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Ask My Content – AI Search Chatbot

by Pavel Web Design LLC · AI

AI-powered Q&A chatbot floating chat, block and shortcode that answers questions based on your own site's pages and posts.

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⚠ Few reviews

Health

B 83/100

Few reviews

Active installs

20+

≈28 estimated

Momentum

-30%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “ai” for “ask”. “ai” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “ask” sits at #10 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 77 average across 3,394 AI plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.5%

of downloads still active

At least 20 of 4.3K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median AI plugin keeps 1.4%, across 1,010 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other AI plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

This plugin shipped 24 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Details

Version
1.10.0
Last updated
16d ago
Added
2025-10-25 · 1 yr old
Requires WP
5.9
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.4

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

75 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Support resolution

Update recency 100/100

Updated 16 days ago

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

Support resolution 0/100

0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months

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Daily downloads

Since 25 Oct 2025 · 371 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-30% vs prior 30d
1330 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.1K · peaks are release surges

88631 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

24

releases in the last 12 months

23d ago

latest release · v1.10.0 · 8 Oct 2026

27

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.10.0 · 8 Oct 20261.9.0 · 5 Oct 20261.8.0 · 28 Sep 20261.7.0 · 1 Sep 20261.6.0 · 31 Jul 20261.5.2 · 27 May 20261.5.1 · 20 May 20261.5.0 · 19 May 20261.4.0 · 12 May 20261.3.0 · 30 Apr 20261.2.2 · 2 Apr 20261.2.1 · 27 Mar 20261.2.0 · 25 Mar 20261.1.0 · 19 Mar 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.6 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈28

Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 30.

At the current install trend, crossing 30+ in roughly 145 days.

Install history since 25 Oct 2025

2031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Lewis E. Moten III
    9mo ago

    I’m using Ask My Content – AI Q&A Chatbot (v0.8.3 at the time of this review) on a WordPress site that serves as a long-running, chronological archive of my work and life—hundreds of posts and pages, plus multiple podcast feeds. I’ve indexed just over one million tokens, as many entries are detailed reflections. As the archive expanded, traditional navigation and search were no longer sufficient. I needed a way for visitors (and myself) to query the site conversationally and surface summaries or meaningful connections across years of content. Setup is refreshingly straightforward. Indexing is simple, performance is fast, and the plugin serves as a clean bridge between WordPress content and the underlying AI service. As long as you understand that responses are limited to what exists on your site, the answers are generally useful and contextually accurate. Since my initial review, a new release addressed one of my main concerns — improved handling of links in responses — which significantly enhances usability. The developer was also responsive in clarifying compatibility constraints around third-party service integrations. It’s clear there are some architectural limits involved, but I appreciated the transparency and engagement. There are still areas where growth would be welcome. Appearance customization remains somewhat limited, making deep theme integration more challenging. Reindexing must be triggered manually; automatic or scheduled reindexing would be a major quality-of-life improvement for content-heavy sites. Overall, this is a practical and thoughtfully designed solution for large or archival WordPress sites. It fills a gap I couldn’t find addressed elsewhere in the plugin directory and solves a real problem without unnecessary complexity or recurring costs. I’m encouraged by the active development and look forward to seeing how automation and UI flexibility evolve in future updates. This topic was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by Lewis E. Moten III. Reason: New version and correspondence addressed my concerns

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

7 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "AI-powered Q&A chatbot floating chat, block and shortcode that answers questions based on your own site's p..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 9 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 9 of 9 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you run"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Elementor, Gutenberg, WP-CLI.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 4 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 4,801 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "knowledge base", "virtual assistant" do not.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-08-31 30+ → 20+ down after 22 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-09 20+ → 30+ up after 29 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-11 10+ → 20+ up after 14 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-27 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-24 10+ → 20+ up after 35 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-20 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-05-19 10+ → 20+ up after 14 days in tier
  8. 2026-05-05 20+ → 10+ down after 24 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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