{"id":36,"date":"2026-09-09T04:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/36\/download-plugin-shortcut\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:30:50","slug":"download-plugin-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"nirohelp_doc","link":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/ai-assistance\/download-plugin-shortcut\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Download Plugin” shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Download Plugin<\/strong> button under NiroHelp \u2192 AI \u2192 Chatbot<\/strong> wraps your chatbot snippet into a tiny WordPress plugin. This is the easiest way to get the chatbot onto a customer’s site – they never edit a theme file or paste code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Download<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What you get<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Clicking the button downloads nirohelp-chatbot.zip<\/code>. Inside is one small plugin whose only job is to add your chatbot to the footer of every page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your current settings are baked in at the moment you click.<\/strong> What you get matches what is on screen, saved or not. Change something later and you re-download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installing it on a customer site<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. In the customer’s WordPress admin, go to Plugins \u2192 Add New \u2192 Upload Plugin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Pick the nirohelp-chatbot.zip<\/code> file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Click Install Now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Add<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

4. Then, Click Activate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"activated<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The chat launcher appears in the corner on every page. There is nothing else to configure – the plugin has no settings screen of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updating it later<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is no auto-update.<\/strong> To change the agent name, colour, business hours or anything else on a site that already has it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \n
  1. Change the fields on your<\/strong> NiroHelp \u2192 AI \u2192 Chatbot<\/strong> screen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Re-download the zip.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. On the customer’s site, deactivate and delete the old plugin, then upload the new one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    This or the plain snippet?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
      \n
    • Use the plugin<\/strong> when a non-technical site owner has to install it themselves and you would rather they did not touch theme files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Paste the snippet<\/strong> when you or your developer already manage the site’s footer, or when the site is not WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Both produce exactly the same widget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"nirohelp_product":[],"nirohelp_topic":[9],"class_list":["post-36","nirohelp_doc","type-nirohelp_doc","status-publish","hentry","nirohelp_topic-ai-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_doc\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_doc"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nirohelp_doc"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"nirohelp_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_product?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"nirohelp_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirohelp.com\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nirohelp_topic?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}