Sell.AI Chatbot for WooCommerce

Changelog

1.4.6

• Fixed: a script error stopped part of the chat widget from running — the conversation history for logged-in customers, Pro Smart Triggers, the full-page quick buttons and variation sync now work.
• Fixed: conversation summaries failed with GPT-5 models; failed summaries are no longer retried every hour.
• Fixed: “Hide on pages” accepts page IDs as well as URLs; the settings show the real shortcode [sellai_chatbot]; all 12 industry templates from the setup wizard now apply; FAQ auto-replies no longer show an empty bubble; “Test API” checks the key you typed; “proactive” lead capture now offers the form after the first answer.
• Security: new installs get rate limits (50 messages per session, 120 per IP per hour) and a site-wide daily request limit (1000) that protects your OpenAI budget. Existing installs keep their current settings — nothing changes by itself; a notice on the plugin screens recommends the new limits. Messages are capped at 1000 characters, history sent to OpenAI is capped, and the global on/off switch now stops all chat requests. When the daily limit pauses the chat, the admin sees a notice.
• Sites behind Cloudflare, a load balancer or another proxy can pass the real visitor IP to the per-IP limit with the sellai_client_ip filter.
• Security: draft, private, hidden and password-protected products can no longer be shown or added to the cart through the chat.
• Security: hardened link formatting in chat replies, lead submissions (throttled, never overwrite existing leads, consent required), session cookies, CSV exports and API error handling — visitors never see raw API errors; the admin sees them as a notice.
• The API key is no longer printed into the settings page; admin pages and actions consistently require the manage_woocommerce capability.
• Privacy: retention periods for leads and conversation history (new installs: 365 / 180 days; existing installs: 0 = keep forever until you set a period, so no data is deleted by the update), personal data export/erase tools, privacy policy text, no customer queries in debug.log.
• Purchases attributed to the chat are now recorded server-side only (HPOS compatible).
• The Pro feature list in this readme now lists only features available today.

1.4.5

• Fixed: the chatbot and the “Test API connection” check failed with GPT-5 models (which are now the default), showing errors such as “✗ Error: [object Object]” when saving the API key. GPT-5 / o-series models use the Chat Completions API differently — they require max_completion_tokens instead of max_tokens and do not accept a custom temperature — so every request was rejected with an HTTP 400. Requests are now built correctly for these models (with minimal reasoning effort for fast, low-cost replies), while GPT-4-era models keep working as before.
• Fixed: API-error messages returned by the server are now displayed in full on the Settings and Setup Wizard screens instead of the placeholder “[object Object]”.

1.4.4

• Updated the AI model options to OpenAI’s current GPT-5 family. New default is GPT-5, with GPT-5 Mini as the fast/economical option; the old GPT-4o / GPT-4 Turbo / GPT-3.5 choices were retired from the pickers. Existing configurations keep working. Refreshed the API cost estimates to GPT-5 pricing.

1.4.3

• Compatibility: tested with WordPress 7.1.

1.4.2

• Added a SellAI_Knowledge_Base::count_synonym_pairs_by_source() helper so Pro can report how many synonym pairs it has generated, distinct from manually-entered ones.
• Supports Sell.AI Pro’s new “AI Synonym Auto-generate” feature (see Pro changelog), which now writes its suggestions into the same Synonym manager table shown in Search & AI → Synonyms.

1.4.1

• Fixed incomplete admin-panel translations: several strings introduced in recent releases (Search & AI page, product-keyword meta box, setup wizard, settings) were missing from the Polish, German, French, Spanish and Italian language files and always rendered in English regardless of the selected admin panel language. All are now translated.
• Sell.AI Pro’s admin UI (tab labels, License/RAG/AI Enrichment screens) previously had no translation files at all and always rendered in English. It now reads its labels through the free plugin’s language system, so it follows the same admin panel language setting.
• Fixed a stale menu reference in the product-keyword meta box hint pointing at the old “AI / Embeddings” page name.

1.4.0

• Admin menu reorganized: “Data” renamed to “Analytics” (translated across all supported languages). System now only covers Diagnostics (plus a License tab when Pro is active). Search index, Synonyms, and Pro’s Semantic Search (RAG) / AI Enrichment are consolidated into one new “Search & AI” page.

1.3.2

• Fixed the Synonym manager (System → Tools) — “Load synonym list” always returned an empty list and saving always failed, because the manual synonym storage class was referenced but never implemented. Implemented it, so admin-defined synonym pairs now save, load and power search as intended.
• Added a “Sell.AI Search Keywords” meta box on the WooCommerce product edit screen to view and manually edit each product’s search keywords (the same field used by keyword search/ranking and by Pro’s AI Enrichment tool).

1.3.1

• Admin panel redesign: native WordPress-style look (nav-tab navigation, metabox-style cards, standard buttons) while keeping the Sell.AI brand accent. Rarely-used settings are now tucked into collapsible sections so the Settings page is less overwhelming at a glance. Fixed two pre-existing CSS bugs (dashboard stat colour, danger-button colour) and an invalid inline style on the Data removal card.

1.3.0

• Added developer extension points (hooks and filters) so the Sell.AI Chatbot Pro add-on can extend the plugin without conflicts. No change to behaviour when the add-on is not installed.

1.2.3

• Security: the per-session message rate-limit transient key is now hashed, so a user-controlled session cookie can no longer be used to create arbitrary plugin-prefixed transient names.

1.0.2

• Setup wizard: step-by-step OpenAI API key guide with direct link and cost transparency
• Setup wizard: pre-filled suggested questions so chatbot looks good out of the box
• Setup wizard: “See chatbot on your store” button on the Done screen
• Setup wizard: welcome screen features corrected to free-only capabilities

1.0.1

• Free version: 200 messages/month limit with dashboard usage indicator
• Dashboard: monthly usage bar showing messages used, remaining, and upgrade prompt

1.0.0

• Initial release on WordPress.org