Installation
Basic Installation Instructions for Jays Chat Assistant plugin:
Below is a brief overview on how to install the plugin:
Upload Jays Chat Assistant and activate it. Once activated:
- Get your Google Gemini API key from https://aistudio.google.com/
- Go to Jays Chat Options in your WordPress Admin
- Enter your API Key
- Chatbot System Instructions – enter in prompt instructions on how you want the bot to interact with the visitor. If searching the site enter (search the website) in your prompt instructions.
- Search Results Message (optional) – when the bot searches your site and finds information you can tell it what / how to say it “Here’s what I found”
- Admin email – at end of conversation or nightly conversations will get emailed to you. Select where you want them to go.
- Assistant Icon – select the icon you want to show in your chatbot assistant
- Content types – select which content types you want to index that the bot will be able to search
- Next: Go to Jays Chat Assistant => Manage Bots => Edit default bot. Welcome Messages (optional) – enter a series of intro questions you want to ask the visitor (one per line)
