HappyFox Chat – Live Chat Plugin for WordPress Websites
by happyfoxteam · Chat & Support
Voted No.1 Live chat software on ProductHunt. Fully loaded with features like unlimited chats, fully customizable widget, app integrations & more.
42 health vs 67 average across 213 Chat & Support plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.
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 2250 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
33
now · peak 78
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 80+ in roughly 583 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-22 80+ → 70+ down after 35 days in band
- 2026-04-17 70+ → 80+ up after 13 days in band
- 2026-04-04 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-04-02 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-01 80+ → 70+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-03-28 70+ → 80+ up after 184 days in band
- 2025-09-25 80+ → 70+ down after 5 days in band
- 2025-09-20 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Chative Live chat and Chatbot 50+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C -
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Joinchat – Enhanced "click to chat" 700K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button – Chaty 400K+ installs · 5.0★ · 1 shared tag A
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