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GoldenRetriever AI Chat
AI knowledge engine for very large WordPress sites with hundreds or thousands of pages.
GoldenRetriever AI Chat ranks #59,277 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #2,057 of 3,397 in the Communication category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Jul 17, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Tested up to WP 6.9 (Current: 7.1.2)
v0.18.7
Current Version v0.18.7
Updated 2 months ago
Last Update on 17 Jul, 2026
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- Version
- 0.18.7
- Last Updated
- Jul 17, 2026
- Requires WP
- 6.5+
- Tested Up To
- 6.9
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
- Author
- felixxvelarde
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about GoldenRetriever AI Chat
No. If you can install a WordPress plugin from the admin, you can install GoldenRetriever AI Chat. The setup is a paste-a-key-and-save flow; the connection test on the Settings tab tells you exactly what to do if anything is off — usually it's a one-line message to send your hosting provider.
The free version uses Claude (Anthropic). Pro adds OpenAI (GPT) and Gemini (Google) as alternative providers. You bring the API key for whichever provider you choose; there is no markup, you pay your provider directly.
For a small business site receiving roughly 30 advisor conversations a day, expect £5–£15 per month with Claude Sonnet 4.6 (the recommended default). Claude Haiku is cheaper for higher volumes; Opus is more expensive but more capable. Anthropic bills you directly per token used.
Yes. The widget inherits your theme's primary colour (via --wp--preset--color--primary) and body font where the theme exposes them, falling back to a neutral indigo + system font stack. It's been verified against Twenty Twenty-Five and the major block themes.
Inside your WordPress database. The plugin doesn't have a server. It doesn't see your content, your visitors, or your conversations. The only outbound traffic for serving chat is the API call to Anthropic that you authorise by configuring an API key. (If you opt in to the optional Freemius connection for the in-admin upgrade path, basic licence/environment data also goes to Freemius — see "External services"; skipping that opt-in sends nothing.) Conversation history isn't stored server-side beyond a per-session browser cookie that lets visitors continue a conversation across page loads.
Yes. The "Try it" panel on the Settings tab lets you run real conversations against your configured model end-to-end, without any visitor seeing the widget. The Knowledge tab also includes a Test Retrieval panel that shows you which posts the advisor would quote for a given query.
The key is encrypted with AES-256-GCM tied to your WordPress salts before it's written to the database, and the option is stored with autoload=no. The admin UI only ever displays a masked form (••••XXXX). The plaintext key is read only at the moment a chat is being served.
The plugin enforces a per-IP rate limit (30 messages/hour by default) and a global rate limit (200 messages/hour by default) before any call to Anthropic. Both limits are filterable. The widget also caps individual messages at 4,096 characters and conversations at 20 messages.
Conversations go directly from your visitor's browser through your WordPress site to Anthropic and back. They are not logged on disk, not analytics-tracked, not sent to any third-party server we operate (we don't have one). Anthropic processes the messages per their published privacy policy.
Yes. GoldenRetriever AI Chat runs each post through the_content before indexing, which executes shortcodes and page-builder block output exactly the same way WordPress renders them for visitors. This means rendered text — including prices, product names, or any text generated by shortcodes — becomes searchable and can be quoted in answers. If you want to exclude a specific post from the index (for example, a page you keep published for internal reasons), use the grchat_index_render_content filter: return false for that post's ID and it will be skipped during indexing.
