Click-to-chat and floating contact buttons
Click-to-chat and floating-button tags show how much of this category centers on quick-access chat and contact options.
- Chat overlap: 95 plugins share the chat tag, while 54 share click-to-chat and 42 share floating-button.
- Joinchat: Has 700,000 active installs, making it one of the category’s most installed plugins.
- Click to Chat: Has 600,000 active installs; Social Chat has 200,000.
- Contact-oriented names: Call Now Button has 200,000 active installs, while All-in-one Sticky Floating Contact Form, Call, Cli has 40,000.
WhatsApp plugins for WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a substantial point of overlap, with 143 plugins appearing in both groups.
Commerce-oriented names among the widely installed plugins include Meta for WooCommerce, with 400,000 active installs, and OneClick Chat to Order, with 30,000. This overlap is distinct from the broader chat-button use case: the category also includes plugins associated with chat and floating buttons, whether or not they share the WooCommerce tag.
Related chat channels and contact tools
The related tags point to a mix of messaging channels, contact options and store-focused use cases.
- Telegram: 40 plugins also carry this tag; Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram is among the category’s most installed plugins, with 300,000 active installs.
- Contact: 40 plugins share this tag, connecting the category with broader contact tools.
- Notifications: 34 plugins overlap here.
- Abandoned-cart: 31 plugins share this tag, indicating a commerce-related intersection.
- Live-chat: 25 plugins overlap with this tag.
A large catalog with a small widely installed tier
The category has 413 plugins, while only a small share has reached high install counts.
Seven plugins have at least 100,000 active installs, and 17 have at least 10,000. 74% were updated within the last year. Among prominent plugins, ratings vary: Joinchat and Click to Chat are rated excellent with a moderate number of reviews, while Meta for WooCommerce is rated poor with a moderate number. Several top plugins were updated this month; WP Chat App and Simple Chat Button were updated two months ago, and Buttonizer one month ago.