WPiko AI Chatbot brings OpenAI's latest models to your WordPress site for instant, accurate answers, lead capture, and automated support—without monthly fees. It's fast, flexible, and designed for real business outcomes like resolving FAQs, assisting shoppers, and qualifying leads.
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💬 What you can do
- Provide 24/7 AI support and reduce tickets with precise, on-brand answers
- Train on your site/files for domain-specific answers
- Review conversations and improve AI responses
- Embed a chatbot on any page using a shortcode or show a floating widget site‑wide
🆓 Key features (Free)
- OpenAI Responses API integration for fast, reliable conversations
- Works with the latest models, tailor tone and behavior via instructions
- Full localization: Customize all chatbot interface text, placeholders, and error messages to any language
- Style the interface to match any website's design (colors, dimensions, icons)
- Floating chatbot and shortcode embed:
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- Pre-made quick questions and custom conversation starters
- File uploads for knowledge enrichment (assistant knowledge base)
- Basic conversation management and admin-side conversation export (with translation)
- User transcript download from the chat UI
- Sound notifications, error messages, page exclusion rules
- Secure API key handling
🚀 Pro adds
- Mobile App (PWA) — Monitor and reply to conversations from your phone without opening WordPress
- Admin Takeover — Take over any conversation from AI and chat with the user live in real-time
- Push Notifications — Get notified instantly on your phone when a visitor sends a message
- Advanced analytics and reporting (device, geo, usage graphs)
- Capture emails/leads with customizable localized fields
- Localizable contact form with file attachments and reCAPTCHA support
- Enhanced WooCommerce integration (product cards, product assistance)
- Website content scanning and a Q&A builder for custom knowledge
- Advanced conversation management and cleanup tools
- AI-powered response enhancement for operators
🌍 Any Language & Localization Support
WPiko is designed for a global audience. You can fully customize every text element your visitors see, from the chatbot name and welcome message to input placeholders and error notifications. More importantly, the AI itself is language-agnostic: train it with documents in any language, and it will converse naturally with your users in their preferred tongue.
🔐 Reliable, Fast, Secure
WPiko is optimized for performance and security. The chatbot loads fast, enqueues only essential assets, and protects your customer data.
📱 Mobile-Friendly
WPiko's chatbot adapts seamlessly to phones, tablets, and desktops. Touch‑friendly buttons, adjustable dimensions, and compatibility with common themes and page builders ensure a smooth experience without covering key UI elements. The admin includes a mobile‑friendly navigation.
✅ Get Started with WPiko Chatbot Today
Installing WPiko Chatbot for WordPress takes just a few clicks. Start with our free plugin and upgrade anytime to unlock advanced premium tools.
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WPiko Chatbot
2.0.0
Major update introducing mobile app (PWA) capabilities and real-time admin chat features.
- Feature: Added an unread message badge to the floating chatbot icon
- Feature: Added support for OpenAI models GPT-5.4 Mini and GPT-5.4 Nano in AI Configuration
- Improve: Improved styling of downloaded chatbot transcripts
- Fix: Fixed minor bugs and improved overall stability
- Pro: Introduced Mobile App (PWA) support for monitoring and replying to conversations on mobile
- Pro: Added Admin/Agent Takeover for real-time live chat with visitors
- Pro: Added Push Notifications for new incoming messages
- Pro: Added AI takeover handoff to resume conversations after live chat sessions
1.1.4
- Feature: Added a new advanced option to customize the background color of the Chatbot Floating Text.
- Feature: Added support for the OpenAI models GPT-5.3 Chat and GPT-5.4 in AI Configuration.
1.1.3
- Fix: Shortcode chatbot overlap issue (Z-index fix)
- Info: This release includes new AI-powered contact form features in wpiko-chatbot-pro.
1.1.2
- Improve: Sound notifications
- Improve: Added sound preloading for faster playback response
1.1.1
- Feature: Add Reasoning Effort and Verbosity controls for GPT-5 models
- Feature: Added customizable chatbot interface text (localization support)
- Feature: New customizable Error Messages system - group technical errors into friendly user-facing categories
- Feature: Added Debug Log admin page - database-based logging that works without WP_DEBUG for easier troubleshooting
- Improve: Centralized error message defaults (DRY principle) for better maintainability
- Improve: Enhanced error logging - admins see detailed technical errors while users see friendly messages
- Improve: Enhance API connection reliability for new parameter structures
- Improve: Enhanced chatbot UI
1.1.0
- Fix: Resolved race condition causing mixed or delayed responses during rapid conversations
- Improve: Prevent concurrent message submissions by adding frontend request queue
- Improve: Disable input and send button while a response is processing
- Improve: Implement frontend-based response tracking for more reliable conversation flow
- Improve: Clear conversation chain correctly when chat is reset
1.0.9
- Fixed "Access denied" errors caused by cached expired WordPress nonces
- Added automatic nonce refresh mechanism - chatbot now seamlessly retries failed requests with fresh nonces
- Improved resilience for sites using page caching plugins (WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, etc.)
- Rate-limited nonce refresh endpoint to prevent abuse
1.0.8
- Fixed conversation context issue where AI would repeat responses after 5+ messages
- Implemented OpenAI's previous_response_id for stateful multi-turn conversations
- Added database schema upgrade for storing OpenAI response IDs
- Improved conversation continuity and context awareness
1.0.7
- Added support for latest OpenAI models: GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1 Chat, GPT-5.2, and GPT-5.2 Chat
- Added model information display with accurate specifications for all new models
1.0.6
- Added client-side timeout handling (90s for chatbot, 60s for contact form) - users now receive clear feedback instead of waiting indefinitely
- Optimized retry mechanism - reduced from 3 retries to 2 with shorter timeouts for faster failure feedback
- Improved error messages - specific, actionable messages for timeout, network, rate limit, and server errors instead of generic "An unexpected error occurred"
- Added retry attempt logging for better debugging
1.0.5
- Added translation function to the download conversation button
- Fixed Download conversation - sale prices fixed render
- Added learn link to the plugin header
1.0.4
- Removed the Assistant API
- Added plugin Dashboard - provides a modern, elegant overview of the chatbot's performance and activity
- Added mobile-friendly navigation for the admin interface - enhances user experience on mobile devices with a collapsible hamburger menu
- Important: If you are currently using the Assistant API, you must migrate to the Responses API before updating the plugin
1.0.3
- Added OpenAI Responses API integration for improved performance and reliability
- Enhanced AI Configuration section with dual API support (Assistants API and Responses API)
- Future-proofed plugin for OpenAI Assistants API deprecation (sunset August 26, 2026)
- Improved conversation state management with stateful interactions
- Better token efficiency and reduced latency with new Responses API
- Enhanced tool integration capabilities for future development
1.0.2
- Added cache-busting system to ensure updated assets are always loaded
- Improved header UI/UX for better usability and cleaner design
1.0.1
1.0.0