Best Live Chat Plugins for WordPress

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I recently needed to implement a live chat plugin on a WordPress site, so I had to do the obligatory research for good plugins in this area. Let's see what I found out...
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I recently needed to implement a live chat plugin on a WordPress site, so I had to do the obligatory research for good plugins in this area.

It seems that there are quite a number of WordPress live chat plugins, however most of them are plugins that help you integrate a popular live chat service into your site, and not native WordPress plugins.

I still found a few major WordPress live chat plugins however, and I can recommend them to you:

WordPress Live Chat Plugin

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My favourite plugin right now. Chat with your customers on your site for sales and support easily, and beautifully.

  • You DON’T need to pay monthly payments
  • Install on your own WordPress and start to use it
  • Very clean code
  • Cute skin (fully customizable)
  • Create your own operators
  • Chat logs, of course
  • More than one operators can reply the same user’s question
  • Visitors can fill out contact form when all operators are offline
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Wise Chat Pro plugin for WordPress

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Wise Chat Pro is an advanced and highly popular chat plugin for WordPress. The plugin requires no additional (or paid) server. You install it once and use it as long as you want.

The core features of the Wise Chat Pro:

  • unlimited chat rooms,
  • unlimited number of users (the real limit is you server limit),
  • WordPress users authentication integration,
  • external authentication via Facebook, Google+ and Twitter
  • full appearance customization options, themes, avatars and mobile friendly interface,
  • moderation and bans, flood control,
  • role-based access control
  • opening hours and days
  • emoticons, sound notifications
  • private messages between users,
  • Multisite compatibility,
  • bad words filtering mechanism,
  • multimedia support – posting images, file attachments nad YouTube videos
  • easy localization
  • … and much more.

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LiveChat

LiveChat is a powerful yet easy to use live chat and help desk software for customer service and online sales. It allows you to communicate with your visitors directly from the website. With LiveChat, you know which page your customer is currently viewing. Using this information, you can communicate in a more personalised way.
 
More key features:
– Advanced reporting and analytics capabilities.
– Handling chats coming from multiple websites.
– Over 70 ready-to-use integrations with 3rd party software.
– Build-in ticketing system.
– Mobile apps for iOS, iPad and Android devices.
– Personalized or automated chat invitations.
 
Install LiveChat plugin on your WordPress to quickly place a live chat function on your website. Start chatting with visitors within a few clicks.

Comm100 Live Chat

Comm100 Live Chat is the enterprise-grade live chat software for website. Comm100 Live Chat enables you to have a 360 degree view of your website visitors and provide them with live support.

Its free WordPress chat plugin is specifically designed for you to quickly install Comm100 live chat software onto your WordPress site. With the WordPress Chat Plugin, you can have live chat monitoring code and the live chat button on your WordPress site pages with just a few simple steps. The live chat for WordPress will boost both your sales and customer satisfaction.

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ClickDesk

ClickDesk for the first time in the industry integrates live chat and voice chat directly into your IM – you can conveniently take chats and answer calls on your IM on computer or mobile phone. Receive chats, calls and email ticket notifications on Google talk or Skype.

Lite help desk allows you to manage all your emails and offline chats from a simple and quick ticketing interface. Optional Push2Call has a browser phone and provides local access number in more than 40 countries for your visitors to reach your business. Optional Help Desk allows you to manage all your customer emails easily.

What is ClickDesk live chat plugin?

ClickDesk social plugin lets you embed ‘Live Chat’ button, online and offline forms on your website to let your website visitors click to chat with you directly. Visitors can also make a call to your operator directly by using our free local access numbers in 40+ countries or from their web browser.

With integrated help desk, your agents can access all the emails and offline chats and answer your customer queries via email. Operators also receive IM notifications when a new ticket is created, updated or assigned to them.

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Quick Chat

Another good chat plugin is Quick Chat, which basically enables you to have a chatroom on your site.

WordPress chat plugin supporting private chat, chat rooms, avatars, user list, words filtering, smilies, caching plugins and more. Quick Chat is self hosted chat solution. This means that your chat messages are stored inside your local WordPress database and are totally under your control. Because of that there are no limits or monthly fees for number of chat users or messages, these are limited only by your web server capabilities.

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Other Non-WordPress Solutions

One of the best non WordPress solutions is Zopim, a live support service which you can integrate into your WordPress site within 5 minutes. You just need to paste a piece of code into your template and you’re good to go. Zopim has a free entry plan that is fine for small sites, and just works brilliantly, so I highly recommend it.

Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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65 Responses

  1. I hope this isn’t stepping on anyone’s toes or violating your comment posting, but would you consider adding www.paypercallplugin.com to your list?

    It is a customer developed pay per call WordPress plugin that is easy to install and whenever a customer on your WP site orders a call the purchase goes directly to your Paypal account.

    It’s easy to use and can be very profitable.

  2. Let me present a new tool for real time help desk and customer care – revolivechat.com You can use it to present products to your clients in real time in the chat and user can even buy products in the chat window!

    Consultant can give discounts in real time and help user to finish and complete shopping in the chat window of revolivechat! Totally new customer care and live chat software

  3. I am Using LiveAdmin live chat wordPress Plugins on my website last years. this plugin work for me best in low price. check out LiveAdmins Wg Live chat plugins.

  4. Hi Jean, very nice compilation. Chat plugin is very important, specially for business website today.
    Recently i developed a new plugin to connect directly with WhatsApp. So users can click and even if they don’t have your contact, will automatically open WhatsApp with you contact number and a message you want.
    It’s easy and fast to configure. You’ll see a floating WhatsApp icon in every page.

    I would apreciate if you could test and give me a feedback

    WhatsApp Chat WP is a free plugin and you can find in WordPress repository.

    Check it out

  5. I moved my site from joomla to wordpress and I start to using the live chat plugin from activehelper, great and easy plugin and the best part is I can still manage old joomla sites and wordpress sites all together.

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  7. I must say, this is a great collection of chat plugins. I use live chat support help in live desk and free chat by wp.chat.com. It entails well skilled with great flexibility

  8. AM using this great chat plugin. Its free to use reliable great tariff easy to access and comfortable with multifunctional futures you can visit the link below for more details:

  9. This is one of the best post i have read about Live chat, it is very important for your blog this days, you need to be able to respond fast enough when your blog visitors ask questions. I use Live Chat, Support, Sales plugin on WordPress and it is awesome.It has a live support, web analytics and online marketing application. It is very easy to install and use and it is free.

  10. Impressive and informative Blog post chat i really like it. I Came across this chat few months back it has great accessory and its free to use it also as the ability to support off line notification and it as unlimited language use age.

  11. Thanks for very valuable information about Chat plugins. I bought already chat plugin which helped me to decide much problem in site regarding sales of my shop. It plugin realy increase sales. I recommend

  12. Hi,

    We have been using Wise Chat for 2 months and it is a very impressive solution! Check it:

    There is no need to pay for a server, it has no limits to the number of chat rooms and users, it filters bad words, support images and files posting, moderation, private messages, WordPress multisite and much more!

    It boosted user engagement on our website!

    Cheers
    Robert

  13. Hey Bilqees, you could check Tagove which is offering multi-channels support platform like live chat, video chat, co-browsing and screen sharing. It is very easy just install plugin and start using all features.

  14. I need chat plugin for my website like facebook. Presently I’m using wordpress common plugin for chat services. Kindly if you know any best plugin for chat with user name and password option please share here. Thanks

  15. I have read your post very informative and i got new updates about live chat plugins. i have also read some advanced plugins for live chat, you may like to read

    Thanks for share this informative post.

  16. Hey Jean, this is great article! Live chat is an important part of ecommerce website. But for non-technical it is very hard to understand the technical things so plugin comes as rescuer for them. We have great product called and also have plugin

  17. Hi Jean. Thank you for your blog. Did you know wordpress users can now use Facebook Messenger to support their own customers directly on their website? Zotabox has a free, easy to use integration tool here: .

    Supporting your customers via Facebook Messenger has many advantages. It is free, convenient and both parties have a permanent chat history. Messenger also supports payments from customers. With 800 million monthly users it is wise for wordpress owners to get on the bandwagon today. Please tell us what you think.

  18. Hi Jean, I enjoyed this article as it compares a lot of Click4Assistance’s competitors, so now I have a greater understand of what they offer; however I was surprised that as a company we were not included. Here at Click4Assistance we provide Live Chat Software that includes embedded and pop-up window, mobile compatibility, and is a 100% customisable solution.We are the UK’s leading live chat provider, storing all of our data in the UK. If you have the chance to then visit our website, maybe we can make it onto your next comparison list? www.click4assistance.co.uk

  19. I work with website psychology, so I must admit I didn’t like the current crop of chat tools. Which is why I have just released an unlimited version of perceptive chat which works with Telegram. If you’ve not seen Telegram yet, go to it’s a replacement for WhatsApp, Viber etc..

    We spent quite a lot of time developing a user-orientated live chat tool that focuses on usability and high availability. Yes, we have a monthly subscription of $9.95 but you can use the coupon BACON and get 10% off for life. I can’t convince you if you don’t look, so head over to

    Matt

  20. Well, you surely missed out on Live2Support. It has been into the market since 2003 and has been extending chat plugins for wordpress since 2005. The plugins are to use and integrate and the chat widget itself is very catchy and attractive for website visitor to locate and click to seek live chat assistance. One may know more on it at :-

  21. Hey there Jean,

    Thanks for sharing your experience on the aforementioned chat plugins. There are plenty more out there, but I guess it wouldn’t be even possible to list them all 😉

    Little suggestion at the end: for those of you expecting more social approach and considering users database integration (SSO) I would recommend installing Chatwee ). Although IT’S NOT A LIVE SUPPORT SOLUTION, it used for building more complex communities on websites.

    -Thanks, Pawel

  22. Nice list for online business to get best live chat plugins. These plugins are client friendly and online business owners gets more sale through live chats.

  23. Good article on best live chat software plugins for WordPress. We are the UK leading provider of live chat software and have seen many businesses using some of the providers mentioned above come to us and use our software on their WordPress websites.

    For more information visit

  24. Hi Jean

    Great to see a write-up of your experiences with chat plugins for wordpress and if you may, we would like to introduce you to our product/plugin too 🙂

    We have our wordpress plugin published on the WP directory and it would be great to see your thoughts about us. Our plugin can be found at :

    Nicole
    ChatNox.com

  25. I’ve used quite a number of these live chat solutions and found that the easiest one is Live Chat by Social Intents. Here’s the plugin:
    They have a free option and it’s super simple to get started – simply install the plugin, enter a couple fields and you’re active!

  26. I have used some of wordpress plugins on my websites they all are good but currently I ma using visitlead which is really great. you can try it free for 14 days. I highly recommend this.

  27. Great plugin repository here. If you have a second, please check out SYNCRO at syncrowebchat.com. We’ve developed this tool to allow webmasters to field sales and support web chats through their mobile phone using text message.

  28. Yo estoy utiilzando LiveBeep desde hace mucho tiempo en mi sitio web www.mauddesign.es y también tiene plugins para wordpress, estoy muy contenta con esta herramienta, todos los usuarios contactan conmigo a través del chat y aunque no esté en línea permite al usuario enviarme un mensaje que luego recibo en mi bandeja de entrada, va fantástico, lo recomiendo!

  29. I used to use Zopim until I came across the WordPress Live Chat Plugin which I think is pretty flawless. It is super light weight and has a very good user interface. I agree with it being in first place without a doubt. I hope that they add the ability to have the platform integrate with Skype at some time in the future, that would be a very welcome addition to the plugin.

    Good post and a great list. Thanks

  30. I accidentally came across inside , and after looking through their site www.inside.tm/magento-chat, it morphs a business website into a virtual storefront so business personnel can see and help their site visitors in real-time using chat.

  31. I am using ActiveHelper LiveHelp Plugin for my main WordPress website and two Joomla sites all at the same time, is very impressing.

  32. Hi everyone! If you’d to add a live chat, try out Offerchat! I am using it because it is FREE and efficient. Check out their website. 🙂

  33. Does anyone has ever bought WordPress Live Chat from Screets with regular license?
    Can it be used on multiple website or domain?

    1. No, Regular License is for one domain. If you want to use it more than one website, you will want to buy a Regular License for each domain.

  34. I’m surprised people needed a plugin for this. I found it was extremely easy to add the code to my wordpress site without any plugins. Of course I’ve been using your chat code for several months now, so I did have to fidget around with it for a few minutes before figuring it out. It was basically just copy and paste the generated code into the sidebar widget as text.

  35. Thanks Jean. My fave live chat plugin is actually CraftySyntax as it can be easily integrated into any site. Of course it needs a MySQL database but you can use your WordPress one anyways. It now has mobile chat support too.

    Will check out some of the ones listed here.

  36. Having a hard time getting the conversations to flow through my IM system with Google Talk.

    Any known difficulties or overlooks on my part?

  37. And how about buddypress? What of them do you prefer? Because im needing a chat like facebook, where i talk only with my friends.

    Good post 😉

  38. I can suggest another alternative to Zopim. It’s called Live Agent. Check it out
    You can install wp plugin from

    It is possible to create free account with little limitations (number of chats per month).

    To answer MAtthew question:
    Does this Zopim plugin allow for secure chat?
    >> yes it does. You will have SSL access to your (also free) account form the start.

    check it out

  39. Jean,

    Does this Zopim plugin allow for secure chat? Basically a guarantee that logs are not kept on the server? Any XMPP plugins you recommend?

    1. Matt I suggest you have a chat with the guys at Zopim on their site to ask them this, I don’t know whether they provide such a guarantee tbh.

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