JOVION AI Assistant

JOVION AI Assistant adds an AI chat panel to your WordPress admin. Ask JOVION to help with content, SEO, marketing, code, or just answer questions about your site setup. Bring your own AI: Google Gemini (free tier available), OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Groq, or a fully self-hosted local model via Ollama / LM Studio — with a local model, requests go only to the server you run.

Features:

• Admin AI chat panel in wp-admin — ask about your site, content, SEO, marketing or code
• Bring your own provider: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Groq, or a local model via Ollama / LM Studio
• Grounded answers: JOVION can read your posts, pages, plugins, themes, taxonomies and ACF fields before replying
• Read-only file inspection — read a file, list a directory
• Audits on demand: site health, media library, SEO inventory, and maintenance reports
• Run WordPress updates from chat — plugins, themes and core — plus install, activate and deactivate plugins
• Editor Copilot in the block editor — rewrite, fix grammar, translate, summarize, and suggest titles and excerpts
• AI Playground — a tool-free workspace for quick AI tasks, with saved prompt templates
• Persistent memory: notes you ask JOVION to remember, reused in later chats
• Editable persona: set JOVION’s tone, scope and safety conventions yourself
• Optional visitor-facing chatbot — off by default. Add it to any page with the [jovion_chat] shortcode; when enabled it applies origin checks and per-visitor and site-wide rate limits. The chat panel can show a small “Powered by JOVION” credit link — off by default, switched on only if you choose to
• A daily count of the requests JOVION has sent to your AI provider
• Optional Connections screen, to facilitate clients running an Agency Hub: pair this site with a JOVION Agency Hub (part of JOVION Agency, a paid product — see below) so the agency that looks after your site can read its health and pending updates. Nothing is shared until you create a pairing, and you can revoke it at any time
• Branded admin UI using Space Grotesk and JetBrains Mono, served from the plugin — no external font requests

The admin assistant, the Playground and every setting are available only to users who can manage options. The Editor Copilot is available to anyone who can edit posts, so authors and editors can use it on their own drafts. The visitor chatbot is the one public-facing part, and it stays switched off until you enable it.

Choosing an AI Provider (and understanding rate limits)

JOVION works with five providers: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Groq, or a local model (Ollama / LM Studio). You only need ONE. A few things are worth understanding before you pick, because every provider’s FREE tier has limits that are easy to hit during normal use.

The most important thing to know: free tiers are for trying a provider out, not for daily production use. AI agents like JOVION make several API requests for a single chat message (one for the reply, plus one per tool the assistant uses to get something done), so a handful of chats can add up to dozens of API requests quickly. If you plan to use JOVION regularly, add billing to your provider key or choose a provider with a higher free allowance.

Google Gemini — Easiest to start (free key, no card needed at first). JOVION’s default Gemini model, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, has the most generous free allowance (about 500 requests a day at the time of writing); other Flash models allow only about 20 a day on the free tier. When you pass the limit you will see an “HTTP 429 / quota exceeded” message — that is Google’s limit, not a JOVION error. To lift it, add billing in Google AI Studio (Flash is very cheap pay-as-you-go — typically a fraction of a cent per request). Note: Google’s published free-tier limits change periodically; check https://ai.dev/rate-limit for the current numbers and your live usage.

Groq — A strong free choice for everyday use. Much more generous free limits than Gemini’s free tier and very fast, using open-weight models. Good if you want to stay free without hitting a wall after a few chats.

OpenAI / Anthropic Claude — Pay-as-you-go from the first request (no free tier to run out of). The most predictable option if you don’t want to think about daily caps; you simply pay for what you use.

Local (Ollama / LM Studio) — No key, no cost, no limits, and requests go only to the server you run. Requires you to run a local model, so it suits self-hosters comfortable with that setup.

One key per app. If you use the same Gemini key in more than one place (for example, another app on the same Google project), they SHARE the same daily quota and compete for it. If JOVION seems to hit limits faster than your own usage explains, check whether another app is using the same key/project, and give each app its own key (or its own Google project) so they don’t compete.

A 429 / “rate limit” / “quota exceeded” message is never a JOVION bug. It comes directly from your AI provider and means you have reached that provider’s free-tier limit for the minute or the day. The fix is always on the provider side: wait for the window to reset, add billing, switch providers, or use a separate key.

External Services

JOVION talks to no service of its own. It contacts the AI providers you have saved a key for, in the situations listed below. Nothing is sent on activation or on a schedule. When you ask JOVION to install or update a plugin, theme or WordPress itself, WordPress’s own installer and update check contact WordPress.org, exactly as they do from the Plugins and Updates screens.

AI providers (you choose one; hosted providers need your key). A request goes to the provider you have made active when you send a chat message, run a tool, test a connection, use the Editor Copilot on a post (the selected text or the post content), run a Playground prompt, or when a visitor uses the site chatbot. For the admin chat, the request contains your message and the conversation so far, any screenshot you attach, the results of tools JOVION runs for you (for example post content, or a file you asked it to read), your saved Memory notes, and a short description of the site so answers fit it: the site name and address, WordPress and PHP versions, timezone, your first or display name, the active theme, and the active plugins with their versions. The site chatbot sends only the visitor’s messages, the site name and the persona you set. Your key goes with each request:

• Google Gemini — https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms — https://policies.google.com/privacy
• OpenAI — https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use — https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
• Anthropic Claude — https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms — https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
• Groq — https://groq.com/terms-and-conditions/ — https://groq.com/privacy-policy/
• Ollama / LM Studio — a server you run yourself, on your own computer or a server you control. Requests go only to the address you enter. If that address is a tunnel (for example Cloudflare Tunnel), the traffic passes through the tunnel provider on its way to your computer.

Model lists. When you open the Setup screen, JOVION asks each hosted provider you have saved a key for which models it currently offers, so the Model menu only lists models that exist. This sends your key to that provider’s model-list endpoint and nothing else. The answer is kept for 12 hours (a failed attempt is retried after 15 minutes), and the Refresh models button asks again on demand. This only happens when an administrator opens that screen or presses the button.

Broken image check (optional). If you turn on the broken-image check in the SEO inventory, JOVION sends a HEAD request (no page content, no key) to each image address found in your posts and pages, to see whether the image still loads. Those addresses can point to any host your content links to. The check runs only when you ask for it.

Voice. The admin chat’s microphone uses your browser’s built-in speech recognition. JOVION sends no audio itself, but some browsers (for example Chrome and Edge) send the audio to their own vendor’s servers to recognise it. Spoken replies use your browser’s built-in voices.

Connections (optional). The Connections screen is there to facilitate clients running an Agency Hub: it lets a site be monitored by a JOVION Agency Hub, which is part of JOVION Agency, a paid product. The client site itself needs only this free plugin. If you create a pairing on the Connections screen, the site you paired with can call this site’s REST API with the pairing token and read a status report: the site name and address, the WordPress, PHP and JOVION versions, which plugins, themes and core have updates pending (with their current and new versions), and whether the site uses HTTPS. The request comes from that site; this plugin sends nothing out. Nothing is readable until you create a pairing, and revoking it on the same screen cuts off access immediately.

Bundled Resources and Credits

Everything bundled with this plugin is licensed compatibly with GPLv2 or later.

Fonts (served from the plugin; no external font requests are made):

• Space Grotesk — SIL Open Font License 1.1 — https://github.com/floriankarsten/space-grotesk — https://openfontlicense.org/
• JetBrains Mono — SIL Open Font License 1.1 — https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsMono — https://openfontlicense.org/

JOVION Pro (a separate plugin)

Everything described above is part of this plugin and works without a licence key. JOVION Pro is a separate plugin, available from jovionwp.com, that adds its own tools alongside it:

• Pro (1 site) — the chat bubble on every page with no shortcode, plus its appearance controls (avatar, panel colours, custom CSS, position), post/page creation and editing from chat, categories and tags, royalty-free image search and AI image generation, full file management, plugin deletion, server-side voice transcription, AI meta descriptions, extra Copilot actions (continue writing, meta descriptions, slugs), Playground run history, unused-image cleanup, and guided capability modules. Email support.
• Agency (3 sites) — everything in Pro, plus the Multi-Site Agency Hub (monitor client sites from one dashboard), scheduled fleet audits with email/Telegram digests, and a white-label visitor chatbot. Email support.

Pro’s licence key is entered in the Pro plugin; this plugin never asks for one.

If JOVION Pro is installed but not yet switched on, or switched on without its licence key, this plugin shows a setup notice naming the missing step, so someone who has installed Pro is not left with it silently doing nothing. These notices appear only when JOVION Pro is installed, and disappear once both steps are done.