Add an AI Chatbot to WordPress
Put an AI support agent on every WordPress page with one script tag — no plugin sprawl, no FTP. It answers from your own content and hands off to your team.
What connecting WordPress gets you
WordPress powers a large share of the web, and putting an AI support agent on it doesn't mean a plugin sprawl, a developer, or FTP access. One script tag loads the agent on every page of your site, and it answers from the knowledge base you have already built — the pages, posts, and docs you have published — then hands the conversation to your team when a person is needed.
Because the widget is a single asynchronous script, it doesn't fork your theme or lock you into a plugin you have to keep updated. It loads after your content, so it never blocks the page from rendering, and it appears as a chat bubble in the bottom-right on every page at once.
| Without the agent | With the agent | |
|---|---|---|
| A question at 2am | Waits for the next working day | Answered immediately, 24/7 |
| The same question, asked again | Re-typed by your team | Answered from your own pages |
| A question the agent can't resolve | Sits in an inbox | Handed to your team when it's time |
Where the snippet goes
The agent's one-line snippet goes in your site's footer: the "Footer scripts" or "Scripts in Body" box of a header-and-footer plugin, or the custom-code area of your theme, so it sits just before the closing </body> tag. It belongs in the footer, not the head: that placement is what lets it load without holding up the rest of the page.
Before you start
You'll need admin access to your WordPress dashboard and your chatbot's embed snippet, which you copy from the Install tab with your chatbot id already filled in. If you don't have a workspace yet, create one free at app.evoriqa.com (no credit card needed), and the Install tab is waiting for you inside.
On a classic theme, a header-and-footer plugin such as WPCode or Insert Headers and Footers is the no-code route. On a block theme, you can add the snippet through a child theme's footer.php or your theme's custom-code area instead.
Running a shop on this site? The paste is identical, but what you train the agent on and which actions you turn on are not — that's covered on the WooCommerce page.
Confirming it's live
Open your site in a fresh tab and look for the chat bubble in the bottom-right. Click it and ask a real question to check it's pulling from your knowledge base rather than giving a generic reply. If the bubble doesn't appear, two things catch most people: the snippet ended up in the <head> instead of the footer, or a caching plugin is still serving the old page. Clear the cache and reload.
Make it yours
Once it's live, match it to your brand in the Appearance tab: your colors, logo, and opening greeting. If you'd rather build the AI into the page than float a bubble over it, the Install tab also has an inline search-bar variant you can drop wherever you want it. On the Pro and Business plans you can remove the "Powered by Evoriqa" badge as well.
Common questions
Do I need a plugin for this? Not necessarily. A header-and-footer plugin such as WPCode or Insert Headers and Footers is the easiest no-code route, but if your theme has a custom-scripts option, or you're on a block theme, you can use those instead. The snippet doesn't care how it gets into the footer.
Head or footer? The footer. The snippet belongs just before </body>, not in the <head>, and placing it in the head is the most common reason the bubble doesn't appear.
It's still not showing. What now? After ruling out the head-versus-footer mistake, clear any caching plugin. Caching is the other usual culprit: it can keep serving the page from before you added the snippet.
WordPress-specific limits
The most common WordPress snag is caching: aggressive page or object caching can keep serving a version of the page from before you added the snippet, so a hard refresh and a cache purge are the first things to try when the bubble is missing.
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