About this plugin
Port8 is an AI chat assistant that answers your visitors’ questions using your own content — your pages, posts and, if you run WooCommerce, your product catalog.
This plugin puts the assistant on your site. Without it you would paste a script tag into your theme or into a snippet plugin; with it, you connect the site once and the widget is there.
What this plugin does
- Loads the Port8 chat widget on your site’s front end.
- Lets Port8 record which assistant this site is linked to.
- Reports the plugin’s own version and connection state so the Port8 dashboard can show whether it is installed.
What this plugin does not do
- It stores no passwords and no API keys.
- It never sends anything to Port8 on its own — no page content, no orders, no visitor data.
- It adds no scheduled tasks, no database tables, and no tracking.
External service
This plugin is the front end for Port8, a hosted AI assistant service, and requires a Port8 account.
ai, and the chat itself runs against Port8’s servers. That means Port8 receives what a visitor types into the chat, in order to answer it.
Separately — and only after you explicitly approve it in your own WordPress admin — Port8 reads your published content through WordPress’s REST API so the assistant can answer from it.
That access is granted through WordPress’s own application-password screen and is revoked the same way, under Users → Profile → Application Passwords. This plugin is not involved in it and never handles those credentials.
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