Zactonz AI Connector for DeepSeek

This plugin by Zactonz Technologies adds DeepSeek as an AI provider for the WordPress AI Client. It is built for the WordPress Settings > Connectors screen and for the plugin directory connector search, so a site owner who needs DeepSeek can find it, install it, paste a key, and have every AI feature in WordPress start using it.

DeepSeek serves a fast model and a larger one, both with a very long context window and a thinking mode that can be turned up, down or off per request. This connector reads the DeepSeek catalogue for each model’s context window, input types and available thinking levels, keeps thinking output out of the published text while still recording it, and allows the longer request window a thinking reply needs.

Disclaimer: this connector is developed by Zactonz Technologies and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by DeepSeek. DeepSeek is a trademark of Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.

Features:

• Text generation with every DeepSeek chat model your credentials can reach
• Automatic model discovery, taking each model’s capabilities from the provider’s own catalogue wherever it publishes them
• Separate default model per capability, or automatic selection by the WordPress AI Client
• Vision input on models that accept images
• Tool calling on models that report function support
• JSON output on models that support it
• Reasoning effort control for the default text model
• Cancellable server-sent event streaming for content, reasoning, and tool-call chunks
• A configurable request timeout for text generation
• API key supplied by a PHP constant or an environment variable instead of the database
• An API base URL override for a proxy or a private gateway
• Redacted diagnostics and a WordPress Site Health connectivity test

Requirements:

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• WordPress 7.0 or higher
• A DeepSeek account and API key

External services

This plugin sends requests to DeepSeek, a third-party service, and does nothing without it. Requests go to the DeepSeek API at https://api.deepseek.com/v1, or to the API base URL you set in the connector settings.

What is sent and when: the API key you configure, and the prompts, images, tool definitions and generation settings that a WordPress AI feature passes to the AI Client, each time such a feature runs a request through this connector. The connector also requests the model catalogue when its settings screen loads, when a WordPress AI feature asks which models are available, and when you run diagnostics or the Site Health test. No other data is sent.

Service provider: DeepSeek (terms of service, privacy policy).