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MxChat AI Search

Version 1.0.6 · Updated 1 week ago

Google-style AI Overviews for your own website's search. Visitors' queries get answered straight from your knowledge base — above your theme's normal results, as a full AI results page, or anywhere on your site via an embeddable AI search box.

Features

  • AI Overview above your default search results — works with any theme's native search bar, zero theme edits. The overview renders as clean text that inherits your site's fonts and colors.
  • Full AI results page mode — a Google-style layout with the AI answer on the left, matching article cards with thumbnails on the right, and a "Show all results" link back to your classic results.
  • Embeddable search box — drop an AI-answering search input on any page with the mxchat_ai_search shortcode or the Gutenberg block. Visitors get answers in place, no page reload.
  • Grounded answers with sources — every answer is generated from your MxChat knowledge base and links the entries it drew from. Queries below the confidence threshold show nothing rather than a made-up answer.
  • Fast by design — your search page always loads instantly; the overview streams in afterward. If the AI is ever unavailable, visitors simply see your normal results.
  • Built-in caching and per-IP rate limiting protect your API bill, with a one-click cache clear and a configurable confidence threshold.
  • Multilingual-ready — every visitor-facing string (overview heading, generating message, sources label) is customizable from settings.
  • Uses your existing MxChat provider and model — OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, or a custom endpoint. No separate API setup.

What's new

Version 1.0.6

  • New Test a search. Score any search against your knowledge base from the AI Search settings screen and see the closest entries, their match scores, which clear the Confidence threshold, and what setting would let a search through. Nothing is generated or cached while testing.
  • Fixed AI Overviews work on sites whose knowledge base is a Pinecone document index. Before, switching to one made every search return no overview.
  • Improved The Confidence threshold is now a slider from 20 to 85, the same control as the chatbot's Similarity Threshold, instead of three fixed choices. Your setting carries over (Low is 25, Moderate is 35, High is 50), so nothing changes until you move it. The field also now states that it affects the AI Overview only, not the chatbot.