AskMyPages – AI Search & Chat

AskMyPages is AI search and chat for WordPress, run as a hosted service by Hook & Plug. It works on any site: a blog, a business site, a members' site, a documentation site or a knowledge base built with Echo Knowledge Base, BetterDocs, Heroic KB or weDocs. It upgrades the search box your theme already has to find pages by meaning, and adds an assistant that answers visitors' questions from your own pages and text PDFs, citing the page or PDF page every time. When your site doesn't cover something, it says so instead of guessing.

• Search and chat, not a chat bubble alone: your existing search box and results page get better; the chat is optional.
• PDFs included: handbooks, agreements, policies and price lists in your Media Library are searched and answered from, with the page number.
• Every answer cites its source, so visitors (and you) can check it in one click.
• Flat plans, no surprise bills: a free plan with no card, then fixed monthly caps; never per-token charges or prepaid credit.
• Your theme, your colours: match the site, or pick Light or Dark and your own accent and picture.
• Private by design: only the content you choose is sent, public unless you mark it members-only; nothing is used to train AI models; disconnecting deletes your index.

Set-up takes about a minute: install, click Connect, tick the content types. Search that understands what people mean Your theme's existing search box and results page stay exactly as they are. AskMyPages decides which results show and in what order, matching meaning as well as exact words, so "help paying for a course" finds your education fund page. If the service is ever unavailable, WordPress search takes over automatically. Answers from your content, with sources A chat button appears on every page (on by default; turn it off any time). Visitors ask a question and get a short answer from your pages and PDFs, with numbered links to the sources. Follow-up questions work. If your content doesn't cover something, the assistant says so instead of guessing. On the search results page, an answer card above the results turns the search into a short answer in one click, and follow-up questions continue in the chat. PDFs included Text PDFs in your Media Library become searchable too: agreements, handbooks, policies, menus. Answers link to the right page of the PDF. Made for site owners, not developers

• No API keys to copy and no AI account to set up: click Connect, sign in with your email, done.
• A short Getting started checklist and a "Try it" box to test answers before visitors see them.
• The chat takes your theme's colours, font and button shape, or a colour you choose.
• Change what the chat says: the button, the question box and its messages.
• Choose what goes into search: content types, categories to leave out, and a "Leave this out" box on each post, page and PDF.
• Choose who may use the search upgrade and the chat: everyone, logged-in users, or chosen roles. On paid plans, mark content members-only and it is answered from only for logged-in users with an allowed role.
• Change what the chat says, give the assistant a name, greeting and suggested questions, and place the chat inside a page with a shortcode.
• A connection check, also in Tools → Site Health, that spots hosting problems and explains the fix.

No surprise bills Every plan has a monthly allowance of searches and AI answers, a limit on questions per visitor per day, and a spending cap. When the month's answers are used, the chat pauses and search keeps working; you get an email at 80% and 100%. Plans: Free and Starter Everything in the plugin works on every plan. The AskMyPages service's Free plan covers one site with 500 items (posts, pages and up to 150 PDF pages or 50 MB of PDFs), 1,000 searches and 100 AI answers a month, with no card. AskMyPages Starter is for small business sites, associations and blogs: 5,000 items, 2,500 PDF pages, 25,000 searches and 3,000 AI answers a month, custom post types and WooCommerce products in search, meaning search updated as soon as you publish, a choice of answer tone, answers from chosen categories only, and a monthly budget cap you control. $29 a month or $290 a year, cancel any time. AskMyPages Business ($39 a month) is for document-heavy sites and stores: 10,000 items, 10,000 PDF pages and 2 GB of PDFs, 50,000 searches and 6,000 AI answers a month. Buy either on the website and install the plugin afterwards, or upgrade from the plugin's own screen once it is connected. Pro and Agency plans (more sites, search analytics, white label) are arranged directly: hookandplug.com/askmypages. Your content is never used to train AI models.

1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New, search for "AskMyPages", then install and activate it.
2. Open AskMyPages in the admin menu and click Connect.
3. Sign in to Hook & Plug with your email address (you get a sign-in link; no password) and approve the connection.
4. Back in WordPress, your published content is prepared in the background. Follow the Getting started checklist.

Requirements: WordPress 6.4 or later, PHP 8.1 or later, and a host that allows outgoing HTTPS requests. WP-Cron must run (it does on most sites; the connection check tells you if it doesn't).

0.10.0

• Optional anonymous result-click recording, off by default in the Search tab. Records result IDs, positions and first clicks against each search for up to 90 days, without visitor identifiers or cookies. Requires the site owner's opt-in; respects Do Not Track, Global Privacy Control and consent-manager vetoes. The platform Questions log shows click-through and zero-click metrics.

0.9.5

• Access tab: choose who may use the search box upgrade and the chat (everyone, logged-in users, chosen roles). Members-only content (Starter and above): mark pages, posts, PDFs or whole categories as members-only, include private and password-protected pages, and the service answers from them only for logged-in users with an allowed role, in search and chat. The edit-screen box is now "Exclude from AskMyPages" with a "Members only" mark.

0.9.4

• Skipped PDFs name the plan's PDF page and storage allowance; the listing describes the Business plan.

0.9.3

• Settings and, on the Free plan, Upgrade to Starter links in the Plugins list; the listing describes the Free and Starter plans.

0.9.2

• An Upgrade to Starter button in the plugin header and a Starter card on the Overview tab for sites on the Free plan; it opens the plan's checkout in your Hook & Plug account.

0.9.1

• Works on PHP 7.4 and newer (was 8.1), for sites still on older hosting. Tested on PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 and newer.

0.9.0

• First release on WordPress.org. Everything from the 0.8 series: search by meaning in your theme's own search box, the answer card on search results, the chat with its rounded design, picture and colour choices, text PDFs, the Content tab with per-item status and re-index, the connection check, and the one-click connection to a Hook & Plug account.

0.8.15

• Chat colours: choose Match my site, Light or Dark, with an optional accent colour in any of them. "Match my site" now samples the content area rather than the page body and never pairs text and background that do not read well together.

0.8.14

• When a site is disconnected from the account portal or by an administrator, the plugin notices on its next request, turns search and chat off, and explains why, with Connect offered again.

0.8.13

• A single request for a WordPress.org review on the plugin's Overview tab once visitors have had 25 answers in a month; dismissed with one click and never shown again.

0.8.12

• Friendlier example questions in the admin and the listing.

0.8.11

• Chat: a picture for the assistant (AskMyPages → Chat → Look → Picture): your site icon by default, any image from the Media Library, or none. Shown as a circle in the chat header and on the button.

0.8.10

• Chat: keyboard focus rings follow the rounded shapes; the text box no longer shows a square outline inside the rounded composer.

0.8.9

• Chat redesign: a rounded button and window, the assistant's name with a short subtitle, questions and answers as messages, typing dots while an answer is written, and numbered source cards. Still uses your site's colours and font.
• Chat is on for visitors by default once connected; turn it off any time under AskMyPages → Chat.

0.8.8

• New name: AskMyPages (previously AskMyPress). Plugin slug, text domain, shortcodes, settings and WP-CLI command are now askmypages.

0.8.7

• Every feature in the plugin works on every plan: chat visibility by role, all wording, the assistant's name, greeting and suggested questions, answering question-like searches, and placing the chat in a page. Plan limits are applied by the AskMyPages service.
• "Powered by AskMyPages" under the chat is off unless the site owner turns it on (AskMyPages → Chat → Look).
• All content types can be chosen; the service indexes custom post types on paid plans.
• Connecting: a declined connection is cancelled only when the returned one-time state matches.

0.8.6

• An Items list on the Content tab: every item in search and chat with its state (in search, being prepared, no readable text, failed and why), a "Problems only" filter, and a Re-index button that sends an item again.
• Items that failed are retried when sent again unchanged, and items stuck waiting are queued again.

0.8.5

• The bundled Action Scheduler library (unchanged, 4.2.0) moved to vendor/woocommerce/action-scheduler, with a composer.json naming it.

0.8.4

• "Paid plans" labels link to the plans, and the answer-limit, item-limit and paid-feature notes on AskMyPages screens include a "See plans" link. Paid plans get "Manage plan" in the header.
• A note on the Overview when the plan's item limit is almost reached or reached.

0.8.3

• Phones: the open chat fits the screen above the keyboard instead of being pushed up by it, the page behind it no longer scrolls, and it leaves room for the notch and home bar.
• Phones: the question box no longer zooms the page when tapped, and the send button always fits.

0.8.2

• The posts page (for example "Blog" or "News") is no longer sent: it shows the list of posts, which are indexed one by one, so it was wrongly flagged as having no readable text.
• "Chat and answers" replaces the old "Ask AI" heading.
• The item estimate on the Content tab no longer counts the posts page.

0.8.1

• "Upgrade" and "See plans" open the AskMyPages page of your Hook & Plug account.

0.8.0

• Wording settings in AskMyPages → Chat: change the chat button, question box, note under answers and the "couldn't find an answer" message on any plan; the remaining messages (search answer card, daily limit, busy, paused) on paid plans.

0.7.2

• No divider above the first question when a conversation moves from the answer card to the chat.

0.7.1

• A follow-up typed in the search answer card opens the chat, with the conversation carried over.
• The answer card lines up with the search results instead of spanning the page.
• "Powered by" shows the AskMyPages logo only, on its own line below the disclaimer.

0.7.0

• Search results get an answer card above the results: one click answers the search, and follow-up questions continue in the card.
• Answers speak as part of your site instead of referring to "this site", and questions like "what else is useful for me?" are answered.
• Citation numbers run 1, 2, 3 in the order they appear and match the Sources list; answers that cite nothing show no sources.
• "Powered by" shows the AskMyPages and Hook & Plug logos (Free plan).

0.6.0

• Getting started checklist on the Overview, and a setup notice after activation.
• Connection check on AskMyPages → Connection and in Tools → Site Health: reaching the service, server clock, background jobs and loopback requests, each with a plain-language fix.
• The plugin reports its version to the service, and shows a notice if an update is needed to keep working.
• Code checked against the WordPress coding standards and Plugin Check.
• Content types written by visitors (forums, Q&A) are marked with a warning on the Content tab.
• The assistant stays on topic, ignores instructions planted in content, and refuses harmful requests.

0.5.0

• AskMyPages has its own menu in WordPress admin, with Overview, Content, Search, Chat and Connection.
• AI answers and chat: a chat button on every page and "Ask about…" on search results, answering only from your content with links to the sources. Off until you turn it on.
• PDFs from the Media Library are searchable, and answers link to the right page.
• The chat takes your theme's colours, font and button shape (or a colour you pick), opens and closes with a subtle animation, and sits bottom right or left.
• Disconnecting also deletes your content from the service.
• "Try it" in AskMyPages → Chat: ask test questions (50 a month) without using your visitors' answers.
• Limit questions per visitor per day (default 20).
• Choose who may use search and chat: everyone, logged-in users, or chosen roles.
• Paid plans: assistant name, greeting, tone and suggested questions; [askmypages_chat] to place the chat in a page, optionally answering only from chosen categories.

0.4.0

• Choose what goes into search: content types (custom types such as products on paid plans), categories to leave out, and a "leave this out" box on each post and page.
• Search understands meaning as well as exact words.

0.3.0

• Your theme's search results page shows AskMyPages results in best-match order, falling back to WordPress search if the service is unavailable or the monthly search limit is reached.

0.2.0

• Sync published posts and pages in the background, with a daily check for anything missed.

0.1.0

• Connect and disconnect your site.