Jacob Orbach

GhostChat is a lightweight, privacy-focused live chat widget for WordPress. Reply from Gmail, the mobile PWA, or the dashboard — your choice.
Why GhostChat?
<ul>
<li>~10KB widget – 20-35x smaller than tawk.to, Crisp, Tidio, LiveChat</li>
<li>Zero tracking, zero cookies – No cookie banners needed</li>
<li>15-30ms latency – Edge-powered global delivery</li>
<li>Gmail threading – Reply from your inbox, conversations stay in sync</li>
<li>WooCommerce auto-integration – Page context on all plans, cart context on Pro & Business</li>
<li>Real-time messaging – Instant customer replies</li>
<li>CRM Lite – Built-in contacts, conversation history, and notes</li>
<li>Team support – Invite agents, assign conversations (Business plan)</li>
<li>Webhooks & Bot Agent API – Integrate with your stack (Pro & Business)</li>
<li>Auto-translate – 133+ languages, real-time visitor message translation (Pro & Business)</li>
<li>Canned responses – Save time with pre-written replies</li>
<li>Mobile PWA dashboard – Reply from your phone like WhatsApp</li>
<li>GDPR-friendly – No cookies, no tracking, no consent banner needed</li>
<li>Easy setup – Takes 30 seconds to configure</li>
</ul>
How it works:
<ol>
<li>Sign up free at <a href="https://app.ghostchat.dev/signup" rel="nofollow ugc">GhostChat</a></li>
<li>Create a site and get your Site ID</li>
<li>Enter your Site ID in the plugin settings</li>
<li>The chat widget appears on your site automatically</li>
</ol>
Pricing:
<ul>
<li>Free (forever): 1 site, 30-day history, unlimited canned responses, no credit card required</li>
<li>Pro ($5/mo): 3 sites, 1-year history, business hours, visitor context & page journey, WooCommerce cart context, CSV export, webhooks, Bot Agent API, auto-translate (133+ languages)</li>
<li>Business ($25/mo): Everything in Pro plus 10 sites, unlimited history, team (up to 5 agents), remove GhostChat branding, priority support</li>
</ul>
Perfect for:
<ul>
<li>Small businesses</li>
<li>Freelancers</li>
<li>E-commerce stores</li>
<li>Support teams</li>
<li>Anyone who values privacy and performance</li>
</ul>
WooCommerce Integration:
Running a WooCommerce store? The plugin auto-detects WooCommerce and sends your agents real-time context — zero configuration required. Your agents see:
<ul>
<li>Page type, product name, cart items, total, and item count — Pro & Business</li>
<li>Custom data via <code>GhostChat.setContext()</code> — Pro & Business</li>
<li>Updates in real-time on AJAX cart changes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
GhostChat does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data from your WordPress site. The plugin only:
<ul>
<li>Stores your Site ID in your WordPress database (wp_options table)</li>
<li>Loads the chat widget script from api.ghostchat.dev</li>
<li>When WooCommerce is active, sends page context and cart data (page type, product name, items, total, count) on Pro and Business plans, and custom setContext() data on Pro and Business plans</li>
<li>Does not set any cookies</li>
<li>Does not track visitors</li>
<li>Does not send any data to third parties besides the GhostChat service</li>
</ul>
Chat conversations are handled by GhostChat service. Please review GhostChat’s privacy policy at https://ghostchat.dev/privacy for details on how chat data is handled.
<h3>Support</h3>
Need help? We’re here for you:
<ul>
<li>Email: jacob@ghostchat.dev</li>
<li>WordPress Setup Guide: https://ghostchat.dev/chat-widget-for-wordpress</li>
<li>Dashboard: https://app.ghostchat.dev</li>
<li>Website: https://ghostchat.dev</li>
</ul>
<h3>About GhostChat</h3>
GhostChat is a privacy-first live chat platform that prioritizes page speed and visitor privacy. We believe live chat shouldn’t slow down your site or compromise your visitors’ privacy.
Learn more at <a href="https://ghostchat.dev" rel="nofollow ugc">ghostchat.dev</a>

GhostChat

Lightweight live chat (~10KB) for WordPress. Reply from Gmail. Zero tracking, zero cookies, GDPR-friendly.

Felix Arntz

This plugin takes a no-frills approach to smooth scrolling, providing a fast, performant, and accessible user experience.
Simply enable the plugin, and any anchor links (i.e. links that point to other content on the same page) will provide a smooth scrolling experience rather than abruptly jumping to the destination content.
The plugin relies on the latest smooth scrolling techniques using CSS. A very fast and lightweight JavaScript polyfill (<1KB) is included to equally support older browsers, including Internet Explorer. So you can rest assured this plugin covers your userbase.
<h4>Why does this plugin exist?</h4>

Smooth scrolling is a basic feature to enhance user experience, so it shouldn’t come at a performance cost that at the same time harms user experience elsewhere.
Several other smooth scrolling solutions unfortunately rely on outdated techniques such as jQuery, which can hurt your site’s performance, and is really not necessary to provide the feature. Even browsers as old as 10 years don’t need jQuery to achieve smooth scrolling. In fact, as of today you can achieve the behavior with only CSS, not even requiring any JavaScript.
Another potential reason to use this plugin over other smooth scrolling solutions is accessibility: This plugin respects the user preferences around reduced motion, which can avoid discomfort for those with <a href="https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/understanding-vestibular-disorders/" rel="nofollow ugc">vestibular motion disorders</a>.
You may already use a smooth scrolling plugin, but it is worth double checking that it doesn’t use one of those outdated, inefficient, and inaccessible approaches that may slow down your site or affect user interactions negatively.
<h4>More technical details</h4>
This plugin simply enables smooth scrolling with the <code>scroll-behavior</code> CSS property. This property has been supported by all modern browsers for a few years now.
To support older browsers as well, a lightweight JavaScript polyfill is included, which is only loaded for browsers that lack support for the CSS property and doesn’t require any dependencies. The polyfill uses latest JavaScript user experience best practices such as <code>requestAnimationFrame</code> to provide a smooth scrolling experience without potentially blocking other user interactions.
For relevant browser support, see: 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/css-scroll-behavior" rel="nofollow ugc">CSS Scroll-behavior</a> 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/mdn-css_properties_scroll-padding-top" rel="nofollow ugc">CSS property: scroll-padding-top</a> 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/prefers-reduced-motion" rel="nofollow ugc">prefers-reduced-motion media query</a> 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/requestanimationframe" rel="nofollow ugc">requestAnimationFrame</a> 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/high-resolution-time" rel="nofollow ugc">High Resolution Time API</a> 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_nodelist" rel="nofollow ugc">NodeList API</a> 
* <a href="https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_window_scrollto" rel="nofollow ugc">Window API: scrollTo</a>

Fast Smooth Scroll

This lightweight plugin enhances user experience by enabling smooth scrolling for anchor links without the need for jQuery or other dependencies.

GhostChat vs Fast Smooth Scroll