Security
Shield — AI login protection.
Auto-locks IPs after failed logins, runs AI threat analysis on the cheapest model (< $0.01/day), and pushes one-tap block buttons to your phone.
Learn about ShieldFor WordPress owners done paying monthly for their own chatbot
PressBot runs your WordPress site with AI and never charges per message.
The free plugin puts an AI chatbot on your site. Pro adds an admin agent with 112 tools that writes posts, rewrites your SEO meta, runs your WooCommerce store, and blocks brute-force attacks — by chat, from your dashboard, or from Telegram.
You connect your own Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, or DeepSeek key and pay that provider directly. A typical conversation costs under a cent. PressBot takes no cut, adds no proxy, and charges nothing per message. Pro is $29 a year, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Free chatbot up front · 112-tool operator in Pro · Claude + Gemini + GPT + DeepSeek · Built by greenscript.dev
Follow the ghost
Two faces · one plugin
Answer your visitors free. Run the whole site for $29 a year.
Visitors get answers. You get leverage. The free chatbot handles front-door questions, while Pro adds an admin agent that can publish content, update plugins, run store ops, and keep the site moving.
Free · Visitor chatbot
Answer visitor questions without adding another SaaS bill.
Streaming replies, dark mode, knowledge base, WooCommerce product search, and full branding control. It is the easiest way to make your site more helpful before you touch the operator side.
Hi! I can answer anything about the menu, hours, or bookings. What are you looking for?
Do you have a vegan tasting menu?
Yes — our 7‑course vegan tasting runs Wed–Sun. Want me to check tonight’s availability?
- Unlimited conversations
- Claude, Gemini, GPT, or DeepSeek — your choice of model
- Built-in knowledge base, conversation logs, CSV export
Pro · Admin agent
Run the site from chat, not from ten tabs.
Content, plugins, settings, security, WooCommerce, AI images, and recurring work live in one WordPress-native agent. Reach it from wp-admin, Telegram, MCP-compatible IDEs, and the visitor chat.
Audit security and update outdated plugins
→security_audit()12/12 ok
→get_plugins()2 outdated
→update_plugin(yoast-seo)22.5 → 22.6
→update_plugin(cf7)5.9.1 → 5.9.2
- Content pipeline with AI images, critique, categories
- Scheduled automations with Trusted Plan review
- Telegram bot, MCP server, 7 alert types
What's new · v1.8.7 · September 2026
Quiet Shield, where it belongs. Notes, not files.
PressBot 1.8.7 puts Quiet Shield on a shared card with Shields as home — Shield Settings first, Quiet Shield next in the same save form. Knowledge Base becomes readable note cards plus a message-like composer. GPT Image 2.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash join the catalog.
- Quiet Shield home — Shields holds the full card (Settings, then Quiet Shield); Settings keeps a compact twin with a deep link.
- Knowledge as notes — title, snippet, edit/delete cards and a composer. Markdown upload stays advanced.
- September catalog — GPT Image 2.5 Flare/Sunburst, Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash.
Live demo · right here
Try the front door first. No signup, no install.
This is the visitor chatbot side of PressBot. Ask how it fits agencies, store owners, or your own workflow, then decide whether the admin agent is worth bringing in.
112 tools · 20 categories
It does the WordPress work you repeat every week.
Drafting and publishing posts. Rewriting Yoast titles and meta descriptions in bulk. Checking orders and stock. Installing and updating plugins. Auditing security. All of it by asking, without leaving WordPress.
Content
12
AI Visibility
7
Yoast SEO
4
ACF
7
Media & AI images
5
Plugins
7
WooCommerce
10
WP Booking Pro
3
Menus
4
Taxonomy
3
Users & comments
3
Settings
3
Theme
2
Cron events
3
Security
8
Analytics
2
Knowledge base
6
Automations
5
Feedback & memory
3
Explain CTAs
2
Where operators feel it fastest
It blocks attacks, works from your phone, and answers your AI editor.
The dashboard is only the start. Pro matters most when it protects the site, keeps work moving from your phone, and lets external AI clients reach real WordPress actions.
Post: “Friday deals”
Draft saved. Publish?
Published
Mobile
Telegram bot — WordPress in your pocket.
All 112 tools from your phone. Send a photo, get it in your media library. Get pinged when something goes wrong, fix it without opening a laptop.
See Telegram setup
> create post “Launch”
→ tool: create_post()
✓ Post #214 created
For developers
MCP server — expose tools to your IDE.
Pair PressBot with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any MCP-compatible agent. Free includes 13 read-only tools; Pro unlocks the full 112.
MCP server docsShipping fast
Built differently. Updated often.
We are not shipping novelty features for the sake of it. Recent releases keep pushing PressBot toward one job: becoming a more useful operator layer for real WordPress work.
Quiet Shield has a home. Knowledge reads like notes.
- Shared Quiet Shield card: Shields is home (Shield Settings first, Quiet Shield follows); Settings keeps a compact twin with a deep link.
- Knowledge Base notes as cards plus a message-like composer. Markdown file upload stays advanced.
- GPT Image 2.5 Flare/Sunburst, Gemini 3.8 Flash, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash join the September catalog.
Agents can connect without an LLM key
- Provider-free read-only MCP maintenance: baseline, recent changes, change timeline, health probe, and change-risk assessment.
- Agent discovery docs ship in the plugin zip (
docs/for-agents.md,docs/for-agents.json, WordPress maintenance skill). - Free MCP catalog is 13 tools (from 8) and no longer depends on premium ToolExecutor; enablement persists.
Quiet Shield, Sentinel, and category tools
- Quiet Shield (Pro) — routine blocked-login noise stays in the digest; real-account attacks and high/critical Guardian findings still interrupt.
- Temporary Mute 1h from Telegram, plus a per-site daily immediate-alert budget (default 10). Sentinel Local Black Box records observed changes, health probes, and causal traces — local-only.
- Category correction tools for MCP and the Admin Agent require confirmation with preview, snapshot, and restore. DeepSeek Flash and OpenAI for Shield analysis.
Sources you can trust, feedback you can act on
- Public source cards from validated retrieval and published same-site links — not model-hallucinated URLs.
- Thumbs-down opens a recovery prompt with Incorrect, Incomplete, or Couldn’t find it plus an optional note.
- Visitor feedback stays out of the AI transcript and shows up in exports and backups.
Page-aware chat, MCP drafts, and Search Console
- Visitor chatbot keeps the thread across same-site page changes, with an Answering about context bar and Start over.
- Pro
run_content_pipelinefor MCP and the admin agent queues a full draft pipeline and never publishes. - Pro Google Search Console reporting for the admin agent and MCP — reuses the GA4 service account via
get_search_console_report.
Claude 5 and GPT-5.6, the week they landed
- Adds Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 5, the GPT-5.6 family (Luna, Terra, and Sol), and DeepSeek V4 Pro.
- Sites pinned to a retired model are moved to the closest current one from the same provider automatically.
- The admin agent now reasons before acting for better tool selection; the visitor chatbot stays fast and cheap by design.
Why it fits serious WordPress teams
It asks before it changes anything on your site.
Bulk edits and automations arrive as a plan you approve first, with a preview of every change and a way back. Three decisions that matter when you hand an AI the keys to a live site.
01 / BYOK
Your keys. Your data.
API keys are AES-256 encrypted on your server using your WordPress salts. Conversations never leave it. We don’t see them, store them, or train on them.
02 / Direct calls
No proxy. No markup.
Your server talks straight to provider endpoints like api.anthropic.com, generativelanguage.googleapis.com, api.openai.com, or api.deepseek.com. You pay your provider directly at their published rates — nothing in the middle.
03 / WordPress-native
It speaks the platform.
Built on WordPress APIs, hooks, capability checks, and database tables. No SaaS account, no external dependencies, no black boxes — just a plugin you install and own.
Pricing
$29 a year. Less than most chatbots cost per month.
Free is the visitor chatbot, forever. Pro is the admin agent. Every paid tier is the same product — you are only choosing how many sites you run. Compare that to $29 per month for a hosted chatbot that still is not allowed to touch your site.
Free
$0 · forever
Visitor chatbot only
- Unlimited conversations
- Claude + Gemini + GPT + DeepSeek
- 10 knowledge entries
- No admin agent
Most popular
Pro · 1 site
$29 /yr
Best for solo operators and owner-managed sites
- Admin agent · 112 tools
- Scheduled automations + trusted plans
- Telegram bot + 7 alert types
- Shield · WooCommerce · AI images
- Unlimited knowledge entries
14-day money-back guarantee
Business · 5 sites
$59 /yr
Best for freelancers and small agencies
- All Pro features
- Up to 5 site activations
- Priority support
14-day money-back guarantee
Agency · 50 sites
$99 /yr
Best for shops with a real client fleet
- All Pro features
- Up to 50 site activations
- Priority support
14-day money-back guarantee
14-day money-back guarantee · cancel anytime
FAQ
Honest answers.
What does “Bring Your Own Key” actually cost me?
You pay your AI provider directly at their published rates. Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and DeepSeek are paid usage-based options, while Google Gemini has a generous free tier with no credit card. A typical PressBot conversation costs about $0.01 with Claude Haiku 4.5, can be free on Gemini Flash, or can be pushed even lower on DeepSeek for the public chatbot. PressBot itself never touches your spend.
Will the agent actually change things on my site without asking?
Destructive actions trigger a confirmation dialog before they run. Scheduled automations can be set to “review-required” mode — the agent prepares a Trusted Plan, and nothing touches your site until you approve it from the Automations workspace. Capability checks gate every tool by your WordPress role.
Is my data private?
API keys are AES-256-CBC encrypted at rest using your WordPress security salts. Your server makes direct calls to the AI provider — nothing is proxied through PressBot. We can’t see, store, or train on your conversations.
What’s the difference between Pro, Business, and Agency?
Only the number of sites you can activate the license on. Pro is 1 site, Business is 5, Agency is 50. Every paid tier includes the full feature set — admin agent, Telegram bot, Shield, WooCommerce, scheduled automations, AI images, MCP server, the lot.
Can I install PressBot from WordPress.org?
No — PressBot is distributed through Freemius. Click “Download free” above and you’ll get a zip you upload to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin. Updates flow through Freemius automatically.
What are the technical requirements?
WordPress 6.2 or higher, PHP 7.4 or higher, and an API key from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, or DeepSeek. Standard shared hosting is fine — no Node, no Docker, no cron daemon required. WordPress’s native cron handles scheduled automations.
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Four ways teams ship a WordPress chatbot in 2026.
Same plugin underneath — four landing pages that walk through the specific reasons teams come looking for a chatbot. Pick the angle that matches what you are solving.
01
WordPress Chatbot
The WordPress chatbot, end to end
How the visitor chat, BYOK pricing, and the admin agent fit together in one plugin.
Read the guide 02 Free WordPress ChatbotStart free, bring your own AI key
What the free tier actually covers, where the upgrade lives, and why there are no per-message fees.
Read the guide 03 WordPress AI ChatbotThe public + private AI surface
Grounded answers for visitors, typed tools for admins, one chat layer for both.
Read the guide 04 WordPress RAG ChatbotPlug retrieval into the WordPress chat
Connect your retriever once, answer from transcripts, manuals, docs, courses — with citations.
Read the guideReady when you are
Start with the chatbot. Bring in the operator when you need leverage.
PressBot is built for people who actually run WordPress sites. Use the free chatbot now, then upgrade when content, maintenance, store ops, or security work starts piling up.