Answyr is AI-powered customer support for WordPress, end to end — from
self-serve AI chat that deflects common questions to AI-assisted replies that help
your agents respond faster. It all runs on one shared AI core, grounded in a
knowledge base you own and control.
- AI Chat — a front-end deflection widget that answers visitors from your knowledge base (with source links) and escalates into a ticket when a human is needed.
- Knowledge Base — a built-in, customizable knowledge base that grounds every AI answer. Keep it internal for the AI and your agents, or publish it for customers with a shortcode.
- AI-assisted agent replies — an AI ticket inbox (Desk) that drafts replies grounded in your knowledge base, with a full ticket lifecycle and a customer portal.
Bring your own AI provider key (Anthropic or OpenAI). Keys are encrypted at rest.
Features
- Ticket lifecycle — open → pending → resolved → closed. Agent replies auto-set pending; customer replies reopen; customers can resolve or reopen from the portal.
- Triage — priority (low/normal/high/urgent), free-form tags, status/priority/tag filters, keyword search, pagination. The inbox is ordered urgent-first.
- Productivity — AI draft-and-vet, saved (canned) replies, internal team-only notes, ⌘/Ctrl+Enter to send.
- Customer portal — inline sign-in, create/see/reply to tickets, Open/Closed filter, 👍/👎 satisfaction (CSAT) on resolved tickets.
- Chat deflection widget — answers from your knowledge base with source links, and escalates to a ticket (with transcript) when needed. Customizable title, welcome copy, placeholder, accent color, and display mode (sitewide or shortcode).
- Brand theming — an accent color themes the chat widget and the customer portal; admin screens stay native.
- Insights — read-only metrics: volume, new tickets (7/30 days), average first-response time, satisfaction, and a by-status breakdown.
- Customizable knowledge base — a native knowledge base grounds every AI draft and chat answer; internal by default, publishable to customers. You can also point the AI at existing content (any post types you choose).
AI providers
Anthropic and OpenAI ship built-in. You configure your own API key per provider
and choose the active provider/model in settings. The architecture is
multi-provider by design, so additional providers can be registered.
- Upload the
answyr folder to /wp-content/plugins/, or install via the Plugins screen.
- Activate the plugin. This creates the ticket tables and seeds defaults.
- Go to Answyr → Settings, choose an AI provider, and paste your API key.
- Enable the surfaces you want (Desk is on by default; Chat is off until configured).
- Add the
[answyr_portal] shortcode to a page for the customer portal, and [answyr_chat] if you use shortcode display for the chat widget.
Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.0+.
1.0.0
Initial public release.
- AI Chat — a front-end deflection widget that answers visitors from your knowledge base with source links, and escalates into a ticket (with transcript) when a human is needed. Customizable title, welcome copy, placeholder, accent color, and display mode.
- Knowledge Base — a native, customizable knowledge base that grounds every AI answer. Internal by default; publish it for customers with the
[answyr_kb] shortcode. You can also ground the AI on existing content (post types you choose).
- Desk — an AI ticket inbox with AI draft-and-vet replies, a full lifecycle (open → pending → resolved → closed), triage (priority, tags, filters, keyword search), saved replies, internal notes, and an Insights dashboard.
- Customer portal — inline sign-in; create, view, and reply to tickets; Open/Closed filter; 👍/👎 satisfaction on resolved tickets. Themed by your accent color.
- Bring your own AI provider key — Anthropic or OpenAI, encrypted at rest. No AI calls are made until you add a key.