PlatoDev Content Chat Assistant

Description

PlatoDev Content Chat Assistant adds an intelligent floating chat widget to your website that answers visitor questions directly from your published WordPress posts, pages, and custom post types, powered by a hosted RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) backend.

Key Features

• AI-Powered Chat Widget — Modern floating button opening an interactive conversational assistant
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — Accurate, hallucination-free answers based on your actual site content
• Drawer & Modal Layouts — Freely choose between a floating side panel (Drawer) or centered overlay modal
• Customizable Appearance — Configure colors, icons, greeting messages, animations, and widget position
• Content Synchronization — Select any public post types (posts, pages, WooCommerce products, custom post types) to sync
• Automatic or Manual Sync — Trigger one-click manual synchronization or schedule automated periodic background updates
• Admin-First Configuration — Full control inside your WordPress admin dashboard
• Optional Bot Protection — Optional Cloudflare Turnstile integration to protect your chat against scrapers and spam bots

How It Works

1. Install PlatoDev Content Chat Assistant from the WordPress directory or upload the plugin zip.
2. Go to Settings > PlatoDev Chat in your WordPress admin.
3. Configure your connection keys and customize the widget appearance.
4. Synchronize your published content.
5. Visitors can now chat with an intelligent assistant that knows your website!

External Services

This plugin connects your WordPress site to cloud infrastructure and AI services to generate vector embeddings, index content, and answer visitor questions. The external services utilized are:

1. PlatoDev Cloud Platform / Backend Service

* Service URLs: https://wpaichat.vercel.app and https://sincere-owl-776.convex.site
* Terms of Service: https://wpaichat.vercel.app/privacy
* Privacy Policy: https://wpaichat.vercel.app/privacy
* What data is sent and when:
– Site URL and license key are sent when validating or activating a license.
– Published post and page content (titles, body text, excerpt, permalinks, and post IDs) are transmitted when synchronizing content for semantic vector indexing.
– Visitor chat messages are transmitted to the backend endpoint when a user asks a question in the chat widget.
* Purpose: Stores vector embeddings in the cloud database, executes similarity searches, orchestrates AI responses, and validates licenses.

1. Google Gemini API

* Service URL: https://ai.google.dev/
* Terms of Service: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
* Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
* What data is sent and when: Visitor query text and contextual excerpts of your published posts are sent when an answer is being generated.
* Purpose: Provides large language model (LLM) reasoning and natural language answer generation.

1. Voyage AI

* Service URL: https://www.voyageai.com/
* Terms of Service: https://www.voyageai.com/tos
* Privacy Policy: https://www.voyageai.com/privacy
* What data is sent and when: Post and page content are sent during synchronization.
* Purpose: Computes high-dimensional vector embeddings for fast and accurate semantic retrieval.

1. Cloudflare Turnstile

* Service URL: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/
* Terms of Service: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/
* Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
* What data is sent and when: Visitor browser verification tokens are validated when the chat widget is opened.
* Purpose: Optional CAPTCHA-free bot, spam, and abuse prevention.

Privacy & Data Handling

This plugin sends data to the external backend to provide AI search and chat capabilities:
* License and URL: transmitted during activation and verification.
* Content: published posts/pages are transmitted for semantic vector indexing.
* Chat Queries: visitor questions asked through the chat widget are processed to return contextual answers.

Settings are stored in your WordPress wp_options table and are completely removed upon uninstalling the plugin. For additional information, review your WordPress Privacy Policy guide under Settings > Privacy.