AI-Powered Search for WordPress: FE Search AI v1.3.0 Released — Ask Questions About the Page You’re Viewing, Plus Background Sync

We have released version 1.3.0 of FE Search AI, an AI-powered search and RAG chat plugin for WordPress.

What’s new in version 1.3.0

Improvements

• Page context support
  • The chat window now displays the current post or page as a context chip, letting visitors ask questions about “this page” right away
    
  • The chip can be removed with a single click, giving visitors explicit control over what the conversation covers
  • Fine-tuned chip rendering, including label wrapping and remove-button coloring
• Background real-time sync
  • Embedding and summary API calls that used to run when saving or publishing a post are now queued and processed in the background via WP-Cron
  • Publishing no longer waits on AI API responses, making the admin experience noticeably faster
  • The sync queue processes sequentially in the background, so the index stays up to date
• Security hardening
  • Stored secrets — API keys, license keys, and the Yahoo! App ID — now use libsodium authenticated encryption (sodium_crypto_secretbox / XSalsa20-Poly1305) in a new versioned format
  • Tampered ciphertext is now detected and rejected; values saved with the previous format (AES-256-CBC) are still decrypted transparently and re-encrypted automatically, so no re-entry is required
  • A dedicated encryption key can now be defined via the FE_SEARCH_AI_ENCRYPTION_KEY constant in wp-config.php, making secret storage resilient to WordPress salt rotation
  • Added the fe_search_ai_migrate_secret_targets filter, allowing add-on plugins (such as Pro) to register their own encrypted options for migration
• Multilingual support
  • Automatic integration with Polylang / WPML / Bogo String Translation, making custom chat UI texts translatable
  • Added the fe_search_ai_display_texts filter for dynamically changing display text
• Other changes
  • Registered ［fe-search-ai］ as the canonical chat shortcode
  • Added an opaque fallback background to the consent overlay to prevent display issues
  • Admin API status messages now wrap long IDs
  • Significantly expanded the documentation site (Pro feature configuration reference, MCP integration guide, external service setup, index health, troubleshooting — in both English and Japanese)

For full details, please see the release page:
https://github.com/firstelementjp/fe-search-ai/releases/tag/v1.3.0