Content and Indexing

Location: SensAI > Content & Indexing
This page controls which content the AI learns from and how it indexes your site for accurate responses.

Indexed Content

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Purpose:
Choose which types of content the AI should learn from. All content types available on your website are displayed automatically.

Common Content Types:

• Posts – Blog posts (usually enabled)
• Pages – Static pages like About, Contact (usually enabled)
• Products – WooCommerce products (usually enabled)
• Media – Images, videos, PDFs (usually keep disabled)

Setup Instructions:

1. Toggle ON to include a content type
2. Toggle OFF to exclude a content type
3. Click Save Changes
4. Click Build Content Index to apply changes

Index Private Content

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Purpose:
Control whether private or password-protected posts are included in the AI index.

Default: OFF (secure – private content excluded)

ON: All content, including private/restricted posts, is indexed

What it covers:

• WordPress private posts (normally only visible to editors/admins)
• Password-protected posts

Security Warning:
If enabled, the AI can answer questions about protected content without requiring passwords. Only enable if:

1. Chat is restricted to logged-in users
2. All logged-in users should have access to this content

Recommendation: Keep OFF unless you have a specific reason.

Index Membership-Restricted Content

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Purpose:
Control whether content restricted by membership plugins is indexed.

Default: OFF (secure – member-only content excluded)

ON: All content, including member-only content, is indexed

Supported Plugins:

• WooCommerce Memberships (100% coverage via official API)
• MemberPress (95% coverage via official API)

Detection Includes:

• Post-level restrictions
• Category/taxonomy restrictions
• Shortcode-based restrictions ([mepr-restrict], [wcm_restrict])
• All membership plan configurations

Security Warning:
If enabled, the AI can answer questions about member-only content without checking membership status. Only enable if:

1. Chat is restricted to logged-in users
2. All logged-in users should have access to member content

Other Plugins:
Developers can use the wpai_is_content_restricted filter hook to add custom restriction detection.

Recommendation: Keep OFF unless required.

Build Content Index

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Purpose:
Re-processes all selected content and updates the AI’s knowledge.

Pre-flight Check:
Before indexing starts, SensAI:

• Tests your OpenAI API key
• Verifies you have sufficient credits
• Shows an error message if credits are insufficient

When to Use:

• First-time plugin setup
• After changing content types to index
• After updating security/restriction settings
• If AI responses are outdated
• After bulk-importing content

Process:

1. Click Build Content Index
2. Read the confirmation message (mentions API costs)
3. Click Continue
4. API credit check runs automatically
5. Wait for completion (progress displayed)

Time Estimate:

• Small sites: ~1–5 minutes
• Large sites: ~10–30 minutes

Important:
Indexing uses OpenAI API credits to generate embeddings.
Estimated cost: ~$0.10–0.50 per 1,000 pages/products

Error Handling:
If indexing fails (insufficient credits, rate limits, etc.), a clear error message appears. No unusable data is created.

Clear AI Response Cache

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Purpose:
Deletes all stored AI responses to ensure fresh answers.

When to Use:

• Content has significantly changed
• Prices or important information updated
• You want fresh responses for all questions

Behavior:

• The first visitor asking a question after clearing will experience normal response time
• Response is cached again automatically

Note: This operation is instant and does not use API credits.