Zactonz AI Connector for xAI Grok

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

xAI publishes the Grok family for text, vision, and image generation. This connector reads the richer xAI model endpoint, so each Grok model arrives in WordPress with the input and output modalities xAI reports, and image models are wired to the image generation endpoint rather than chat.

Disclaimer: this connector is developed by Zactonz Technologies and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by xAI Grok. xAI and Grok are trademarks of X.AI Corp.

Features:

• Text generation with every xAI Grok 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
• Image generation on models that produce images
• Reasoning effort control for the default text model
• Cancellable server-sent event streaming for content, reasoning, and tool-call chunks
• Configurable request timeouts for text and images
• API key supplied by a PHP constant or an environment variable instead of the database
• An API base URL override for a proxy or gateway, within the hosts and ports WordPress permits outbound requests to
• Redacted diagnostics and a WordPress Site Health connectivity test

Requirements:

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• WordPress 7.0 or higher
• An xAI Grok account and API key

External services

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