Zactonz AI Connector for Groq

This plugin by Zactonz Technologies adds Groq 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 Groq can find it, install it, paste a key, and have every AI feature in WordPress start using it.

Groq runs open models on its own LPU hardware and is built around one thing: speed. This connector makes GroqCloud a first-class WordPress AI provider, discovering every model on your account together with its context window, and keeping the request timeout short because Groq rarely needs a long one.

Disclaimer: this connector is developed by Zactonz Technologies and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Groq. Groq and GroqCloud are trademarks of Groq, Inc.

Features:

• Text generation with every Groq 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
• Structured output with a JSON schema 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 Groq account and API key

External services

This plugin sends requests to Groq, a third-party service, and does nothing without it. Requests go to the Groq API at https://api.groq.com/openai/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: Groq (terms of service, privacy policy).