Version 1.0.0
- New First release scaffold — MxChat then AI Search settings page with the master toggle (off by default), display mode, confidence threshold, source options, cache duration, and per-visitor rate limit.
- New AI Overview above your search results. Turn it on and a search for something your knowledge base covers now shows a short AI answer, drawn only from your own content, right above the theme's normal results — with a row of source cards linking back to the matching pages.
- New Weak searches stay clean. If the best knowledge-base match is below your confidence setting, no overview appears and the search behaves exactly as before, so visitors never see a made-up answer.
- New Answers are cached per search, so a repeated query shows instantly and costs nothing, and a per-visitor limit caps how often the AI is called to protect your bill.
- Improved When the overview is turned off, the search page loads with zero added scripts or styles — identical to stock WordPress.
- New Full AI results page mode. A new display mode replaces your search results with a clean two-column layout — the AI answer and its sources on the left, a side rail of matched articles with thumbnails on the right, and a "Show all results" link that opens your theme's normal list underneath. Choose it from the display mode setting.
- New The full results page falls back safely. If a search has no confident answer, is rate-limited, or the AI call fails, the page keeps your theme's normal search results instead — the AI layout only takes over when there is a real answer to show. You can also set how many article cards appear in the side rail.
- New Embeddable AI search box. A new shortcode, [mxchat_ai_search], drops a clean AI search input onto any page, post, or widget area — a visitor types a question and the answer appears right below the box, with sources, without leaving the page. It works even when the search overview above is turned off, so you can add an AI search box while leaving your theme's own search untouched. You can set the placeholder text, choose an icon or a text button, pick an accent color and width, and show either simple source links or the fuller source-card layout. Put more than one on a page and each works on its own.
- New Choose a separate model for search answers. A new Overview model setting under Display and Limits lets you generate the AI answer with a lighter, cheaper model than your main chat model — a search answer is a short summary, so a smaller model usually reads the same at a fraction of the cost. It applies to all three search surfaces, and the default, Inherit site chat model, keeps the current behavior. A note under the setting always shows which model is being used.
- New Insert the AI search box from the block editor. Alongside the shortcode, there is now a MxChat AI Search block — search for it in the block inserter, drop it on any page or post, and set the results style, sources, width, placeholder, button text, and accent color from the block settings panel, with a live preview right in the editor. It renders exactly the same box as the shortcode, so both stay in step.
- Improved The AI overview and the full AI results page line up with your theme's own content column, so they match the width and position of your normal search results instead of stretching across the whole window. This works on classic themes as well as modern block themes, it measures your theme rather than assuming a layout, and it follows along when the window is resized or viewed on a phone.
