Sticky Chat Widget – Floating Chat Icons, Contact Form, Call, Click to Chat, Email & Message Buttons

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80 Quality Score

Active Installs

18/30

With 10,000 active installs it is a small-to-mid-tier plugin, earning a modest 60/30 popularity score.

Update Freshness

25/25

Updated within days of this assessment and tested against WordPress 6.9.4, it earns a perfect 100/25 for maintenance freshness.

User Rating

15/15

A flawless 100/100 from 38 reviewers is excellent, though the small sample size limits how confidently you can generalize.

Support Health

8/15

Only one support thread exists and it was resolved, but that volume is too low to demonstrate a reliable support track record, hence 50/15.

WP Compatibility

15/15

It supports WordPress 5.0+ and PHP 5.4+, which is unusually forgiving for older environments and earns a full 100/15.

Scores higher than 81% of indexed plugins

About

Social chat buttons with WhatsApp, Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok, Zalo & more — plus SMS, Call button, Contact form, and 20+ icons.

Active Installs 10k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-08-31 4:25am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 5.4+

Security History

3 known vulnerabilities, all patched

2 High 1 Medium

Most recent: September 10, 2026

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What It Does

Sticky Chat Widget adds a floating cluster of communication buttons to your WordPress site, including direct links to WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok, WeChat, Zalo, SMS, phone calls, and email. It also includes a built-in contact form and over 20 icon options, letting visitors reach you through their preferred channel without leaving the page. Everything is configured from a single dashboard with display rules for pages, devices, and user roles.

Who It's For

This plugin suits small businesses, international sellers, and service providers (real estate agents, travel agencies, beauty salons, clinics, restaurants) whose customers rely on chat apps like WhatsApp or Messenger for quick contact. It is especially useful for sites that serve audiences across multiple messaging platforms and want a low-friction way to capture leads. Non-technical site owners will appreciate that it works straight out of the box without needing a third-party service.

Who Should Skip It

If you only need a standard contact form or already use a dedicated form plugin like WPForms or Contact Form 7, the chat-button half of this plugin is unnecessary clutter. Larger operations that require ticket queues, CRM integration, or team inbox routing should look at purpose-built live chat platforms instead.

The Bottom Line

Sticky Chat Widget delivers exactly what its name promises, with a strong maintenance track record, broad channel coverage, and a clean rating history. Its weakness is real-world adoption: 10,000 installs and a single support thread suggest a niche user base, and the 80.41/100 overall score reflects that. It is a solid pick for small businesses that need a one-click chat launcher, but larger sites should weigh the alternatives above.

Pick Akismet instead if your priority is stopping spam across comments and forms rather than adding chat shortcuts.

WPForms Lite 97/100

Choose WPForms when you need richer form features like conditional logic, payments, or surveys instead of a chat widget.

Forminator Forms 94/100

Forminator is the better choice if you want polls, quizzes, and payment forms alongside contact forms, with more integrations.

Fluent Forms 88/100

Fluent Forms suits users who want a modern, conversational form builder with more advanced customization than this plugin offers.

Contact Form 7 88/100

Contact Form 7 is a leaner, more battle-tested option if you only need a simple contact form and nothing else.