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Alpaca Bot

Name: Alpaca Bot
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: carmelosantana

A privately hosted WordPress AI chatbot. Chat with your own models, give them tools, and keep every conversation in your own database.

Alpaca Bot ranks #27,412 among WordPress.org plugins with 20+ active installations, is #2,500 of 6,352 in the Media category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Sep 11, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v0.5.0 Current Version v0.5.0

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 11 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#2,500 of 6,352 in Media Top 50% by installs Downloads -75.8% this week Actively maintained

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.5.0
Last Updated: Sep 11, 2026
Requires WP: 6.9+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 8.4 or higher
Author: carmelosantana

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Alpaca Bot

Yes. Alpaca Bot does not ship a model and sends nothing to a service of ours. Point it at an Ollama instance, or at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, on the Provider tab. On WordPress 7.0 and later there is a second option: WordPress AI provider routes every turn through the AI client built into core, to whichever AI provider plugin the site has configured under Settings › Connectors. That path does not stream, because the WordPress client does not.

Whatever you type, and the recent messages of the conversation, go to the endpoint you configured, and nothing else. Conversations and usage receipts are rows in your own database. Turn conversation storage off entirely on the Privacy tab; a receipt is still written for every reply, because that is what the monthly caps count, and it never holds message text.

The chat screen is open to anyone who can edit posts, which includes Contributors. The alpaca_bot/admin/menu_capability filter changes that. Settings is administrators only. Read Tools, and what they let the model reach, under Usage, before you open the chat to a role: a role admitted to chat gets the enabled tools with it.

Three brakes, and they are independent. Limits sets a monthly token cap for the whole site and another per user, counted from the receipts and enforced on the server. A shared per-minute rate limit (thirty requests a user, moved by the alpaca_bot/rate_limit filter) covers the chat screen, the REST routes, the abilities and the shortcodes together. And Tools decides what the model may do besides answer. Shortcode answers are cached, and never generated for a visitor or for the REST API.

Into one option, moved automatically on the first request after the upgrade. Two things do not survive the move: 0.4's API username and password were sent as HTTP Basic and 0.5 sends a Bearer token instead, so the Provider tab starts with an empty API key for you to fill in. Your 0.4 conversations are kept, and become private to their author, which is what 0.5 enforces everywhere. The model answers with the text of a tool call instead of an answer. Some small models advertise tool support and then write the call out as prose. On the Models tab, set that model's Tools override to off; it beats whatever the provider claims. A model too small to use tools well is usually too small for the tools to be worth it. There is a price as well as a symptom. All three tools are on by default, and their schemas go with every turn: measured on this plugin, about 790 extra prompt tokens each time, against 36 with tools off. On a large model that is noise in the bill; on a small one it is most of the prompt, which is why the answer degrades. Turning off the tools you do not use, under Tools, costs nothing and is worth doing before you tune anything else.