AskMyPages – AI Search & Chat

AskMyPages is AI search and chat for WordPress, run as a hosted service by Hook & Plug. It upgrades the search box your theme already has to find pages by meaning, and adds an assistant that answers visitors’ questions from your own pages and text PDFs, citing the page or PDF page every time. When your site doesn’t cover something, it says so instead of guessing.

• Search and chat, not a chat bubble alone: your existing search box and results page get better; the chat is optional.
• PDFs included: handbooks, agreements, policies and price lists in your Media Library are searched and answered from, with the page number.
• Every answer cites its source, so visitors (and you) can check it in one click.
• Flat plans, no surprise bills: a free plan with no card, then fixed monthly caps; never per-token charges or prepaid credit.
• Your theme, your colours: match the site, or pick Light or Dark and your own accent and picture.
• Private by design: only the content you choose is sent, public unless you mark it members-only; nothing is used to train AI models; disconnecting deletes your index.

Set-up takes about a minute: install, click Connect, tick the content types.

Search that understands what people mean

Your theme’s existing search box and results page stay exactly as they are. AskMyPages decides which results show and in what order, matching meaning as well as exact words, so “help paying for a course” finds your education fund page. If the service is ever unavailable, WordPress search takes over automatically.

Answers from your content, with sources

A chat button appears on every page (on by default; turn it off any time). Visitors ask a question and get a short answer from your pages and PDFs, with numbered links to the sources. Follow-up questions work. If your content doesn’t cover something, the assistant says so instead of guessing. On the search results page, an answer card above the results turns the search into a short answer in one click, and follow-up questions continue in the chat.

PDFs included

Text PDFs in your Media Library become searchable too: agreements, handbooks, policies, menus. Answers link to the right page of the PDF.

Made for site owners, not developers

• No API keys to copy and no AI account to set up: click Connect, sign in with your email, done.
• A short Getting started checklist and a “Try it” box to test answers before visitors see them.
• The chat takes your theme’s colours, font and button shape, or a colour you choose.
• Change what the chat says: the button, the question box and its messages.
• Choose what goes into search: content types, categories to leave out, and a “Leave this out” box on each post, page and PDF.
• Choose who may use the search upgrade and the chat: everyone, logged-in users, or chosen roles. On paid plans, mark content members-only and it is answered from only for logged-in users with an allowed role.
• Change what the chat says, give the assistant a name, greeting and suggested questions, and place the chat inside a page with a shortcode.
• A connection check, also in Tools → Site Health, that spots hosting problems and explains the fix.

No surprise bills

Every plan has a monthly allowance of searches and AI answers, a limit on questions per visitor per day, and a spending cap. When the month’s answers are used, the chat pauses and search keeps working; you get an email at 80% and 100%.

Plans: Free and Starter

Everything in the plugin works on every plan. The AskMyPages service’s Free plan covers one site with 500 items (posts, pages and up to 150 PDF pages or 50 MB of PDFs), 1,000 searches and 100 AI answers a month, with no card.

AskMyPages Starter is for small business sites, associations and blogs: 5,000 items, 2,500 PDF pages, 25,000 searches and 3,000 AI answers a month, custom post types and WooCommerce products in search, meaning search updated as soon as you publish, a choice of answer tone, answers from chosen categories only, and a monthly budget cap you control. $29 a month or $290 a year, cancel any time. AskMyPages Business ($39 a month) is for document-heavy sites and stores: 10,000 items, 10,000 PDF pages and 2 GB of PDFs, 50,000 searches and 6,000 AI answers a month. Buy either on the website and install the plugin afterwards, or upgrade from the plugin’s own screen once it is connected. Pro and Agency plans (more sites, search analytics, white label) are arranged directly: hookandplug.com/askmypages.

Your content is never used to train AI models.

External services

This plugin connects to the AskMyPages service operated by Hook & Plug (Shipalu LLC) at https://api.hookandplug.com and https://app.hookandplug.com. Terms of use: https://hookandplug.com/terms. Privacy policy: https://hookandplug.com/privacy.

• When you click Connect, your browser opens app.hookandplug.com with your site’s address, name and the site’s public key, so you can sign in and approve the connection.
• After connecting, the plugin sends the published posts and pages you choose (title, address, text, category names) to api.hookandplug.com in signed requests, and checks daily that the service has the latest version. Private and password-protected items are sent only if you turn on members-only content, marked with who may see them; the service returns such items only to logged-in users whose roles you allow. Each request includes the plugin’s version number.
• If PDFs are included (AskMyPages → Content), the plugin uploads each PDF from your Media Library. The service reads its text and does not keep the file.
• The service uses OpenAI to understand searches, write answers and check questions and answers for harmful content. Your content and visitors’ questions are sent to OpenAI for those purposes only; they are not used to train AI models.
• If you turn on chat, visitors’ browsers send the questions they type in the chat to api.hookandplug.com, using your site’s public key. On the search results page, the visitor’s search is sent the same way when they click the answer card’s button (or straight away, if you turn on answering question-like searches on a paid plan). Nothing is sent until a visitor asks. A conversation is kept for 30 minutes so follow-up questions work, then deleted. To apply the daily question limit, the service keeps a one-way hash of the visitor’s network address for one day; the address itself is not stored. The plugin sets no cookies; the chat remembers the conversation in the browser tab (session storage).
• When a visitor uses your site’s search box, their search terms are sent to api.hookandplug.com to fetch results. No visitor names, accounts or cookies are sent by the plugin; the service sees the request coming from your web server. You can turn the search upgrade off in AskMyPages → Search.
• The connection check (AskMyPages → Connection and Tools → Site Health) contacts api.hookandplug.com to confirm it can be reached.
• Nothing is sent before you click Connect, and nothing is sent after you disconnect.