Configuration, not guesswork
Provider and model selection, API key, system prompt and assistant modes, plus widget appearance — all in the WordPress admin, in the native admin styling rather than a bolted-on panel.
Primary build
YakWP AI Chatbot — a self-hosted chat assistant for WordPress
An assistant that runs on your own site against your own model key: no per-conversation subscription, no handing your customer conversations to a third-party widget company. Released across seven versions from v1.0.0 to v1.4.0, and it includes the unglamorous parts most plugin builds skip — licence activation, usage analytics and a conversation log.
Working on the front end
The widget running on a real site, mid-conversation. Answers are generated from the site's own key, so the conversation data stays on your infrastructure.
Every conversation, logged
Stored history with the visitor message, the answer, contact details and a rating column — so the assistant can be reviewed and improved instead of being a black box.
Usage you can actually see
Conversation and message counts, error count and average response time. On the test install shown, the dashboard reports a 1149 ms average response — a small sample, quoted as what the panel says rather than as a benchmark.
Licensing, built in
Key activation with total, active and expired counters. The commercial part is engineered, not an honour system — which is the actual work behind selling a plugin rather than giving it away.
Maintained across versions
Seven releases, each a real version bump with the settings surface kept coherent. The plugin grew from 13 KB to over 20 KB of shipped code across that run.