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Zendesk Chat

by zendesk_official · Chat & Support

Also makes 1 other plugin · 12K+ installs across the portfolio →

Zendesk Chat (previously Zopim) lets you monitor and chat with visitors surfing your store in real-time. Impress them personally and ease them into th …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 63 average across 672 Chat & Support plugins

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.20.

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.

48 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 22/100
Rating quality 81/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2200 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+36% vs prior 30d
22Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

610

now · peak 3.3K

61130d 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

Zendesk Chat · #1935 you Chatway Live Chat · #1052 Chat Floating Button · #10350 Muchat · #11660

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · Aug 26

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.

61per 1k installs · Aug 26

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

7.3y ago

latest release · v1.4.15

48

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.15 · 7.3y ago1.4.14 · 7.7y ago1.4.13 · 7.9y ago1.4.12 · 8.7y ago1.4.11 · 9.2y ago1.4.10 · 9.3y ago1.4.9 · 9.3y ago1.4.8 · 9.4y ago1.4.7 · 9.4y ago1.4.6 · 9.6y ago1.4.5 · 9.7y ago1.4.4 · 9.8y ago1.4.3 · 10.3y ago1.4.2 · 10.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 98%
Older / other versions 2.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10K–20K ≈19K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,476 observations

10KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
1.4.18
Last updated
6.0y ago
Added
2010-01-20 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
5.5.20
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Lexiol
    6.5y ago

    Nothing works. Not even their website on mobile.

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  2. netart.gr
    6.5y ago

    It is a very useful chat plugin. It offers live chat support for 1 agent (for free) BUT if you don’t have too much traffic that is enough. It is very customizable and it has a mobile app so as the user can answer chat through his mobile whenever he is online. Finally, I love it’s email summary feature. It sends a summary of your converstion to your email

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  3. ateya3d
    6.7y ago

    It’s Slow down any website, and no any support

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  4. Marin Stoyanov
    8.6y ago

    I thought that installing the plugin made by Zendesk team will be easy and i won’t face any issues. Instead now I’m here and I write my review. WordPress Zendesk plugin is real disaster. It doesn’t allow me to login to my account. I’m sure that my password and email are correct. I tripe-checked them and they are correct but the plugin doesn’t allow me to login to my existing Zendesk account. Some suggestions for the authors: 1) We live in 21st century, logging with my real Zendesk username and password is real thread. Instead you can use API key, provide temporary access key or use other more intelligent way to associate WP website with Zendesk account 2) Most WP plugins, that require configuration after being activated, usually have a Settings link next to ‘Details’. You’re huge enough to do it. This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Marin Stoyanov.

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  5. Rodolfo
    9.7y ago

    Cuidado. Instalei o Zopim e paguei por 2 agentes por 6 seis meses. Após isso o sistema renovou automaticamente, mesmo sem meu site estar no ar mais e mesmo sem usar o sistema deles. Entrei em contato e me informaram que não devolveriam o dinheiro porque já havia passado o tempo para reclamar e que isso estava previsto, quando assinei. Tenho os e-mails, que compravam isso. Tomem muito cuidado! Não recomendo!

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  6. albaintrade
    9.9y ago

    Very good application easy and fast… You can try on my website http://almanyayurtdisikargo.com/

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  7. nicopozena79
    10.0y ago

    Pretty good service

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  8. ddrevik
    10.1y ago

    I love this plugin. It helps our website visitors tremendously to be able to ask questions and interact with us. Many are reluctant to call or email for fear of being inundated with sales calls, so this allows them to stay at arms reach until they get comfortable with us. Why only 3 stars then? The speed. When I load the Zopim widget, my homepage load time goes from 6.5s to 12.3s. I can’t have visitors waiting that long for our homepage to load. I could live with adding a second or so to our load, but 6 additional seconds is a deal-breaker.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.4.18 Tested on WordPress v5.5 1.4.18
  2. Version 1.4.17 Tested on WordPress v5.4.2 1.4.17
  3. Version 1.4.16 Updated plugin to support WordPress v5.4.1 1.4.16
  4. Version 1.4.15 Tested on WordPress v5.1.1 1.4.15
  5. Version 1.4.14 Support chat phase 3 and phase 4 accounts 1.4.14
  6. Version 1.4.13 Updated copy to reflect chat phase 4 limitations 1.4.13

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2013-02-18 CVE-2013-1808 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 1.2.6 Patched in 1.2.6

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.5

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 35 languages, 5 at 90% or more

Dutch 100%
Italian 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Mexico) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Azerbaijani 14%
Chinese (China) 5%
Basque 2%
Cebuano 2%
Chinese (Taiwan) 2%
Croatian 2%
Czech 2%
Dutch (Formal) 2%
English (Australia) 2%
English (Canada) 2%
English (New Zealand) 2%
English (South Africa) 2%
English (UK) 2%
Esperanto 2%
Finnish 2%
French (France) 2%
Georgian 2%
German 2%
German (Formal) 2%

Plus 11 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-12-25 20K+ → 10K+ down after 454 days in tier
  2. 2023-09-28 30K+ → 20K+ down after 356 days in tier
  3. 2022-10-07 40K+ → 30K+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2022-10-05 30K+ → 40K+ up

Competes with

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Zendesk Chat: 10K+ active installs, 4.0★ (27 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/zopim-live-chat