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Simple Chat Button
A tiny WhatsApp button that prioritizes speed over customization.
HealthyDeclining
71/100
The plugin is lightweight but lacks basic text formatting options.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.8★
15 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-6%
Declining
110 → 103 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -6% in the last year
110/day a year ago→103/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Chat Button is well-regarded as a no-frills WhatsApp chat button plugin valued for its lightweight footprint, though users consistently wish for more customization options like text formatting, button resizing, and font size control.
What people like
- +Lightweight with minimal bloat compared to similar plugins×3
- +Simple and functional — works as advertised for adding a WhatsApp chat button×5
Common complaints
- −No support for text formatting (e.g. line breaks, bold) in the default message
- −No option to resize the WhatsApp button
- −No ability to add HTML code to the button text
- −No font size adjustment for the button text
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.77★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 40% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-07-092026-01-052026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 15 total
Latest reviews · 15 analyzed
- 2026-01-23★★★★★Default message – no formattingsapu78
- 2025-09-28★★★★★one of the best for whatsappSepi
- 2025-09-13★★★★★بهترین افزونه و کاربردیjayarsiech
- 2025-08-15★★★★★Simple, lightweight pluginRam Shengale
- 2025-06-17★★★★★Simple And Lightweightforgeeky
- 2023-03-08★★★★★html in descriptioneghasimi
- 2022-09-12★★★★★Amazingly lightweight WhatsApp chat pluginRicaNeaga
- 2022-09-11★★★★★Cumple su funcióniradiomaria
- 2022-06-17★★★★★Wonderfulfindikhikayeleri
- 2022-06-16★★★★★Great PluginHassan Hossinie
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Simple Chat Button
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
98
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
102
Prior 7-day baseline
77
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
222
Mean release-day peak (30d)
109
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-3.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
40%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.54
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
93%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-75%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.80 → 4.77★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered