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Nerdy Posts

v1.1.0 · by sitesteward

Give your visitors AI-powered post summaries and a chat panel — powered by ChatGPT, organized by category, cached to keep costs low.

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About this plugin

Nerdy Posts brings AI-powered content interaction to your WordPress site. It connects your posts to ChatGPT, giving visitors the ability to get AI-generated summaries and chat with your content — organized by post category.

What it does

  • Generates AI-powered summaries of your posts
  • Lets visitors interact with and ask questions about your content through a slide-in chat panel
  • Organizes AI features around your existing post categories
  • Caches summaries so the AI service is only called once per post, keeping costs down and performance up

Built for the real world

  • The chat interface loads as a modal or slide-in panel — not in the bottom-right corner where it would conflict with live chat widgets and other plugins
  • Strong CSS scoping designed to hold up across themes
  • Built on an extensible architecture so additional AI services can be added without rewriting the core plugin
  • Follows WordPress coding standards and best practices

Getting started

  1. Install and activate the plugin
  2. Enter your ChatGPT API key in the settings
  3. Choose which post categories to enable
  4. Your visitors can now get summaries and chat with your content

An OpenAI API key is required. API usage costs are determined by your OpenAI plan.

External Services

This plugin connects to the AI service you configure — OpenAI or Anthropic (Claude) — to generate AI-powered post summaries and to respond to visitor chat messages. Only the service you select and enter an API key for is contacted.

What is sent and when:

  • When a visitor clicks the “Summary” button, the post title and content are sent to the configured AI service to generate a summary. The result is cached in post meta so the API is only called once per post.
  • When a visitor sends a chat message, the post content, their message, and the recent conversation history (up to 6 messages) are sent to the configured AI service.
  • In the plugin settings, when an administrator enters an API key, the plugin calls the configured service’s list-models endpoint to populate the Model dropdown. Only the API key is sent; the result is cached for about 12 hours.

No data is transmitted on page load. All content API calls are initiated by explicit visitor action.

Service provider: OpenAI, L.L.C.

Service provider: Anthropic, PBC.

Third-Party Libraries

This plugin bundles MicroModal (v0.4.2), a lightweight accessible modal library.

  • License: MIT
  • Source: https://github.com/ghosh/Micromodal

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