GoldenRetriever AI Chat is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by felixxvelarde. With a rating of 5.0★ from 1 reviews.
GoldenRetriever AI Chat is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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GoldenRetriever AI Chat is a WordPress app. It holds a 5.0★ average from 1 review on WordPress.
Pros
No standout positives in the measured data.
Cons
−Only 1 review — the average can still move with a few new ratings
How GoldenRetriever AI Chat works
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AI knowledge engine for very large WordPress sites with hundreds or thousands of pages.
Turns high volume content and blogs into findable answers, with no hallucinations and grounded only in your own content. 100% private, your content is never used to train AI models.
Five-minute set-up. Automatic ingestion. Bring your own Anthropic key (pro version available for other major models, embedding, and for fuzzy search).
Your content already has the answers
You’ve spent years writing posts, pages, FAQs and policies. Most visitors never read them — they scan for a few seconds, don’t spot what they came for, and leave, straight past the answer you already wrote.
GoldenRetriever AI Chat fixes that. When a visitor asks a question, it finds the relevant passages in your own content and answers from those — instantly, in plain language, and it shows which of your pages the answer came from. The answer was already buried in your site; the plugin fetches it. There’s no knowledge base to rebuild, nothing to retrain, no copying and pasting your content into a separate tool.
And because every answer is drawn only from your own published content, the advisor stays grounded in what you actually said — it isn’t inventing facts or pulling from the open web. That retrieve-then-answer method is the same principle behind today’s most reliable AI assistants: find the right source first, then answer from it.
Built for non-technical site owners. Five-minute setup from “install” to “ask my first question.” Native WordPress UI, Gutenberg block, classic shortcode, sensible defaults for every option, and a built-in Test Chat panel so you can sanity-check the advisor before any visitor sees it.
Features in this free release
Streaming Claude chat — Server-Sent Events flow tokens to the visitor as Claude generates them.
Encrypted BYO API key — Your Anthropic key is encrypted with AES-256-GCM at rest, tied to your WordPress salts. Only the last four characters are ever shown in the UI; the plaintext is never echoed back.
Three placements — site-wide floating bubble, Gutenberg GoldenRetriever AI Chat block, or [grchat_chat] shortcode; inherits your theme’s colours and fonts automatically.
Theme-inheriting widget — picks up --wp--preset--color--primary and your body font where the theme exposes them; falls back to a neutral palette.
Site-grounded answers from your own content — posts and pages (including shortcode and page-builder output) are rendered and indexed, so the advisor retrieves the relevant passages from your site before it answers.
Incremental updates on save — the index updates automatically when you publish or update a post; no manual re-index needed for routine changes.
Resumable “Reindex all content” job — a one-click full reindex with a live progress bar; safe to stop and restart at any time.
URL and file knowledge sources — administrators can add a public URL (SSRF-guarded via wp_safe_remote_get()) or upload .txt / .md files to extend the knowledge base.
Configurable maximum response length — cap token usage per reply to control cost.
Signed-token + rate-limited public chat endpoint — the anonymous front-end chat endpoint is protected by a short-lived signed request token; per-IP and global rate limits (both filterable) stop abusive traffic.
Advanced prompt editing with reset — edit the system prompt in the admin, inject important links (booking URL, contact page, support email) automatically into every conversation, and reset to the shipped default with one click.
Important links injection — the advisor automatically weaves your booking URL, contact page, and support email address into answers; no manual prompt editing required.
Email me this chat — visitors can email themselves the conversation transcript from inside the widget. Consent-aware: the visitor’s email is stored in your site’s own database only when they opt in (not sent to any external service). Administrators can view captured leads in wp-admin, export them as a CSV from the Leads tab, and the table is fully covered by WordPress’s built-in privacy exporter and personal-data eraser tools.
Leads tab — paginated list of visitors who opted in to receive their transcript, with CSV export and injection-safe column handling. Pro routes leads to your inbox or CRM with full conversation context.
Bug report — the Support tab lets you send a pre-filled diagnostics report to the support team via your own email client (mailto), with recent log entries attached. No data leaves your server until you click Send in your email app.
Refer a friend — one-click referral link from the Support tab (draft copy shipped; final wording is a pending decision).
Optional “Get your own” widget link — a small, configurable attribution link in the widget footer that drives word-of-mouth. Toggle it off from the Appearance tab.
Full uninstall cleanup — removing the plugin drops all plugin-created tables and options; no orphaned data.
How it works in three steps
Install the plugin and activate it. WordPress redirects you straight to the Settings tab on first run.
Paste your Anthropic API key, pick a Claude model (Sonnet, Opus or Haiku), and save. The key is encrypted before it hits the database.
Decide where the chat lives — flip Floating widget on for site-wide, or drop the [grchat_chat] shortcode / GoldenRetriever AI Chat block on any page.
What’s coming in GoldenRetriever AI Chat Pro
The free version is the chat surface. Pro adds OpenAI and Gemini providers, multi-persona advisors, PDF/DOCX/CSV file knowledge with embeddings retrieval, lead routing to your inbox/CRM with full conversation context, and white-labelling — all as a separate plugin you install alongside the free version. No data migration, no breakage.
External services
This plugin connects to third-party services that you configure and pay for
directly with your own API keys. It includes no central service operated by us.
Your chosen AI provider (Anthropic Claude — api.anthropic.com).
When a visitor sends a chat message, the plugin sends the conversation and
the relevant excerpts of your site content to the AI provider you configured,
using the API key you entered, and streams the reply back. This happens only
on an explicit chat action. Data sent: the visitor’s messages and the matched
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GoldenRetriever AI Chat is a WordPress app by felixxvelarde. It holds a 5.0-star average from 1 review on WordPress.
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