Chat Room
by webdevstudios · Chat & Support
Create chat rooms on your site for users to participate in.
46 health vs 68 average across 207 Chat & Support plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, well behind 6.8.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3415 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
63
now · peak 160
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-27 90+ → 80+ down after 53 days in band
- 2026-05-05 100+ → 90+ down after 935 days in band
- 2023-10-13 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-10-12 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-10-11 200+ → 100+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Better Messages – Chat Rooms, Group Chat, Private Messages & AI Chat Bots 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
RumbleTalk Live Group Chat – HTML5 700+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B - P Personal Chat room 10+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/chat-room" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Chat Room — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Chat Room: 80+ active installs, 4.2★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/chat-room