WP Craft Engineer

<p>WPCraftEngineer AI Knowledge Base lets site owners create a searchable support knowledge base and display AI-powered search or chat widgets on the frontend. The plugin stores knowledge base entries in your WordPress database and sends visitor questions plus relevant knowledge base content to the AI provider selected in the plugin settings.</p>
<p>The plugin is not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google. You must provide your own API key for the provider you choose.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Natural language knowledge base search.</li>
<li>Chat widget that answers from saved knowledge base entries.</li>
<li>Admin-managed entries, collections, and basic analytics.</li>
<li>Optional query logging in the WordPress database.</li>
<li>Configurable provider: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, or Google Gemini.</li>
<li>Shortcodes and sidebar widget support.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<pre><code>[wpcfe_aikb] Full widget with search and chat.
[wpcfe_aikb collection="HR Policies"] Full widget filtered by collection.
[wpcfe_aikb_chat] Chat only.
[wpcfe_aikb_chat collection="Support FAQs"] Chat filtered by collection.
[wpcfe_aikb_search] Search only.
</code></pre>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 6.0 or newer.</li>
<li>PHP 8.0 or newer.</li>
<li>Your own API key for Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin can connect to third-party AI services when an administrator configures an API key and a visitor or administrator uses the search, chat, provider test, or auto-classification features. The plugin sends the user’s question or test prompt, relevant knowledge base entry content, and selected model details to the configured AI provider so that the provider can generate search results, classifications, or chat answers.</p>
<h4>Anthropic Claude</h4>
<p>When Anthropic is selected, the plugin sends prompts, visitor questions, conversation history, and relevant knowledge base content to the Anthropic API at <code>https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages</code>. This is used to generate answers, classify entries, and test the configured provider connection.</p>
<p>Service provider: Anthropic PBC.<br />
Terms: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms<br />
Privacy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy</p>
<h4>OpenAI</h4>
<p>When OpenAI is selected, the plugin sends prompts, visitor questions, conversation history, and relevant knowledge base content to the OpenAI API at <code>https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions</code>. This is used to generate answers, classify entries, and test the configured provider connection.</p>
<p>Service provider: OpenAI, L.L.C.<br />
Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use<br />
Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy</p>
<h4>Google Gemini</h4>
<p>When Google Gemini is selected, the plugin sends prompts, visitor questions, conversation history, and relevant knowledge base content to the Google Gemini Generative Language API at <code>https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/...:generateContent</code>. This is used to generate answers, classify entries, and test the configured provider connection.</p>
<p>Service provider: Google LLC.<br />
Terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms<br />
Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
<p>No third-party AI request is made unless an administrator has entered an API key and uses or enables a feature that requires the selected provider.</p>


WPCraftEngineer AI Knowledge Base

Create AI-powered searchable knowledge base widgets using your own configured AI provider API key.

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<h3>WordPress Knowledge Base plugin</h3>
<p>MinervaKB is flexible and powerful WordPress knowledge base plugin. It helps you to create a simple, yet powerful helpdesk or FAQ solution. You can add articles, organise them into topics and build a home page with AJAX live search for your customers to find their answers quickly. Use box or list layout with predefined design and styles. Dedicated search results page is also present. Using plugin as opposed to dedicated knowledge base theme also helps SEO of your main site greatly, as you don’t need to move your help content to subdomain.</p>
<p>You can check the demo here: <a href="http://demo-lite.minerva-kb.com/" title="Knowledge base for WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">Minerva Knowledge Base Lite demo</a></p>
<p>MinervaKB Lite key features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Powerful, yet easy to use</li>
<li>Fast live AJAX search</li>
<li>Beautiful design</li>
<li>Unlimited articles and topics</li>
<li>Drag n drop topic selection on home page</li>
<li>List and box view</li>
<li>Font Awesome icons selector for articles and topics</li>
<li>Fully responsive</li>
<li>Intuitive options panel</li>
<li>Estimated reading time in articles</li>
<li>Views count in articles</li>
<li>Dynamic breadcrumbs</li>
<li>Customizeable URL slugs (via post type setting)</li>
<li>Recent topics and articles widgets</li>
<li>Nested topics support</li>
<li>Dedicated sidebars for home, topics, tags, search results page and articles pages</li>
<li>Easy localisation from options panel</li>
<li>Uses custom post types, so your content is not locked to plugin</li>
<li>Developer friendly – lots of actions in templates</li>
<li>Styles options</li>
<li>Quick, tested on many commercial sites and with many different themes</li>
<li>Clean code </li>
</ul>
<p>Plugin is developer-friendly. We use many actions in templates and you can even copy template files to your theme and override plugin templates! To do so, create minerva-kb folder in the root of your theme and copy files from plugins/minervakb/lib/templates there. But this is optional, as you can modify templates via actions.</p>
<p>In case you need to use this plugin in language other than English, no localisation plugin or additional effort is required, as all the strings used on client-side are available to edit in options panel.</p>
<p>We tested MinervaKB Lite on many free and premium themes and it works surprisingly well with most of them. So it should work with any theme coded according to WordPress standards and respecting WordPress template hierarchy.</p>
<p>If you like this plugin and find it useful, you really should check the PRO version at <a href="https://www.minerva-kb.com/" title="Knowledge base for WordPress with Analytics" rel="nofollow ugc">MinervaKB – Knowledge base for WordPress with Analytics</a>.</p>
<p>It has all the features of Lite plus:</p>
<ul>
<li>Built-in Analytics dashboard</li>
<li>7 beautiful search themes</li>
<li>Articles ratings and feedback</li>
<li>KB home page builder</li>
<li>Dynamic table of contents in articles with ScrollSpy</li>
<li>Content restriction by user role</li>
<li>Related articles</li>
<li>Articles drag-n-drop reorder</li>
<li>Extended styles and typography options</li>
<li>Dynamic topics (most liked, most viewed, recent)</li>
<li>Custom settings for each topic, such as images, colors and icons</li>
<li>Content shortcodes, like tip, related links, warning and others</li>
<li>Search on article and topic pages</li>
<li>Options, options and more options. You can configure almost everything from options panel</li>
<li>Google Analytics integration</li>
<li>Professional quick support</li>
<li>Regular updates and bugfixes</li>
<li>…many more</li>
</ul>


MinervaKB Lite

MinervaKB Lite is a fully responsive knowledge base plugin for WordPress with live search.

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