After months of development, AskWP is here. A free, open-source WordPress plugin that adds AI-powered chat to any WordPress site — with RAG context, multi-provider LLM support, and zero external dependencies.
Why We Built This
Most AI chatbot plugins for WordPress fall into two camps: expensive SaaS products that charge per conversation, or thin wrappers around the ChatGPT API with no real WordPress integration. We wanted something different — a plugin that actually understands your WordPress content and uses it to give accurate answers.
AskWP reads your pages, posts, and FAQs. When a visitor asks a question, the plugin searches your content in real time, ranks the results, and feeds the most relevant snippets to the AI alongside the conversation. The AI answers from your content, not from its general training data.
What Makes AskWP Different
- RAG-powered context — Every response is grounded in your actual WordPress content
- Three LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama (self-hosted). Switch in seconds.
- Visual form builder — Build contact forms that live inside the chat widget
- Zero dependencies — Pure PHP and vanilla JS. No npm, no React, no build step.
- 7-tab admin panel — Full control over LLM settings, RAG behavior, appearance, forms, and rate limits
- Security built in — Prompt injection detection, origin validation, rate limiting
Getting Started
Install the plugin, add your API key, write a system prompt. That is it. The chat widget appears on your site and starts answering questions from your content immediately. Most users are live in under 5 minutes.
AskWP is free and open source under the MIT license. Download it, fork it, extend it, make it yours.