Description
Apar Chatbot reads your website and answers your visitors’ questions from what it finds there. This plugin adds the chat button to every page of your WordPress site, with no code to paste.
What makes it different
- It answers only from your website and what you teach it. When it doesn’t know, it says so instead of guessing.
- It shows you the questions it couldn’t answer, so you can teach it the answer.
- On paid plans, it re-reads your website every week by itself, so its answers stay up to date.
You need an Apar Chatbot account: sign up at aparsoft.com. The free plan needs no card.
Everything about the bot is set in your chatbot dashboard, not here: its name, colours, greeting and what it knows. Changes you save there reach your website by themselves.
External services
This plugin connects to Apar Chatbot, a service run by Aparsoft at www.aparsoft.com. The chat can’t work without it.
- On your public pages, once you have saved a key: visitors’ browsers load the chat from www.aparsoft.com. The service receives the website key, the address and title of the page (without its query string) and the visitor’s IP address. When a visitor uses the chat, it also receives what they type or say.
- On the plugin’s settings page, after you have saved a key: your WordPress site sends the key and your website’s address to www.aparsoft.com to check that the key works here. It repeats this at most once every 5 minutes, and only while the settings page is open.
Nothing is sent before you save a key. Tell your visitors about the chat in your own privacy policy.
Installation
- In your chatbot dashboard, add your website and wait until your bot has read it.
- On the dashboard’s Install page, press Copy API Key.
- In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New, install Apar Chatbot and activate it.
- Go to Settings > Apar Chatbot, paste the key and save.
The page says whether the key is connected. Open your website to see the chat button. If you use a caching plugin, clear its cache first.
FAQ
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Is there a free plan?
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Yes. The plugin is free, and Apar Chatbot has a free plan. Paid plans are on aparsoft.com.
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The page says the key is refused on my website
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Allowed Domains in Chat Window, in your dashboard, doesn’t list this website’s address. Add it there and open the settings page again.
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Does it add a “Powered by” line to my website?
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Not unless you choose to. Settings > Apar Chatbot has a box to show a small “Powered by Aparsoft” line in the chat. It’s off until you tick it.
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Will it slow down my website?
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The chat loads after your page, inside its own frame, so it can’t change your page’s styles.
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Contributors & Developers
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Changelog
1.0.0
- First release: add your key, and the chat button shows on every page.