About this plugin
BotBard AI Editor turns a sentence into a change to your site. You describe what
you want, BotBard proposes it, you look at it in a preview only you can see, and
it goes live when you press Publish.
What it can change
- Pages and posts — text, headings, buttons, block layout
- New posts and pages, created as drafts you review first
- Publishing, scheduling, and status changes
- Categories and tags, chosen from the terms your site already has
- Block theme templates and template parts, including your header and footer
- Colours, spacing, typography and borders, through the block settings
WordPress already supports
- Media, added to your Media Library
- Make Hero — a hero section generated for a page, built from structured text
and video that BotBard’s service produces
What it will not change, ever
Your theme’s PHP. Your theme’s JavaScript. Any plugin’s code.
Any file on your
server. This is not a limitation that can be switched on: the plugin contains no
code that writes a file, and its build refuses to package if a
filesystem-writing function appears anywhere in it.
Everything BotBard does goes through WordPress’s own functions —
wp_update_post(), wp_insert_post(), wp_set_object_terms() — with a
capability check on every object it
touches and a checksum that refuses to overwrite work someone else did while
your change was waiting.
Classic themes
If your site uses a classic theme, its header, footer and templates are PHP
files, so BotBard AI Editor does not change them. Pages, posts, media,
categories, scheduling and block styling all work normally. The editor tells
you which kind of theme you have rather than offering something it cannot do.
When BotBard cannot help
If you ask for something that genuinely needs code — a PHP hook, a custom
shortcode, tracking JavaScript, a plugin installed — BotBard says so and points
ai. Nothing
downloads, installs or activates itself.
External services
This plugin requires a BotBard account and sends data to BotBard’s service to
generate changes. It does not work without it.
ai (operated by BotBard)
- Service: https://www.botbard.ai/
- Terms of Service: https://www.botbard.ai/terms.html
- Privacy Policy: https://www.botbard.ai/privacy.html
The plugin contacts this one service for four things.
1. Signing in and your account.
Triggered when you type your email address on the BotBard screen, and each time
you open that screen while connected.
Sent: your email address, your site’s address, and a one-way fingerprint of your
installation (a SHA-256 hash of your site URL and install path). While connected,
only your installation credential.
Returned: a one-time code by email, then your credential, your plan name and your
remaining allowance.
2. Preparing a change (the AI Editor).
Triggered only when you press Send on a request you typed.
Sent: your request; the content of the single page, post or template you are
editing; your site’s title, tagline, language and text direction; the colour
json; the names
of the blocks registered on your site; and the names of your existing categories
and tags.
Returned: a list of proposed changes described as WordPress operations — never
code, never files.
3. Make Hero.
Triggered only when you press Create hero.
Sent: your site address, the page’s address, title and ID, your language and text
direction, and the style options you chose. If your site is not reachable from
the internet, BotBard cannot look at the page itself, so it asks — every time,
with a Continue button — before sending a snapshot of that page’s rendered HTML,
stylesheets and images.
Returned: hero text (a headline, a subheadline and button labels), layout
settings, and the names of the video and image files it produced.
4. Downloading generated media.
Triggered when you add a finished hero to a page.
Sent: your installation credential and the name of one file belonging to one of
your own hero jobs. The plugin builds this request itself and accepts no URL from
the service.
Returned: the image or video, which is saved to your Media Library.
What is never sent: your theme’s PHP or JavaScript files, any plugin’s code,
php, pages you are not editing, your users, your visitors’ IP
addresses, or any analytics or telemetry. This plugin contains no tracking.