Description
BuddyBot is a powerful WordPress AI plugin that enables you to create custom AI Chatbots and deploy them as chat agents on your WordPress website. Leveraging OpenAI Assistant capabilities, these Chatbots are trained using your site’s data, including posts and comments, to provide site-specific information to your visitors.
Key Features
- Create AI Assistants: Easily create and manage AI Chatbots directly from your WordPress admin area.
- Train with Site Data: Train Chatbots with your site’s posts and comments in just one click.
- Frontend Deployment: Use a simple shortcode to publish a Chatbot on any page or post, allowing visitors to interact with AI chat agents.
- Bootstrap Integration: The plugin utilizes the Bootstrap framework for its layout and design, ensuring a responsive and consistent user interface across devices.
Use Cases
- Provide live, site-specific answers to visitor’s support queries.
- Enhance user engagement with AI-driven chat conversations.
- Automate support based on your website’s posts and comments.
OpenAI Integration
BuddyBot AI integrates with OpenAI to provide advanced AI assistant capabilities. Under the following circumstances, data is sent to OpenAI servers:
- Training Assistants: When you combine and upload your site’s posts and comments to OpenAI storage, this data is used to train your AI assistants.
- User Interactions: During interactions between website visitors and BuddyBots, the content of the conversations may be sent to OpenAI to generate responses.
Important Links:
Please review these documents to understand how OpenAI handles your data.
Requirements
- An OpenAI account and API key are required to use the BuddyBot plugin. You can sign up for an OpenAI account at OpenAI’s website.
- Once you have an account, you need to obtain an API key to configure the plugin.
Getting Started
- Create an OpenAI Account: Visit OpenAI’s website to sign up for an account if you don’t already have one.
- Generate an API Key: After signing up, log in to your OpenAI account and generate an API key. You will need this key to configure the BuddyBot plugin.
- Configure the Plugin: Enter your OpenAI API key in the plugin settings page in your WordPress admin dashboard to enable the plugin’s functionality.
Installation
- Upload the
buddybot-ai
folder to the/wp-content/plugins/
directory. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Navigate to the BuddyBot AI admin pages to create and configure your assistants.
- Use the provided shortcode to place the BuddyBots on your site frontend.
FAQ
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How do I create an AI assistant?
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Navigate to the BuddyBot Assistants page, and click on ‘Create New Assistant’.
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How do I upload my site content for training?
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Use the ‘Data Sync’ feature in the admin area to combine and upload your site’s posts and comments to OpenAI storage.
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What data is sent to OpenAI?
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When creating and training assistants, the data you choose to upload (such as site posts and comments) is sent to OpenAI servers. Additionally, during interactions between visitors and BuddyBots, conversation data may be sent to OpenAI to generate responses.
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Does the plugin use any external frameworks?
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Yes, BuddyBot AI uses the Bootstrap framework for its layout and design, providing a responsive and modern user interface.
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Contributors & Developers
“BuddyBot – AI Chatbot and Chat Support Agent for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.3.3: february 05, 2025
- Improved: OpenAI API key changing process.
- Fixed: OpenAI API key is no longer visible in the Settings area.
- Improved: Made helptext and notices more relevant and descriptive.
- Improved: AI Training Knowledgebase creation workflow under the hood.
1.0.3.2: January 29, 2025
- Improved: Initial workflow.
1.0.3.1: January 23, 2025
- Improved: Options Helptexts
1.0.3.0: January 17, 2025
- UI improvements and fixes
1.0.2.0: January 13, 2025
- Added: Welcome Modal
- Multiple bug fixes.
1.0.1.0: December 26, 2024
- Fixed: Minor improvements to help-texts.
- Multiple bug fixes.
- Fixed: Compatibility issues with the PHP 8.0.
- UI improvements.