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AI Chatbot for WordPress by Customerly

by customerly · AI

AI Chatbot to support customers, create engaging messages and send automated emails.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

D 52/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

200+

≈280 estimated

Momentum

+9%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “ai assistant”, “ai chatbot” and “chatgpt” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
52 Health · D
Maintenance 14/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 77 average across 3,393 AI plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.5%

of downloads still active

At least 200 of 43.9K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median AI plugin keeps 1.4%, across 1,011 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other AI plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Details

Version
2.5.4
Last updated
2.7y ago
Added
2017-10-16 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.2.15
Requires PHP
5.4

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 12 reviews to 2023-11-22
Mixed PraiseOnboardingPricingFeature requests

Most reviewers praise the plugin and its support, but the newest one says the setup does nothing and is confusing, and a few want a free tier or more chat notifications.

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.

62 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 22/100

Updated 975 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 53/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.2.15; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 85/100

4.5★ over 25 reviews, smoothed to 4.23★

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 975 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+9% vs prior 30d
51 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.5K · peaks are release surges

1401 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.51 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

521 Nov 2026

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

7001 Nov 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.7y ago

latest release · v2.5.4 · 1 Mar 2024

10

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.5.4 · 1 Mar 20242.5.3 · 22 Jun 20232.5.2 · 17 Nov 20222.5.1 · 7 Nov 20222.5 · 7 Nov 20222.4.1 · 3 Oct 20222.4 · 8 Aug 2022trunk · 5 Oct 20212.0.4 · 6 Jul 20212.0.3 · 11 May 2021

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 87% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.5 87%
v2.3 7.6%
v2.0 5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈280

Crossed into this band 3 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 300.

Install history since 12 Dec 2019

2001 Nov 2026

Reviewer account pattern

from wp.org reviewer profiles

13 of the last 20 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review.

Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ jaymzwayne
    2.9y ago

    it does nothing during config provided by the creator as the creator states it is a common simple setup process just like other plugins but does not mention you have to click on a whole another process to install this and now is drawing a safety concern as to why this all is not mentioned i tried direct website signup and claims it wants my work email and it is totally anal specific email sign up should not matter if its your personal email or work email unless there is other intentions to be brought forth, Moderators i feel this needs to be further investigated do to my findings

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  2. ★★★★★ stephen54
    5.4y ago

    Fantastic plugin with awsome support 🙂

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  3. ★★★★★ tobility
    5.5y ago

    it is good

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  4. ★★★★★ janfrancioni
    5.8y ago

    I highly recommend installing this live chat! The free version is great but the paid version offers even more for the success of your online business.

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  5. ★★★★★ liaris
    5.9y ago

    No Free Version – Facebook Mesenger

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ Hercu
    6.3y ago

    Love this plugin! Improved communication with my clients even when I’m on the move.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ donkidshop
    6.8y ago

    Il plugin wordpress funziona perfettamente e permette di interfacciare la tua Dashboard Customerly con il sito wordpress. Sarebbero gradite qualche notifica in più come all’avvio della chat senza l’obbligo di tenere aperta la finestra di Costumerly. Il servizio ha un prezzo assolutamente competitivo ma anch’esso potrebbe essere migliorato.

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  8. ★★★★★ Mark Sauer
    6.9y ago

    I’be been using Customerly now for the last couple weeks. I’ve used quite a few different marketing automation and customer engagement platforms, and I have been so impressed with the feature set of Customerly. The product is a little young, but the feature set is quite comprehensive. The developer has been quick with answering questions and making a few fixes. The WordPress plugin does exactly what it’s supposed to do. I like that you only need to do an oAuth authentication and no manual token generation is needed. Really simple and easy to configure. Most of the remaining setup is done within the app, and there are plenty of options with a lot of flexibility.

    Read on wp.org ↗

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

6 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "AI Chatbot to support customers, create engaging messages and send automated emails."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 15 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 15 of 15 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Google Analytics, Facebook.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 20 headings and 2 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 8,367 characters of description.
  • ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("ai assistant", "ChatGPT", "gpt" missing).

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-08-07 300+ → 200+ down after 132 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-28 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-25 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-24 400+ → 300+ down after 75 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-08 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-07 400+ → 500+ up after 12 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-26 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-12-24 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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AI Chatbot for WordPress by Customerly: 200+ active installs, 4.5★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/customerly

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