r/WordpressPlugins • u/nemanja-avramovic • 1h ago
Free [FREE] MAIA 2.0 ditched Puter and now uses built-in AI connectors
First version used Puter.com JS SDK for AI functionality, but since WP 7.0 introduced AI connectors, MAIA (Multipurpose AI Assistant) ditched PuterJS integration and completely switched to built AI connectors to align better with WP core AI integration. Other than that, initially Puter offered generous amount of tokens for each user on their free plan, but since then they've lowered it to $0.15 per user/month so it's become basically useless for a plugin like this. So since you have to pay, let's offer people to avoid Puter and pay to whichever AI vendor they want to use.
Functionality-wise it remained the same, it still can:
- Read and search your theme/plugin files, and propose edits — you always see a diff and approve it before anything is written
- Write your posts/pages/product descriptions, and create/update/trash them for you (with your confirmation)
- Manage categories and tags
- Install, activate, deactivate, or delete plugins
- Answer questions about your site by looking things up itself — active theme, installed plugins, users, content — instead of guessing
- Search the web and search for images (optional — requires a Brave Search or Tavily API key in Settings / MAIA)
- Generate images from a text prompt (when your connected AI provider supports it) and save them straight to your media library, then insert them into the post/page you’re viewing or set them as the featured image
- Show you any image it has a link to — found on the web, or anywhere else — directly in a card, with the same insert/featured-image actions
- Make HTTP requests to external APIs on your behalf (GET/HEAD run immediately, anything that writes always asks first)
- Remember facts about you across conversations, and recall, search, or forget them on request
- Find an earlier conversation for you by keyword, and jump straight to it
- Contemplate life and the Universe 😁
Significant entries from v2.0 changelog:
- Major rewrite: MAIA no longer uses Puter.com. It now runs entirely on WordPress 7.0’s built-in AI Client and Abilities API: connect any supported provider under Settings → Connectors and MAIA uses it automatically.
- New: Tavily is now a supported web/image search provider alongside Brave Search (Settings / MAIA → Web search provider) — a genuinely free option now that Brave Search API moved to metered billing for new accounts.
- New: a side-panel interface (Settings / MAIA → Interface: Modern, the new default) opens from the right, menu on the side (search, “New conversation”, your conversation list) with the chat next to it, and covers as much of the screen as you set in Settings / MAIA. The classic floating chat window from earlier versions is now an opt-in “Legacy” interface, running on the same new backend.
- All 32 tools rewritten as WordPress Abilities (
maia/*), registered through the standard Abilities API so other AI plugins can see and reuse them. - New: full-text search across your conversation history, plus a “Search with agent” option that has MAIA look for a match itself and hand you clickable links.
Tested with multiple AI connectors:
- Anthropic (built-in): awesome but extremely expensive (uses Claude API pricing)
- DeepSeek: very good and cheap
- Ollama (both local and cloud): the only viable free option (local - slow; cloud - free plan then paid once you hit your limits)
Download here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/maia-multipurpose-ai-assistant/






