layerworks2026

<p>Layerworks AI Chatbot adds an AI chatbot to WordPress sites. It is designed for small businesses, shops, local organizations, and service websites that want to answer visitor questions based on reviewed site knowledge.</p>
<p>The plugin uses administrator-reviewed basic knowledge and supplemental knowledge collected from published content to answer visitor questions based on the site. Basic knowledge is created from selected published pages, then reviewed and saved by an administrator. Supplemental knowledge can be collected from published posts and custom post types.</p>
<p>Developed by LAYERWORKS Co., Ltd.</p>
<p>This plugin does not automatically train or fine-tune an AI model from conversations. Administrators review site content and inquiry records manually. Basic usage counts are shown from saved logs.</p>
<p>Main features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chat widget for the front end</li>
<li>Safe readable formatting for chatbot replies, including lists, bold text, and links</li>
<li>OpenAI Responses API integration</li>
<li>Separate OpenAI model settings for chat responses and knowledge design</li>
<li>Basic knowledge setup from selected published pages with editable review flow</li>
<li>Editable fixed knowledge sections</li>
<li>Background supplemental knowledge collection from published posts and custom post types</li>
<li>Protected terms to keep product names, service names, and brand names unchanged</li>
<li>Widget position and margin adjustment to avoid overlap with fixed page buttons</li>
<li>Widget motion effect setting</li>
<li>Bundled chatbot icon selection</li>
<li>Response style selection</li>
<li>Device visibility controls for desktop, tablet, and mobile</li>
<li>Excluded page ID setting to hide the widget on specific posts, pages, and custom posts</li>
<li>Inquiry form and inquiry management screen</li>
<li>Inquiry email notifications with configurable recipient, subject, body, and test sending</li>
<li>Chat log review, search, deletion, and CSV export</li>
<li>Chat log storage retention and cleanup settings</li>
<li>Basic usage insights from saved chat logs</li>
<li>Rate limit and safety settings visibility</li>
<li>Automatic multilingual response handling</li>
<li>English source strings with bundled Japanese translation files</li>
</ul>
<p>The core chatbot, knowledge management, inquiry form, inquiry management, inquiry email notifications, chat log review, CSV export, log storage settings, basic usage insights, and response style features are included in this plugin.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the OpenAI API, using the API key configured by the site administrator, to generate chatbot responses and to help administrators create editable knowledge drafts.</p>
<p>Service: OpenAI API<br />
Endpoint used: https://api.openai.com/v1/responses</p>
<p>The plugin does not send data to OpenAI until an administrator configures an OpenAI API key and uses a feature that requires AI processing, such as a visitor chat response, the admin test chat, the OpenAI connection test, or basic knowledge creation.</p>
<p>When OpenAI settings are configured and a visitor sends a message, the plugin may send the following information to OpenAI:</p>
<ul>
<li>The visitor’s message</li>
<li>Recent conversation history</li>
<li>Basic knowledge configured by the site administrator</li>
<li>Supplemental knowledge collected from published posts and custom post types</li>
<li>Protected terms configured by the site administrator</li>
<li>The current page URL, when it is used as part of the chat context</li>
</ul>
<p>When an administrator creates basic knowledge, the plugin may also send selected published page content, current knowledge sections, protected terms, and the site name and URL to OpenAI.</p>
<p>When an administrator uses the test chat, the test message and the same knowledge context may be sent to OpenAI. Test chat conversations are not stored as chat logs by this plugin.</p>
<p>The OpenAI API key is stored in the WordPress database and is not exposed to visitors. Saved API keys are not printed back into the settings field. The plugin should not automatically include private administrator-only information, such as the WordPress admin email address, in generated knowledge.</p>
<p>OpenAI terms and privacy information:</p>
<ul>
<li>https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/</li>
<li>https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Chatbot Response Languages</h3>
<p>The chatbot response language is not limited to Japanese and English.</p>
<p>The chatbot detects the visitor’s language and tries to answer in the same language where possible. Important business, pricing, contract, disclaimer, and contact information should be based on administrator-configured knowledge and should not be guessed.</p>
<h3>Plugin Interface Languages</h3>
<p>The plugin interface uses English source strings and includes bundled Japanese translation files so that both English-speaking and Japanese site administrators can use it.</p>


Layerworks AI Chatbot

An AI chatbot for WordPress sites. It helps small businesses and site administrators answer visitor questions using reviewed site knowledge.

Freemius

BasePress

Amitkumar Dudhat

<p>Easily create & manage documentation. Reduce support tickets & scale your customer support workload. This simple plugin works with any theme.</p>
<h3>Best Knowledge Base, Docs and Wiki plugin for WordPress</h3>
<p>Create a knowledgebase that provides support even when you’re not around 🤩.</p>
<p>A reliable knowledge base is the cornerstone of any knowledge management strategy. It improves customer service and provides better self-servicing docs, giving customers easy access to instant answers 24/7. As a result support cost is greatly reduced.</p>
<p><a href="https://basepresskb.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">BasePress</a> allows you to organise documentation for clients and employees. Build as many independent knowledge bases as you need to document your products or services out of the box.</p>
<p>This knowledgebase plugin is straightforward to use, thanks to its clear and simple administration tools that integrate seamlessly in the WordPress admin area.</p>
<p>There are three themes to choose from with easy customization and colour branding, and for the coders, full customization via templates.</p>
<p>Check detailed <a href="https://basepresskb.com/docs/knowledge-base/basepress/" rel="nofollow ugc">BasePress Documentation</a>.</p>
<h3>✔ What makes BasePress the right tool for your business?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Ready to use in less than 5 minutes.</li>
<li>A dedicated Wizard to guide you through the set-up procedure.</li>
<li>Create as many independent knowledge bases as you need out of the box.</li>
<li>Keeps your content organized in a logical way dividing it by product, service, department etc.</li>
<li>Serves targeted answers to your customers, saving them time.</li>
<li>Keeps the look of your website professional.</li>
<li>BasePress creates an entry page for your customers where they can choose the knowledge base they want to consult. All the articles, searches and suggestions will be fully relevant to what they are looking for.</li>
<li>Adapts to all devices. Your customers can consult it form any device including tablets and phones.</li>
<li>SEO friendly.</li>
<li>Professional support.</li>
</ul>
<p>This is a Lite version of our Premium plugin that we wanted to share with the WordPress community.<br />
It has all the features you need to create your fully functional knowledge base and nothing less.</p>
<h3>✔ MAIN FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Build a single or multiple knowledge base</li>
<li>A dedicated page for users to choose the knowledge base they want to consult</li>
<li>Unlimited sections hierarchy</li>
<li>List and boxed section styles</li>
<li>Image and description for each knowledge base</li>
<li>Image, icon and description for each section</li>
<li>Icon selector for each article</li>
<li>Icons manager to easily change your icons and use any icon font of your choice</li>
<li>Drag and drop reorder for knowledge bases and sections</li>
<li>Search bar with live results</li>
<li>Shortcode to add the search bar anywhere in your website</li>
<li>Related articles widget</li>
<li>Sections widget</li>
<li>Knowledge bases widget</li>
<li>Easy-to-use admin screens</li>
<li>Translatable via .pot files</li>
<li>Easy customization and colour branding</li>
<li>Three themes included</li>
<li>Use with or without Gutenberg</li>
<li>Create the support desk easily with this self-hosted documentation plugin</li>
</ul>
<p>If you need some extra features for you and your customers consider upgrading to the Premium version and get access to these extra benefits:</p>
<h3>🏆 PREMIUM FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Advanced search bar results based on user votes and visits</li>
<li>Articles voting</li>
<li>Popular articles widget based on votes or visits</li>
<li>Feedback on your KB articles so you can create better docs</li>
<li>Google reCATCHA feature to control spam from the feedback form</li>
<li>Automatic Table of Contents (TOC) in articles and/or widgets</li>
<li>Drag and drop articles reorder</li>
<li>Next and Previous articles navigation</li>
<li>Advanced Content Restriction by user role</li>
<li>Tags support</li>
<li>Knowledge base Statistics</li>
<li>Dashboard widget</li>
<li>Multisite support</li>
<li>Shortcode editor to add dynamic lists of articles outside the knowledge base</li>
<li>Integration with WPML for Multilingual KB</li>
<li>Integration with SearchWP via add-on for advanced searches</li>
<li>Integration with Oxygen Visual Site Builder via add-on</li>
</ul>
<p>See our <a href="https://basepresskb.com/docs/knowledge-base/basepress/" title="Knowledge Base documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">knowledge base & live demo</a></p>
<h3>WHAT CAN YOU USE BASEPRESS FOR</h3>
<ul>
<li>Runbooks</li>
<li>Internal knowledge base for teams and company employees on an intranet</li>
<li>External documentation knowledgebase for customers</li>
<li>Troubleshooting guides</li>
<li>E-commerce websites</li>
<li>Product manuals and wiki</li>
<li>Documentation for schools and colleges</li>
<li>Service or product documentation</li>
<li>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)</li>
<li>Wiki and much more</li>
<li>E-commerce websites</li>
<li>Standards and policies at government and other agencies</li>
<li>eLearning for Schools and colleges</li>
</ul>
<p>Want to unlock the advanced features? <a href="https://basepresskb.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to our Pro version</a></p>
<h3>Support & Product Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li>For detailed plugin documentation visit our <a href="https://basepresskb.com/docs/knowledge-base/basepress/" rel="nofollow ugc">knowledge base</a></li>
<li>If you have any more questions, visit our support on the Plugin’s Forum</li>
<li>For more information about premium version, features etc. visit our website at <a href="https://basepresskb.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">BasePressKB</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Easily create & manage documentation. Reduce support tickets and scale your customer support. This powerful yet simple knowledgebase plugin works with any theme.</p>
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Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs

Great Knowledge base system, great value.

Easy to use

We're using BasePress on iconicwp.com. We chose it because we were able to extend it to cater to our specific needs.

On top of that, the support has been great when required!

Great and Extensible!


I chose this plugin mainly because it allowed multiple products to have their own knowledge base, something that sets this plugin apart from other plugins.It was easy to get going with nice out of the box designs that fitted well.I quickly upgraded to Pro, not that I actually needed the pro features ( nice that they are, the free version does a lot ) but because I want to support the plugin developer as I wanted this plugin to exist for the the long term.Being a plugin developer myself, I haven't need that much support, but when I have asked I have had quality support.Also the code is nicely written, with templates and hooks that make customisation straight forward.


Excellent multi knowledgebase plugin


Cool plugin that rolls together a lot of things you could patch together with other plugins but in an easy-to-use complete package that just works. 


Had an issue, support quickly addressed

Easily create & manage documentation. Reduce support tickets & scale your customer support workload. This simple plugin works with any theme.

Layerworks AI Chatbot vs Knowledge Base documentation & wiki plugin – BasePress Docs