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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.
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.
Developed by LAYERWORKS Co., Ltd.
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.
Main features:
<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>
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.
<h3>External Services</h3>
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.
Service: OpenAI API 
Endpoint used: https://api.openai.com/v1/responses
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.
When OpenAI settings are configured and a visitor sends a message, the plugin may send the following information to OpenAI:
<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>
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI terms and privacy information:
<ul>
<li>https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/</li>
<li>https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/</li>
</ul>
<h3>Chatbot Response Languages</h3>
The chatbot response language is not limited to Japanese and English.
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.
<h3>Plugin Interface Languages</h3>
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.

Layerworks AI Chatbot

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

Ajay

WebberZone

<a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/knowledgebase/" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Base</a> makes building a knowledge base or FAQ for your WordPress site easy, fast, and scalable.
Whether you need a simple FAQ page, a full self-service help center, or a structured multi-product wiki, Knowledge Base scales to fit. Organize articles into products and sections, customize permalinks, and let your customers help themselves: no coding required.
Perfect for:
<ul>
<li>Multi-product companies managing multiple help centers</li>
<li>SaaS platforms with self-service documentation portals</li>
<li>Ecommerce support centres reducing ticket volume</li>
<li>Documentation hubs and internal company wikis</li>
<li>Developers building customer-facing knowledge portals</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a>.
<h3>Powerful features available in the Free version</h3>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited Knowledge Bases: Support as many products as you like, with unlimited sections and sub-sections.</li>
<li>Beautiful, Responsive Layouts: Ships with clean templates powered by the Responsive Grid System.</li>
<li>Customisable Permalinks: View your KB at /knowledgebase/ by default or change the base slugs for articles, sections, products, and tags. Advanced custom permalink structures with dynamic placeholders are available in Pro.</li>
<li>Shortcodes + Gutenberg Blocks: Add KB listings anywhere using [knowledgebase] or use the Knowledge Base block.</li>
<li>Built-in Breadcrumbs: Improve UX and SEO with breadcrumb navigation.</li>
<li>Widgets Included: WZKB Articles, WZKB Sections, WZKB Products, and WZKB Breadcrumbs widgets.</li>
<li>Built-in Caching: Speed up your Knowledge Base without extra plugins. Configurable cache expiry settings are available in Pro.</li>
<li>Multilingual Ready: Full WPML and Polylang compatibility — translate articles, sections, products, and tags; language-aware caching and widgets included out of the box.</li>
<li>Auto Table of Contents: Automatically generate a linked Table of Contents from article headings, with configurable depth and minimum heading threshold.</li>
<li>Live Search Suggestions: Show accessible AJAX search suggestions as visitors type in the Knowledge Base search form.</li>
<li>Related Articles: Display related articles at the bottom of KB articles based on categories and tags.</li>
<li>Alerts: Add attention-grabbing alert boxes with the [kbalert] shortcode or Alerts block.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pro features</h3>
<a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/knowledgebase/#pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Knowledge Base Pro</a> enhances the plugin with advanced features for larger documentation sites, including ratings and feedback, a help widget, a powerful custom permalinks engine, premium layouts, enhanced TOC surfaces, and additional admin tools.
<ul>
<li>Article Rating & Feedback System: Collect binary or 5-star feedback with optional follow-up questions, admin alerts, Bayesian sorting, and GDPR-friendly tracking modes.</li>
<li>Help Widget: Offer an in-app support hub with live search, suggested articles, and a contact form inside a floating assistant.</li>
<li>Custom Permalinks Engine: Craft advanced URL structures for articles, sections, tags, and products using dynamic placeholders.</li>
<li>Knowledge Base Homepage Mode: Display the Knowledge Base on your site homepage. The Knowledge Base URL becomes the homepage and the Knowledge Base archive URL redirects to the homepage.</li>
<li>Premium Layout Pack: Unlock seven additional frontend styles (Modern, Minimal, Boxed, Gradient, Compact, Magazine, Professional).</li>
<li>Enhanced Table of Contents: Three Pro TOC delivery surfaces — a sidebar widget that renders the TOC for the current article, a Gutenberg block to insert the TOC inline, and a floating/sticky panel that follows the reader down the page.</li>
<li>Advanced Admin Tools: Control knowledge base caching with expiry settings, on-demand cache clearing, and other productivity enhancements.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Concepts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Articles: Custom post type <code>wz_knowledgebase</code>: your FAQs, how-to guides, and documentation.</li>
<li>Products: Custom taxonomy <code>wzkb_product</code>: link articles to one or more products.</li>
<li>Sections: Custom taxonomy <code>wzkb_category</code>: organize content neatly into categories.</li>
<li>Tags: Optional <code>wzkb_tag</code> taxonomy: make finding content even easier.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
If you have an idea, I’d love to hear it. WebberZone Knowledge Base is also available on <a href="https://github.com/WebberZone/knowledgebase" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. You can <a href="https://github.com/WebberZone/knowledgebase/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">create an issue on the Github page</a> or, better yet, fork the plugin, add a new feature and send me a pull request.

Knowledge Base

The plugin is great, it comes with everything that you need for a good knowledge base. Using it with Ultimate Member will give you the ability to control visibility of articles and other stuff.

Everything that you need for a good knowledge base

Build a multi-product knowledge base for WordPress. Reduce support tickets with self-service docs, FAQs, and a built-in help center.

Layerworks AI Chatbot vs Knowledge Base