Install
This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.
Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:
wp plugin install https://github.com/nodethemes/nodethemes-ai-chat/archive/refs/heads/main.zipFree AI chatbot plugin for WordPress.
NodeThemes AI Chat is a free AI chatbot plugin for WordPress. It answers your customers in a live chat on your website, using your own OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude) or Google Gemini API key and what you tell it about your business. Questions it cannot answer are passed to you.
- Website: NodeThemes AI Chat on nodethemes.com
- All free plugins: Free WordPress plugins from NodeThemes
Features (free version)
- Live chat widget on your website
- Answers with your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini API key
- Describe your business in plain words, plus a Knowledge list of questions and answers
- Never invents prices or policies: unknown questions go to you ("Needs you" in the Inbox, plus an e-mail)
- Inbox: read every conversation, reply yourself, switch the AI off per conversation
- 50 AI replies per month
NodeThemes AI Chat Pro
The free plugin is complete on its own. The Pro add-on, sold at nodethemes.com as a yearly license with updates and support, adds:
- Unlimited AI replies
- Telegram bot and Telegram Business
- WhatsApp (official Cloud API, or your own number by QR code)
- Human mode: typing indicator and natural reply timing
- Learns from your answers
- Questions sent to your Telegram
- WooCommerce product answers and a backup AI provider
Pro is installed next to the free plugin; your settings and data stay when you upgrade. See the full Free vs Pro comparison table on the product page.
Installation
- Download the latest version from nodethemes.com/free-plugins. You can also click Code → Download ZIP above, but the version on nodethemes.com is ready to upload as it is.
- In WordPress go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
- New versions then appear in Dashboard → Updates like any other plugin.
Requirements: see the plugin header and readme.txt.
Support
- E-mail: nodethemes.com@gmail.com
- Telegram: t.me/nodethemes
- Contact page: nodethemes.com/contact
License
GPL-2.0-or-later. Made by NodeThemes – WordPress themes and AI plugins.