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Missive Live Chat for WordPress

by missiveapp · Chat & Support

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Live chat is often the best way to solve time-sensitive technical issues or to answer sales related questions. In today’s world, failing to give speed …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 63 average across 672 Chat & Support plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

1.8K

Total downloads

since 2020

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

+29%

58

Downloads · 30d

category median +16%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1796 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+29% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 165

6030d downloads · Aug 26

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

Missive Live Chat fo · #25813 you Live Chat by Formill · #4489 Tidio · #574 Buttonizer · #737

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.

3Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

20Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 0 reviews

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Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
4.9y ago
Added
2020-08-14 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP
5.2.4
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-09 30+ → 20+ down after 9 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-31 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-29 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-25 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-24 30+ → 20+ down after 378 days in tier
  6. 2025-03-11 40+ → 30+ down after 54 days in tier
  7. 2025-01-16 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-01-15 40+ → 30+ down after 4 days in tier

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