Fast Site Search Chatbot – Chatbot Plugin for WordPress

A lightweight, privacy-friendly chatbot for WordPress that lets visitors quickly find content on your site.
It scans your posts and pages into a private JSON index and provides an instant floating chat widget for user questions — no external APIs or AI required.

Features

• Floating chat widget for WordPress – modern UI with open/close button.
• Instant internal search – uses a local JSON index for speed.
• No external services – runs entirely on your server and the visitor’s browser.
• Daily automatic index – cron rebuilds dataset if content changes; rotates filename daily.
• Exclude options – choose categories, tags, or individual posts/pages to skip.
• Disable on selected pages – control where the widget appears.
• Customizable button colors – pick with WordPress color picker.
• Responsive and mobile-friendly – works on any device.
• Built-in security – randomized filename, nonce and same-origin protection, rate limiting.
• Clean uninstall – removes options, dataset, cron jobs.

Who Is It For?

Site owners who want:

• A simple chatbot for WordPress that answers with relevant links.
• A fast, privacy-respecting search assistant without external API costs.
• To make it easier for visitors to discover content through a conversational interface.

Requirements

• WordPress 5.0 or higher
• PHP 7.4+
• WP Cron enabled (for daily rebuilds)
• Compatible with Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed/OpenLiteSpeed

Installation

1. Upload the plugin folder FastSiteSearchChatbot to /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate Fast Site Search Chatbot in WP Admin → Plugins.
3. Open Fast Chatbot settings:
   • Select widget position (left/right).
   • Choose button colors.
   • Optionally exclude posts, categories, tags.
   • Optionally disable on selected pages.
   • Click Build Dataset to index your content.
4. The chat icon will now appear on your site.

How It Works

• Builds a JSON dataset of your published posts and pages (title + short text).
• The dataset is loaded client-side; visitor search happens instantly in the browser.
• The chatbot shows top matching pages as clickable links — no new window, opens in the same tab.
• File is private and rotated daily; requests are nonce-protected and rate-limited.

Security Notes

• Dataset is stored under wp-content/uploads/fssc-dataset/ with randomized filename.
• Apache .htaccess auto-denies access.
• For Nginx/OpenLiteSpeed, add: location ~* /wp-content/uploads/fssc-dataset/.*.json$ { deny all; }

License

GPLv2 or later – see LICENSE.

Author: Finland93
Repo: https://github.com/Finland93/FastSiteSearchChatbot