Captain Live Chat AI Auto-Reply Setup 2026 | WordPress Plugin Tutorial

Want to add a 100% FREE self-hosted live chat to your WordPress website in just 2 minutes - with zero monthly fees? In this video I’ll show you exactly how to install and set up Captain Live Chat (the best free alternative to Tawk.to, Crisp & Zendesk). All conversations stay in YOUR WordPress database. No external servers. No subscriptions. Works perfectly even on shared hosting. Let’s set it up together step-by-step. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 IMPORTANT LINKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ Watch this video:    • Add Free Live Chat to WordPress in 2 Minut...   ▶️ Get Captain Live Chat (Free): https://wordpress.org/plugins/captain... ▶️ Join Facebook Community:   / captaininfokit   ▶️ Join Discord:   / discord   ▶️ Follow on X: https://x.com/captaininfokit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • How to add free live chat widget on WordPress in 2 minutes • How the Inbox, notifications & visitor profile work • How to use Analytics & track agent performance • How to configure AI Agent, Knowledge Base & Canned Responses • How to manage agent permissions & automatic schedule • How to fully customize the chat widget • How MCP lets external AI tools manage your live chat ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ WHAT YOU NEED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Any WordPress website • Captain Live Chat plugin (100% free) 💡 All chat data stays in your own database. No external calls. Works on shared hosting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Small businesses wanting free live chat • Support teams that need full conversation history • Agencies managing multiple client sites • Anyone looking for a free Tawk.to / Crisp / Zendesk alternative ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏯️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - Introduction: AI Auto-Reply & AI Providers 0:20 - Enabling AI Auto-Reply 0:33 - AI Providers Section (Adding API Key) 1:00 - System Prompt Setup 1:20 - Knowledge Base 1:27 - Knowledge Base Processing Demo 1:50 - Saving Settings 2:00 - Live Testing on Frontend 2:08 - Question 1: How many plugins are available? 2:35 - Question 2: Active installations 2:53 - Question 3: How to use the plugin? 3:17 - Checking AI Replies in Admin Inbox 3:35 - Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 OTHER FREE CAPTAIN PLUGINS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶️ Captain Funnel → https://wordpress.org/plugins/captain... ▶️ Captain Widgets Kit → https://wordpress.org/plugins/captain... ▶️ Captain Feed for YouTube → https://wordpress.org/plugins/captain... ▶️ Captain Social Review → https://wordpress.org/plugins/captain... ▶️ Captain Advance Filter → https://wordpress.org/plugins/captain... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👍 Like the video, share it, and subscribe for more free WordPress plugins every week! 💬 Questions? Drop them in the comments below! #captainlivechat #wordpresslivechat #freelivechat #selfhostedlivechat #wordpressplugins #livechatplugin #tawktoalternative #crispalternative #zendeskalternative #freewordpresschat #wordpresssupport #livechatwidget #wordpresschatplugin #selfhostedchat #nocostlivechat #wordpress2026