AI Provider Connectors

AI Provider Connectors extends the WordPress AI Client and the core Connectors screen (Settings → Connectors) with four features:

• 11 ready-to-use AI providers. Connector cards for OpenRouter, Mistral AI, Cohere, Groq, xAI (Grok), DeepSeek, Perplexity, Together AI, Fireworks AI, Hugging Face and Replicate. Paste an API key, save it, and every feature that uses the WordPress AI Client (such as the AI plugin’s excerpt and summary tools) can route through that provider — exactly like the built-in Anthropic, OpenAI and Google providers.

• Test Connection button. A “Test Connection” button next to the “Connected” badge — and inside the expanded edit panel — for every supported provider. Clicking it re-validates the stored API key against the provider’s live API and shows the result in a tooltip.

• Custom providers. Add up to five OpenAI-compatible endpoints of your own — a hosted API that is not bundled, or a local model server such as Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM — and they behave exactly like the bundled ones.

• AI Providers dashboard. A Settings → AI Providers screen where you switch providers on or off, see at a glance which ones are connected, run connection tests, manage custom providers, and drag providers into the order the AI Client should try them. When a feature needs an AI provider, the first connected provider in your list that supports the task is used.

Bundled providers

• OpenRouter

• Mistral AI

• Cohere

• Groq

• xAI (Grok)

• DeepSeek

• Perplexity

• Together AI

• Fireworks AI

• Hugging Face

• Replicate

Already supported by Test Connection

• Anthropic, OpenAI, Google — when their respective AI Provider plugins are active.

Non-AI connectors (such as Akismet) are not live-tested because they require provider-specific verification flows.

Security and best practices

• All connection tests run server-side; API keys are never sent to the browser.

• Tests and the priority page are gated by the manage_options capability, the standard REST nonce, and admin nonces.

• Keys can be supplied via the Connectors screen, via a PHP constant, or via an environment variable — checked in that order. The names follow the WordPress convention {PROVIDER_ID}_API_KEY, for example OPENROUTER_API_KEY, HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY or REPLICATE_API_KEY; custom providers use their own ID the same way.

• Connectors and API keys are managed entirely by WordPress core; this plugin only registers providers with the AI Client, just like the official AI Provider plugins.

Source code

com/ah-polash/b-ai-provider-connectors

External services

When you click Test connection, open the AI Providers screen (which checks providers that have a key), or when the WordPress AI Client sends a prompt through one of the bundled providers, this plugin sends requests to that provider’s API using the API key you stored. Only providers you enabled and configured are contacted. Custom providers contact whatever endpoint you entered.

Each provider’s terms and privacy policy apply:

• OpenRouter — https://openrouter.ai/terms, https://openrouter.ai/privacy

• Mistral AI — https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/get-started/, https://legal.mistral.ai/terms/privacy-policy/

• Cohere — https://cohere.com/terms-of-use, https://cohere.com/privacy

• Groq — https://groq.com/terms-of-use, https://groq.com/privacy-policy

• xAI — https://x.ai/legal/terms-of-service, https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy

• DeepSeek — https://platform.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Terms%20of%20Use.html, https://platform.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Privacy%20Policy.html

• Perplexity — https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service, https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy

• Together AI — https://www.together.ai/terms-of-service, https://www.together.ai/privacy

• Fireworks AI — https://fireworks.ai/terms-of-service, https://fireworks.ai/privacy-policy

• Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/terms-of-service, https://huggingface.co/privacy

• Replicate — https://replicate.com/terms, https://replicate.com/privacy

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