Zactonz AI Connector for OpenRouter

Description

This plugin by Zactonz Technologies adds OpenRouter as an AI provider for the WordPress AI Client. It is built for the WordPress Settings > Connectors screen and for the plugin directory connector search, so a site owner who needs OpenRouter can find it, install it, paste a key, and have every AI feature in WordPress start using it.

OpenRouter is a routing gateway that exposes hundreds of models from dozens of labs behind one OpenAI-compatible API and one bill. This connector brings that catalogue into WordPress: every model your key can reach is discovered automatically, with vision, tool calling, and structured output detected per model from the OpenRouter catalogue rather than guessed.

Disclaimer: this connector is developed by Zactonz Technologies and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenRouter. OpenRouter is a trademark of OpenRouter, Inc.

Features:

• Text generation with every OpenRouter chat model your credentials can reach
• Automatic model discovery, with capabilities read from the provider rather than guessed
• Separate default model per capability, or automatic selection by the WordPress AI Client
• Vision input on models that accept images
• Tool calling on models that report function support
• Structured output with a JSON schema on models that support it
• Reasoning effort control for the default text model
• Cancellable server-sent event streaming for content, reasoning, and tool-call chunks
• Configurable request timeouts for text, embeddings, and images
• API key supplied by a PHP constant or an environment variable instead of the database
• An API base URL override for a proxy or a private gateway
• Redacted diagnostics and a WordPress Site Health connectivity test

Requirements:

• PHP 7.4 or higher
• WordPress 7.0 or higher
• An OpenRouter account and API key

External services

This plugin sends requests to OpenRouter, a third-party service, and does nothing without it. Requests go to the OpenRouter API at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1, or to the API base URL you set in the connector settings.

What is sent and when: the API key you configure, and the prompts, images, tool definitions and generation settings that a WordPress AI feature passes to the AI Client, each time such a feature runs a request through this connector. The connector also requests the model catalogue when its settings screen loads, when a WordPress AI feature asks which models are available, and when you run diagnostics or the Site Health test. It also sends your site URL and site name in the HTTP-Referer and X-Title headers OpenRouter uses for attribution, so requests appear under your site in the OpenRouter activity view. No other data is sent.

Service provider: OpenRouter (terms of service, privacy policy).

Technical details