Zanderio AI

Zanderio AI connects your Wordpress site or WooCommerce store to an AI-powered sales agent that answers customer questions in real time using your live product and order data. The chat widget is bundled directly inside the plugin — no external scripts are loaded or executed at runtime. All communication with the Zanderio service uses your store's existing Application Password credentials over HTTPS. Features:

• One-click activation — auto-handshake with Zanderio backend
• Application Password authentication (no manual API keys)
• WooCommerce product/order sync via webhooks
• Widget colour customisation from Settings → Zanderio
• Daily health heartbeat
• Clean uninstall — all data removed from both sides

Downloaded ZIP File Installation

1. Go to the Zanderio AI plugin page on WordPress.org and click Download.
2. The plugin ZIP file will be downloaded to your device, for example: zanderio-ai.1.4.0.zip
3. Log in to your WordPress Admin Dashboard.
4. From the left menu, go to: Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
5. Click Choose File, select the downloaded ZIP file, and then click Install Now.
6. Once the plugin is installed, click Activate Plugin.
7. After activation, you will be redirected to app.zanderio.ai to authorize and connect your website with Zanderio.
8. Complete the authorization process to finish the setup.
9. Once connected, Zanderio AI will be ready to use on your WordPress website.

1.4.7

• The chat widget now goes live instantly after you activate it during setup, instead of waiting for a background sync.

1.4.6

• Added voice input — shoppers can now ask the assistant questions by speaking instead of typing, with their speech transcribed automatically. Off by default; enable it from Settings → Zanderio.
• Added proactive nudges — the assistant can now surface a contextual prompt bubble based on shopper behavior (e.g. cart activity), in addition to the existing timed welcome bubble.

1.4.5

• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.0.

1.4.4

• The Settings → Zanderio page now checks WordPress.org for plugin updates every time you view it, instead of waiting for WordPress's normal update schedule (up to 12 hours).

1.4.3

• Fixed the chat widget not appearing after a successful connection — the plugin now reliably receives its widget identifier from the Zanderio service and renders the widget on the storefront.

1.4.2

• Fixed the plugin's connection handshake calling a URL missing a required path segment, which made every new install fail immediately with "Route Not Found" and silently prevented the chat widget from ever loading.

1.4.1

• Corrected External Services disclosure to accurately describe the REST-based bootstrap and chat streaming endpoints (previously referenced an unused WebSocket connection).

1.4.0

• Fixed a bug where the chat widget could silently fail to send a shopper's first message right after the page loaded, requiring a manual refresh to recover.
• Redesigned the chat header and message bubbles to match your store's brand color exactly — solid brand color on the header, launcher, and your own sent messages, with a cleaner neutral background for AI replies.
• Added a modern send button that stays muted until you start typing, then fills with your brand color — the same pattern used by today's leading messaging apps.
• Reworked the widget's expanded view into a larger centered window instead of a full-screen takeover, so shoppers keep more of the page visible behind it.
• Added an idle wiggle animation and an optional auto-open delay for the chat launcher button, plus support for showing your own store logo on the launcher instead of the default icon.
• Polished launcher button padding and logo sizing for a cleaner look across screen sizes.

1.3.3

• Migrated the embed to the REST-bootstrap widget: the loader now boots from the public widget key (window.ZanderioWidgetConfig.key) instead of the legacy storeId config.
• The plugin now stores the widget key returned by the connection handshake and only renders the widget once a key is present.
• Hints the WooCommerce platform so in-widget cart adds resolve to the storefront adapter.

1.3.2

• Added cart preview sheet component for in-widget cart confirmation before adding items.
• Enhanced artifact component styling with improved product cards, carousels, notices, lists, tables, and wizards.
• Added cart preview sheet complement styles with quantity controls and product details.
• Improved artifact product card cart button interactions and disabled states.

1.3.1

• Fixed confirmation cards not displaying description text or action buttons — booking confirmations and cart flows now render correctly.
• Fixed wizard step progress not showing step descriptions.
• Improved SSE stream version validation to handle both numeric and string version numbers from backend.
• Consolidated form field schema for improved type safety across all widget surfaces.

1.3.0

• Fixed add-to-cart button not appearing for product recommendations — products now render through the full WooCommerce ProductCard / ProductCarousel regardless of whether they arrive via the new or legacy pipeline.
• Upgraded WordPress widget to the full 10-kind artifact taxonomy (card, select, confirm, notice, feedback, list, table, wizard, text, form), matching the general CDN widget and client-side playground exactly.
• New artifact kinds (booking confirmation flows, datetime slot pickers, quick-reply chips, data tables, multi-step wizard progress, inline forms, notices) now render correctly.
• Removed all legacy message-type dispatching — all AI responses flow through the unified artifact pipeline; product normalization happens once in the message hook before rendering.
• Added searching_calendar skeleton loading state to match the general widget.
• Removed dependency on the separate FeedbackButtons component; feedback is now handled inline via the feedback artifact kind.

1.2.5

• Restored product browsing to a clean arrow-based carousel with minimal store-themed previous and next controls.
• Refined product-card actions so direct WooCommerce adds use a compact cart icon button and choose-options flows show a disabled in-button loader before navigation.
• Updated the product loading state to match the restored arrow-based carousel layout.
• Improved chat refresh recovery by restoring the latest visitor conversation when the persisted conversation ID is missing or stale.

1.2.4

• Replaced the arrow-based product carousel with a gesture-first horizontal swipe rail for browsing product results inside the chat widget.
• Reworked the loading state into full-card skeleton placeholders that match the live product rail layout.
• Reduced the product-card footprint and improved CTA visibility so key actions stay visible inside the widget viewport.
• Prevented unresolved multi-variant WooCommerce products from attempting broken AJAX cart adds by routing shoppers to the product page to choose options first.

1.2.3

• Added a product-card cart confirmation flow for WooCommerce storefronts, including an in-widget bottom-sheet preview before the item is added to cart.
• Added quantity controls and clearer product, variant, and pricing details inside the cart confirmation sheet.
• Limited the product-card cart flow to WooCommerce and WordPress storefronts instead of attempting unsupported storefront cart mutations.
• Improved WordPress store relinking so plugin installs can attach cleanly to an already-connected Zanderio store during reconnect and portal-first install flows.

1.2.2

• Fixed a small streaming-cursor rendering issue that could show an empty message bubble before streamed text arrived.

1.2.1

• Refreshed the chat widget design with improved spacing, contrast-aware accent colors, a pill-style composer, and smoother message-area behavior.
• Improved the in-chat product experience with richer product cards, better variant summaries, swatches, pricing display, and stock-state feedback.
• Added storefront cart actions for WooCommerce with lightweight success and failure toast feedback.
• Improved message rendering with better action button handling, safer external link normalization, and a compact expandable thinking-status pill.
• Added storeId-aware widget bootstrap support in the WordPress plugin.
• Persist the remote store identity from install, reconnect, and authenticated health-check responses.
• Connected stores now self-heal a missing local storeId from the settings page before rendering widget config.
• Inject storeId into window.ZanderioWidgetConfig when known so the widget can bootstrap against the correct store.
• Clean up the persisted remote store identity on uninstall to avoid stale local metadata.
• Prepared the plugin for exact-origin widget hardening rollout while keeping the current compatibility path in place.

1.2.0

• Full AI streaming support — real-time SSE responses via fetch + ReadableStream.
• Thread persistence — conversation history survives page reloads.
• JWT authentication for secure AI streaming sessions.
• Thinking status indicators — contextual labels while the AI processes.
• Conversation lifecycle — end states, "Start New Chat" button.
• Proactive engagement — configurable bubble to encourage visitors to chat.
• Feedback buttons — thumbs up/down on AI responses.
• Suggestion chips — quick-reply options from the AI.
• Error handling — friendly messages for 401/403/429/5xx responses.
• Streaming cursor animation and error message styling.
• Nested config support for updated backend schema.

1.1.0

• Widget JS is now bundled inside the plugin zip (assets/loader.js) — no remote script is fetched or executed at runtime.
• Script and CSS enqueued via wp_enqueue_script, wp_enqueue_style and wp_add_inline_style for full WordPress compatibility.
• Added widget host container with fixed-position CSS, matching the Shopify theme extension exactly.
• Added ZanderioWidgetLoaded guard against double-initialisation.
• Added Primary Color picker to Settings → Zanderio.

1.0.0

• Initial release.