Hey everybody, this is my first time posting here. I’m a developer and I started using bbPress about two years ago to build a forum.

I just published my first plugin, which is a context-aware AI bot that responds to @mentions or specific keywords. It reads the post and gathers information from other topics and replies to users as a specified account.

It just went live on the WordPress plugin repository so I thought I’d share it here. Completely free and open source and whatnot.

AI bot for bbPress

I’m using it on my own forum if you wanted to see it in action. This is my bot user: AI forum bot on Extra Chill

Would love to hear what you think! This is my first-ever published plugin so I’m pretty excited about it.

[@neon67 Participant 2 weeks ago]

Is it safe to say that the bot’s behavior will be similar to @Grock on X?

[@talqa Blocked 1 week, 6 days ago]

I’m going to try it and I think it’s great to have add-ons like this.

[@extrachill Participant 1 week, 6 days ago]

@neon67 yes it’s actually inspired by the @grok system on X. I should have mentioned that in my original post.

It’s basically that for your forum, except it uses ChatGPT instead of Grok and your forum content instead of twitter content.

You will need your own API key from OpenAI.

It’s fun to play with, you can give it any personality you want.

In the future I would like to add support for multiple bots within this system.

There is also a helper plugin that gets installed on a remote site, so you can get context from another site you manage too. But that is not on WordPress yet.

[@neon67 Participant 1 week, 4 days ago]

Thanks for your efforts! I think the plugin would be much more popular for testing if you added free AIs there. And the ability to limit yourself not only to the forum topic, but also to a special professional section. This solves the problem of spam and empty talk.

[@extrachill Participant 1 week, 4 days ago]

@neon67 thanks for checking it out & the feedback!

That is a good idea, and got me thinking of more ideas.

1. Add support for more AI platforms, including ones that have free models (Gemini, OpenRouter)
2. Add a setting for Forums / Topics that the bot will reply in
3. Add an optional user whitelist so that bot will only reply to certain users
4. Add a blacklist of users the bot will never reply to

I will make an update soon.

[@neon67 Participant 1 week, 4 days ago]

I’d be happy to take part in testing! I have a large live forum with over 10,000 topics. Let me know when the free AI model appears. P.S. – I’m going to test wordpress.org— ai-engine plugin – but more with the MCP purpose for administration

[@extrachill Participant 1 week ago]

@neon67 I will post back here when I ship an update.

It may be a little while, because I have some travel coming up.

But I’m glad to see that people are interested in this project and it is very motivating to keep working on it!

Cheers