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PubPla AI Help Center

PubPla AI Help Center is a WordPress plugin with the following stats:

  • #21,719 Global Rank
  • Since 2018 8 years active

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About PubPla AI Help Center

AI powered FAQ and Help Document Management Plugin for WordPress.

This plugin add new custom post type ‘FAQ’. With some functionality, you can build help center for your user.
What is help center? We collect examples at our github wiki.

Live demo: https://demo.kunoichiwp.com/pubplafaq/ — Try the AI Overview on the front page. The demo is in Japanese, built around a fictional anti-aging subscription “Jovian”, but you can still get a feel for how the AI answers real questions from your FAQ content (and admits when something isn’t covered).

Creating Portal

This plugin will provide…

  • Custom post type with single page and archive page.
  • Custom taxonomy associated to CPT.
  • Incremental search box.
  • AI Overview(Since 2.0.0)

AI Overview

AI Overview answers user questions based on your FAQ content using a large language model.
It uses the wp-ai-client bundled with WordPress core since WordPress 7.0, which requires an AI service to be configured in WordPress.

Requirements: AI Overview requires WordPress 7.0 or later. On older WordPress versions, the AI Overview block and template function will still appear in the editor and on the front-end, but the search form will not work (the REST endpoint that powers it is disabled). Other features of this plugin (FAQ custom post type, incremental search, shortcode) continue to work on WordPress 6.6+. Upgrade WordPress to 7.0 to enable AI Overview.

You can configure AI behavior and rate limiting from Settings > Help Center in the admin panel. The settings page also includes a Rebuild Catalog Now button to manually refresh the FAQ catalog used as LLM context.

Using the Block

Add the AI FAQ Overview block in the block editor. The block has the following options:

  • Placeholder — Input placeholder text.
  • Button Text — Submit button label.
  • Show Sources — Display related FAQ links below the answer.

    Using the Template Function

You can also use hamelp_render_ai_overview() in your theme templates:

<?php echo hamelp_render_ai_overview(); ?>

The function accepts an optional array of arguments:

<php
echo hamelp_render_ai_overview( [
    'placeholder'  => 'Ask a question...',
    'button_text'  => 'Ask AI',
    'show_sources' => true,
] );
?>

The function automatically enqueues the required JavaScript and CSS assets.

Search Box

The incremental FAQ search box is available in three forms.

Using the Block

Add the FAQ Search Box block in the block editor. The block has the following options:

  • Label — Input placeholder text.
  • Button Text — Submit button label.

    Using the Shortcode

You can use shortcode hamelp-search in page content.

[hamelp-search label='Enter your question here.'][/hamelp-search]

Using the Template Function

You can also call hamelp_render_search_box() directly from your theme templates:

<?php echo hamelp_render_search_box( [
    'label' => 'Enter your question here.',
    'btn'   => 'Search',
] ); ?>

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I contribute?

You can contribute to our github repo. Any issues or PRs are welcomed.

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Changelog

For full release notes of each version, see GitHub Releases.

2.4.3

  • Fix the AI Overview send button appearing as a horizontal ellipse on themes that set a button min-width. The button’s width is now constrained (complementing the height fix in 2.4.2) so it stays a circle regardless of theme styles.

2.4.2

  • Fix the AI Overview send button rendering as an oversized rectangle (with the arrow sometimes hidden) on themes whose button styles overrode the plugin CSS. The button’s structural styles are now scoped so theme styles can no longer override its size and shape.

2.4.1

  • Redesign the AI Overview question box as a ChatGPT-style auto-growing textarea with a circular send button inset at the bottom-right. Submit with Enter (Shift+Enter for a newline), with IME composition handled. Adds accessible labels and focus handling, a helper hint, and a responsive full-width layout.

2.4.0

  • Add an AI Model setting to pin the provider/model used for AI Overview. Only configured connectors (WordPress 7.0 Settings Connectors) are listed, and if the chosen model later becomes unavailable it falls back to auto-selection instead of failing.
  • Change the default temperature to omitted. Some models (e.g. Claude Opus/Sonnet) reject a temperature and returned a 400 error when auto-selected; omitting is safe for every model. Set a value on the settings page only if you need it.
  • Add hamelp_ai_model and hamelp_ai_temperature filters to override the model and temperature from code.
  • Improve source citations: rename the “Related FAQs” heading to Sources, and render the list as a numbered (ordered) list so its numbers line up with the inline (Ref. N) citations in the answer.

2.3.1

  • User can change the reference prefix (Ref. 1).

2.3.0

  • Change ownership to Tarosky.
  • Rename the plugin to PubPla AI Help Center. The plugin slug, text domain, REST routes, and PHP APIs stay hamelp for backward compatibility, so no configuration or code changes are required.
  • AI Overview now supports multi-turn conversations. Follow-up questions keep the previous exchanges as context, and answers stack as a Q&A thread. Conversation history is held in the browser and sent with each request, so nothing is stored on the server.
  • Add hamelp_history_window filter to limit how many prior messages are sent to the LLM (default 10).
  • Optionally save conversations for question mining (off by default). When enabled on the settings page, conversations are stored as a private post type viewable in the admin, so you can see what visitors actually ask. Toggle via the Save Conversations setting or the hamelp_save_conversations filter.
  • Add an Auto-delete After (days) retention setting. A daily cron removes anonymous conversations older than the configured number of days (0 = never delete). Conversations from logged-in users are never auto-deleted.
  • Add an AI Overview Mode setting: Conversation (multi-turn, default), Single answer (no follow-up, lower cost), or Disabled. Use Single/Disabled to cut cost or stop the feature during a request flood. Also available via the hamelp_ai_overview_mode filter.
  • The front-end now reflects the mode: Single answer replaces the previous answer on each question, and Conversation shows a “Continue the previous conversation” toggle so visitors can either keep asking follow-ups or start a fresh conversation (which clears the thread).

2.2.3

  • Change CSS structure --wp--preset--color--* to fit with Theme design. Thank you bissy for Pull requests.

2.2.2

  • Add FAQ Search Box block (hamelp/search-box). The existing [hamelp-search] shortcode continues to work and now shares the same render logic.
  • Expose hamelp_render_search_box() as a public template function so themes can render the search box without going through the shortcode parser.

2.2.0

  • Remove bundled wp-ai-client Composer dependency. AI Overview now uses the wp-ai-client bundled with WordPress core, which requires WordPress 7.0 or later.
  • On WordPress versions earlier than 7.0, the AI Overview block and search form still render but submissions fail (no REST route). FAQ custom post type, incremental search, and other features remain functional.
  • Auto-rebuild the FAQ catalog on plugin activation, so the AI Overview works out of the box without manually running wp hamelp rebuild.
  • Add a Rebuild Catalog Now button to the settings page for manual catalog refresh.

2.1.0

  • Add user context to AI Overview for personalized responses.
  • Add whitelist-based user role filtering for security (hamelp_allowed_user_roles filter).
  • Add hamelp_user_context and hamelp_display_user_roles filters for customization.
  • Add development hooks support for local environment testing.
  • Remove bundled translations in favor of GlotPress (WordPress.org).

2.0.0

  • Add AI Overview Feature.
  • Bump minimum requirements: PHP >=7.4, WordPress >= 6.6

1.0.4

1.0.3

  • Bugfix and change glocal functions.

1.0.2

  • Fix taxonomy to be shown in Gutenberg.

1.0.1

  • Fix no vendor directory bug.

1.0.0

  • Initial release.

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