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GoldenRetriever AI Chat turns your WordPress site into a 24\/7 AI chatbot \u2014 an advisor that talks like you and answers visitor questions grounded in your own content. Drop a chat widget on any page, or flip on the site-wide floating bubble. Your visitors get answers about your products, policies and posts in seconds \u2014 no live-chat staffing, no monthly SaaS fees, no third-party service holding your conversation history. You pay your AI provider directly for the tokens you use; the plugin adds no per-message charge of its own.<\/p>\n\n
You bring your own Anthropic API key for Claude. The plugin sends your visitors' messages and a system prompt grounded in your site content directly to Anthropic \u2014 never to a SaaS vendor in the middle. Conversations are rate-limited, capability-gated and origin-checked at the REST layer; the API key is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM tied to your WordPress salts.<\/p>\n\n
Built for non-technical site owners.<\/strong> Five-minute setup from \"install\" to \"ask my first question.\" Native WordPress UI, Gutenberg block, classic shortcode, sensible defaults for every option, and a built-in Test Chat panel so you can sanity-check the advisor before any visitor sees it.<\/p>\n\n Features in this free release<\/strong><\/p>\n\n How it works in three steps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n What's coming in GoldenRetriever AI Chat Pro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The free version is the chat surface. Pro adds OpenAI and Gemini providers, multi-persona advisors, PDF\/DOCX\/CSV file knowledge with embeddings retrieval, lead routing to your inbox\/CRM with full conversation context, and white-labelling \u2014 all as a separate plugin you install alongside the free version. No data migration, no breakage. Voice conversations are on the longer-term roadmap as a future Pro+ release.<\/p>\n\n This plugin connects to third-party services that you configure and pay for\ndirectly with your own API keys. It includes no central service operated by us.<\/p>\n\n Your chosen AI provider (Anthropic Claude \u2014 api.anthropic.com).\nWhen a visitor sends a chat message, the plugin sends the conversation and\nthe relevant excerpts of your site content to the AI provider you configured,\nusing the API key you entered, and streams the reply back. This happens only\non an explicit chat action. Data sent: the visitor's messages and the matched\nsite-content excerpts. Anthropic terms: https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/legal\/commercial-terms\n\u2014 privacy: https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/legal\/privacy<\/p><\/li>\n Administrator-added knowledge-source URLs (your server \u2192 the URL you enter).\nWhen a site administrator adds a URL as a knowledge source on the Knowledge\ntab, the plugin fetches that URL directly from your server (using WordPress's\nbuilt-in wp_safe_remote_get(), which blocks private\/internal addresses). The\nrequest goes from your server to the public URL you entered; no data is sent\nto any third party in the process. Only administrators (manage_options) can\nadd or refresh sources.<\/p><\/li>\n \"Email me this chat\" lead capture (your site's database only).\nWhen a visitor opts in to receive a transcript of their chat conversation\nby email, the plugin stores their email address in your site's own\ndatabase (table wp_grchat_leads). No data is sent to us or any third\nparty. The transcript email is sent via your site's own wp_mail() function,\nusing your server's configured mail transport. The visitor's email address\nis stored only with their explicit consent, and only on your own server.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n Apart from the administrator-initiated knowledge-source fetch above, the only\noutbound HTTP calls are to your chosen AI provider, and only on explicit user\naction. The plugin does not use embeddings (Anthropic provides no embeddings\nAPI); semantic\/embeddings retrieval is a separate Pro feature, not in this\nfree plugin.<\/p>\n\n\n No. If you can install a WordPress plugin from the admin, you can install GoldenRetriever AI Chat. The setup is a paste-a-key-and-save flow; the Connection Test tab tells you exactly what to do if anything is off \u2014 usually it's a one-line message to send your hosting provider.<\/p><\/dd>\n The free version uses Claude (Anthropic). Pro adds OpenAI (GPT) and Gemini (Google) as alternative providers. You bring the API key for whichever provider you choose; there is no markup, you pay your provider directly.<\/p><\/dd>\n For a small business site receiving roughly 30 advisor conversations a day, expect \u00a35\u2013\u00a315 per month with Claude Sonnet 4.6 (the recommended default). Claude Haiku is cheaper for higher volumes; Opus is more expensive but more capable. Anthropic bills you directly per token used.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The widget inherits your theme's primary colour (via Inside your WordPress database. The plugin doesn't have a server. It doesn't see your content, your visitors, or your conversations. The only outbound traffic is the API call to Anthropic that you authorise by configuring an API key. Conversation history isn't stored server-side beyond a per-session browser cookie that lets visitors continue a conversation across page loads.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The Test Chat tab in the admin lets you run real conversations against your configured model end-to-end, without any visitor seeing the widget. The Knowledge tab also includes a Test Retrieval panel that shows you which posts the advisor would quote for a given query.<\/p><\/dd>\n The key is encrypted with AES-256-GCM tied to your WordPress salts before it's written to the database, and the option is stored with The plugin enforces a per-IP rate limit (30 messages\/hour by default) and a global rate limit (200 messages\/hour by default) before any call to Anthropic. Both limits are filterable. The widget also caps individual messages at 4,096 characters and conversations at 20 messages.<\/p><\/dd>\n Conversations go directly from your visitor's browser through your WordPress site to Anthropic and back. They are not logged on disk, not analytics-tracked, not sent to any third-party server we operate (we don't have one). Anthropic processes the messages per their published privacy policy.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. GoldenRetriever AI Chat runs each post through If you want to exclude a specific post from the index (for example, a page you keep published for internal reasons), use the Some sites store their visible copy in shortcodes or page-builder plugins (Elementor, Divi, Bricks, a \"Custom Code\" plugin, etc.) that only register their handlers on front-end requests. In that context WordPress leaves the shortcode tags unexpanded, so the index sees GoldenRetriever AI Chat handles this automatically: during indexing it fetches each public page via its own front-end URL (a \"loopback self-fetch\"), strips the chrome (navigation, header, footer, sidebars, scripts), and indexes whichever version is richer \u2014 the admin-context render or the fetched page. Your homepage is covered too, even when it is a custom theme template, via an auto-created \"Homepage (auto)\" URL source. No configuration is needed \u2014 run a full Reindex (Knowledge tab \u2192 Reindex all content) and the advisor picks up the visitor-facing copy.<\/p>\n\n Each post needs one HTTP fetch during a reindex (and one when you save it), so a reindex of a large site runs in the background; it is resumable, so you can leave it and come back. Developer filters to skip the fetch, opt out of the auto homepage source, or force the fetched version for specific posts are available \u2014 see the plugin's developer documentation.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes \u2014 Pro adds OpenAI + Gemini providers, multi-persona advisors, file-upload knowledge (PDF\/DOCX\/TXT\/MD\/CSV) with embeddings retrieval, lead routing to your inbox\/CRM with full conversation context, and white-labelling. It installs as a separate plugin and works alongside the free version. The free plugin keeps working forever \u2014 Pro never holds it hostage. 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GoldenRetriever AI Chat<\/code> block, or [grchat_chat]<\/code> shortcode; inherits your theme's colours and fonts automatically.<\/li>\n--wp--preset--color--primary<\/code> and your body font where the theme exposes them; falls back to a neutral palette.<\/li>\nthe_content<\/code> so shortcodes and page-builder output become searchable text, then chunked into a MySQL FULLTEXT index.<\/li>\nwp_safe_remote_get()<\/code>) or upload .txt<\/code> \/ .md<\/code> files to extend the knowledge base.<\/li>\n\n
[grchat_chat]<\/code> shortcode \/ GoldenRetriever AI Chat block on any page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\nExternal services<\/h3>\n\n
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.zip<\/code> and click Install Now. (Or unzip into \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>.)<\/li>\n[grchat_chat title=\"Ask us anything\"]<\/code> into a post.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Do I need a developer to install this?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Which AI provider does this use?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How much will I actually spend on AI?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does this work with my theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
--wp--preset--color--primary<\/code>) and body font where the theme exposes them, falling back to a neutral indigo + system font stack. It's been verified against Twenty Twenty-Five and the major block themes.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhere does my data live?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I see what the advisor would say before publishing?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How does the plugin protect my Anthropic API key?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
autoload=no<\/code>. The admin UI only ever displays a masked form (\u2022\u2022\u2022\u2022XXXX<\/code>). The plaintext key is read only at the moment a chat is being served.<\/p><\/dd>\nHow does it stop visitors from running up my Anthropic bill?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will my visitors' conversations be private?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How does the content index work \u2014 will page builder content be indexed?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
the_content<\/code> before indexing, which executes shortcodes and page-builder block output exactly the same way WordPress renders them for visitors. This means rendered text \u2014 including prices, product names, or any text generated by shortcodes \u2014 becomes searchable and can be quoted in answers.<\/p>\n\ngrchat_index_render_content<\/code> filter: return false<\/code> for that post's ID and it will be skipped during indexing.<\/p><\/dd>\nWhy doesn't the advisor know about content on my homepage or builder pages?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
[ccj id=\"tabmenu\"]<\/code> instead of real content. The same issue applies to pricing tables, review carousels, or WooCommerce product tabs injected by JavaScript after the raw post content is processed.<\/p>\n\nIs there a Pro version?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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