Universal ChatGPT Plugin Tutorial, Use Cases & Prompts

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Do you want to learn more about the Universal ChatGPT Plugin?

In this ChatGPT plugin tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, how to install the plugin, and what the Universal ChatGPT Plugin can do.

We are also going to explain what to do when this ChatGPT plugin is not working and anything else important that you need to know about the Universal ChatGPT Plugin.

What can you do with the Universal ChatGPT Plugin?

Universal ChatGPT Plugin is a ChatGPT plugin that enables access to web pages, analyze PDFs, generate QR codes, and more. With this plugin, you can perform various tasks and interact with external applications inside ChatGPT. Here are some of the things you can do with the Universal ChatGPT Plugin:

1. Generate a QR code for a website.
2. Find the top 10 trending topics on Weibo.
3. Identify the top 5 hackers in the United States according to the HackerOne leaderboard for a specific year.
4. Visit a webpage and provide a summary of its content.
5. Discover the top 10 trending videos on Douyin.
6. Identify the top 3 hackers in a specific country according to the HackerOne leaderboard for a particular quarter.
7. Generate a QR code for a given text.
8. Find the top 5 trending topics on Weibo in the last hour.
9. Visit a webpage and provide a summary of the top news story.
10. Check the current time.

These use cases demonstrate the versatility of the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, allowing you to perform various web-related tasks, gather information, and generate QR codes conveniently within the ChatGPT interface.

How to use the Universal ChatGPT Plugin?

Here is how to use the Universal ChatGPT Plugin:

  1. Open the ChatGPT website
  2. Sign in to your ChatGPT account
  3. Make sure that you have enabled ChatGPT plugins in your account.
  4. Select GPT-4 model from the model selector.
  5. Click on the ChatGPT plugin icon
  6. Select Plugin store.
  7. Search for the Universal ChatGPT Plugin
  8. Click on ‘Install’ to add the Universal ChatGPT Plugin to your ChatGPT account.

Now, also make sure that if you want to use the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, you have to use the GPT-4 model and you also have to enable the plugin. (currently, only 3 ChatGPT plugins can be enabled at the same time).

Now, all you have to do is use a Universal ChatGPT Plugin prompt to activate the plugin.

If you are not sure what plugin prompts you can use to activate the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, make sure to check out our ChatGPT plugin database here.

Can’t install the Universal ChatGPT Plugin

If you can’t install the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, here is how to troubleshoot and find out why you can’t install and use this specific plugin.

1.Make sure you have upgraded to a GPT Plus subscription as ChatGPT plugins are currently only available for Plus subscribers

2. Next, you also have to make sure that the ChatGPT plugins are enabled in your ChatGPT account.

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3. It is possible that the Universal ChatGPT Plugin is not available in the ChatGPT plugin store anymore temporarily because of some technical issues with the integration.

If you have already installed the Universal ChatGPT Plugin but it still not generating the right response, check out the next section.

Universal ChatGPT Plugin not working – how to fix it?

If the Universal ChatGPT Plugin is not working properly or you get error messages instead of a ChatGPT response, here are some ways to fix it.

  1. Click on the ‘Regenerate response’ button

Keep in mind that the ChatGPT plugin is still a beta feature, so bugs and other technical issues can occur frequently when you try to make any ChatGPT plugin work.

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However, in a lot of cases, the ‘Regenerate response’ button can help you fix a lot of errors.

  1. Check if you have selected the ChatGPT plugin mode

Once you have installed the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, you also have to make sure you are using the Plugin mode in ChatGPT if you want to use the Universal ChatGPT Plugin

Currently, the browsing mode and the plugin mode can’t be used at the same time as you can see on this screenshot:

ChatGPT plugin mode enabled

  1. Make sure you have enabled the Universal ChatGPT Plugin

Once you have selected the plugin mode, also make sure you have enabled the ChatGPT plugin.

Keep in mind that only three ChatGPT plugins can be enabled at the same time.

  1. Universal ChatGPT Plugin giving me a bad response or output.

If you can’t get the Universal ChatGPT Plugin to give you the desired output, the easiest method is to ask ChatGPT directly using the GPT-4 model how to get better responses from the Universal ChatGPT Plugin.

  1. Check other reasons why ChatGPT is not working

It is also possible that there aren’t any issues with the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, but ChatGPT has some technical issues in general. So as a best practice test, if ChatGPT is working without the plugin mode enabled.

If ChatGPT without the plugin mode enabled is not giving you a response as well, then most likely the bug is not related to the Universal ChatGPT Plugin.

How to uninstall Universal ChatGPT Plugin?

If you no longer want to use the Universal ChatGPT Plugin, here is how to uninstall it:

  1. Open and sign in to ChatGPT.
  2. Select GPT-4 model from the model selector.
  3. Click on the ChatGPT plugin icon
  4. Select Plugin store.
  5. Search for the Universal ChatGPT Plugin
  6. Click on ‘Uninstall’ to remove the Universal ChatGPT Plugin.

Official description of the Universal ChatGPT Plugin in the plugin store

Enables access to web pages, analyze PDFs, generate QR codes, etc.

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