helpshelf

The HelpShelf WordPress Plugin provides a customizable widget service that integrates seamlessly with your WordPress site. This plugin acts as a connector to the HelpShelf service, enabling you to embed a fully customizable help widget on your website.
Key Features: 
* Dynamic Script Insertion: 
 The plugin takes the SITE_ID provided by the user in the WordPress admin panel and automatically injects the required JavaScript code into the section of all pages. 
* HelpShelf Widget Integration: 
 The plugin loads a JavaScript file from a dynamic URL (https://s3.amazonaws.com/helpshelf-production/gen/loader/{SITE_ID}.min.js) hosted on our secure S3 service. This file initializes and identifies the HelpShelf widget, ensuring that any updates or bug fixes are delivered instantly without requiring a new plugin release. 
* Customizable User and Company Attributes: 
 Easily pass custom attributes to HelpShelf for personalized user interactions and enhanced support.
Service Information: 
* This plugin connects to HelpShelf’s widget service 
* The remote script loading is essential for widget functionality because: 
 – It enables real-time widget customization 
 – Allows dynamic updates to widget appearance and behavior 
 – Maintains consistent widget performance across all installations 
* A HelpShelf account is required (sign up at https://helpshelf.com) 
* Your site will connect to our secure AWS S3 servers (helpshelf-production.s3.amazonaws.com) to load the widget
Widget Customization: 
* Fully customizable design to match your brand 
* Flexible color scheme options 
* Adjustable widget positioning and behavior 
* Custom styling options through HelpShelf dashboard
*Technical Details:** 
* Remote Script: The plugin loads your customized widget configuration from our secure servers 
* Server Location: All widget resources are served from helpshelf-production.s3.amazonaws.com 
* Updates: Remote loading ensures your widget always has the latest features and improvements
Account Requirements: 
1. Sign up for a HelpShelf account at https://helpshelf.com 
2. Obtain your unique SITE_KEY from the HelpShelf dashboard 
3. Enter the SITE_KEY in your WordPress plugin settings 
4. Customize your widget design through the HelpShelf
Privacy & Security: 
* All remote scripts are served via HTTPS 
* Our servers are hosted on secure AWS infrastructure 
* Widget configuration is loaded securely
<h3>Additional Information</h3>
By integrating HelpShelf, you agree to allow our plugin to load remote assets essential for delivering our service. For more details on our service and remote asset management, please visit https://helpshelf.com/.

HelpShelf

Short Description: Easily integrate the HelpShelf widget into your WordPress site for enhanced support and streamlined knowledge base access.

gmsspress

gmss-agent adds a customizable floating chat widget to every page of your WordPress site. Visitor questions are answered by matching them against a JSON knowledge-base file you provide. Everything runs locally on your server — no API key, no third-party service, no visitor data sent anywhere.
The plugin is designed for support, FAQ, and lightweight pre-sales conversations where you want answers limited to information you have written and approved.
Features
<ul>
<li>Floating chat widget with configurable title, welcome message, primary color, and corner position (bottom-right or bottom-left).</li>
<li>Local matcher with weighted token-overlap scoring: title hits and explicit keyword hits are ranked above body hits, with a phrase bonus when the visitor’s full query appears in an entry.</li>
<li>Optional <code>keywords</code> array on each entry to handle synonyms the body text does not contain.</li>
<li>Configurable fallback reply when no entry matches the visitor question.</li>
<li>JSON knowledge base loaded from a single <code>knowledgebase.json</code> file at the root of your WordPress install.</li>
<li>Ships with a sample knowledge base so the widget answers something out of the box.</li>
<li>REST endpoint protected by a WordPress nonce.</li>
<li>Translation-ready (text domain: <code>gmss-agent</code>).</li>
</ul>
Requirements
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.8 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
The plugin does not set cookies, does not write to any custom database tables, does not contact any external service, and does not log visitor messages on your server. Settings are stored in the standard WordPress <code>wp_options</code> table and are removed when the plugin is uninstalled via the Plugins screen. The knowledge base file you create is read from disk on each request and is never transmitted off your server.

gmss-agent

Floating chat widget that answers visitor questions from a JSON knowledge base on your own server. No external API, no data leaves your site.

HelpShelf vs gmss-agent