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MxChat AI Search

Version 1.0.4 · Updated 3 days 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 1.0.4

  • Fixed The AI Overview now appears on WooCommerce product search results. Product searches render a product grid instead of the usual article list, and the overview could not find a place to appear, so it silently showed nothing — it now anchors above the product grid, in both the overlay and full AI results page display modes. Yes, product searches are supported.
  • Improved When the overview cannot find a compatible results area on an unusual search template, it now says so in the browser console, naming what it looked for, instead of doing nothing without a trace.