Group chat for WordPress – Minnit Chat
by minnitchat · Chat & Support
Cloud-based chat using your WordPress accounts. Minnit uses SSO to allow you and your WordPress users to communicate with one another.
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Health
B 84/100
Few reviews
Active installs
500+
≈570 estimated
Momentum
+100%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “chat” for “chatting”. “chat” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “chatting” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
84 health vs 64 average across 1,176 Chat & Support plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.3%
of downloads still active
At least 500 of 39.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Chat & Support plugin keeps 0.8%, across 629 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Chat & Support plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 3 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.1★ over 8 reviews, smoothed to 4.10★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
39
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 27d
17%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 27d
+0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| chatroom your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| chat group your tag | #4 | #14 | 0 |
| group chat your tag | #4 | #16 | 0 |
| chatbox your tag | #4 | #5 | 0 |
| chatting | #6 | #19 | 0 |
| group | #20 | #22 | down 3 |
| real time chat | #24 | #24 | — |
| talk | #24 | #21 | down 2 |
| wordpress sso | #16 | #21 | 0 |
| my sso | #18 | #20 | 0 |
| chat your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
19 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 9 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “chat” for “chatting”. “chat” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “chatting” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.6K · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 78% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 months ago; the previous band took 18 months to cross, which places it about 72% of the way through.
Install history since 17 Jul 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ amnz9126mo ago
This is the best chat I’ve ever used. It was really simple to set it up and it has a lot of features. My users are really happy with it, especially with the sso option which syncs their account data and doesn’t require them to register again. I had a few questions but support was really helpful and responded quickly. Would recommend this to anyone!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ xfilesbsw7mo ago
Not good, you need to be a professor to try to get it working. Plugin deleted. 0 star rating……
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ honoluluman4.0y ago
The plugin works great with the chat. The support is simple extraordinary!!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ archfiendmedia4.7y ago
I dunno about the plug in with wordpress, but the embeddable works fine and is responsive. A+
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ 077ycu4.8y ago
#minnit-navbar-nav{background-color: red} #minnit-navbar-nav{background-color: Coins 50000
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ limone1115.3y ago
Nice, but for communities unuseable because… User have to register on Minnitchat… No chance to set userprofile-links ….
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Andrea6.6y ago
Tested for some weeks, all good! Easy installation, customization, support and nice code quality! unfortunately the registrations are not integrated with wordpress but requires a Minnit account for more feature. This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by Andrea.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ablight7.8y ago
As the title implies it is the best user chat bar none I have found. There may be as good paid plugins which I haven’t tried and incidentally they offer paid subscriptions for those who need them but their free tier is great offering up to 100 simultaneous users, one on one, rooms, subrooms, 14 day msg retention and their support is excellent. Nothing I have tried comes close. Worth a try to see if it meets your needs. This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by ablight. This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by ablight.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
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
4 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Cloud-based chat using your WordPress accounts. Minnit uses SSO to allow you and your WordPress users to co..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 6 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 6 of 6 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 673 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "chat group", "chatbox" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-02 600+ → 500+ down after 549 days in tier
- 2024-11-30 700+ → 600+ down after 17 days in tier
- 2024-11-13 600+ → 700+ up after 65 days in tier
- 2024-09-09 700+ → 600+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2024-09-01 600+ → 700+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2024-08-22 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-08-21 600+ → 700+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2024-08-06 700+ → 600+ down after 4 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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Group Chat & Video Chat by AtomChat 200+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B -
Website Toolbox Chat Room 10+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
Chatwing Live Group Chat – HTML5 + Chat Apps 10+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
chatWING Lobby – Group Chat Rooms + 1 on 1 Live Chat 10+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
Arena – Group Chat for Real-Time Engagement 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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