FX Bénard

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)

Presskopp

Emre Erkan

Peter Smits

hassantafreshi

Fakhri Azzouz

whitestudio

Social Chat Buttons is a 100% FREE WordPress plugin that adds a beautiful floating chat widget to your website. Connect with your visitors through multiple social media platforms including WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal.
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<a href="https://whitestudio.team/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a> | <a href="https://github.com/hassantafreshi/social-chat-buttons" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-chat-buttons/" rel="ugc">Support</a>
<h3>🌟 Key Features (All FREE!)</h3>
💬 Multi-Network Support 
* WhatsApp Business & Personal 
* Telegram 
* Signal 
* Instagram Direct 
* Facebook Messenger 
* Twitter/X DM 
* LinkedIn Messages 
* Viber 
* Discord
🎨 Beautiful & Customizable Design 
* Modern floating chat button 
* Customizable colors and sizes 
* Icon, text, or custom image modes 
* Icon Picker with WordPress Dashicons, Bootstrap Icons, and custom SVG upload 
* Adjustable border radius — from square corners to fully rounded buttons 
* Gradient header backgrounds 
* Responsive design for all devices 
* Auto dark mode (8 PM – 7 AM, based on visitor’s local time)
🚀 Two Display Modes 
* Popup Mode — Classic chat popup window with contact list, header, and business hours 
* Direct Icons (Speed Dial) Mode — Social icons fan out from the floating button with cascading animation 
* Hover tooltips in direct mode — contact name appears next to each icon 
* RTL and LTR aware tooltip positioning 
* Click outside to close — intuitive user experience
⚡ Advanced Features 
* Smart availability scheduling – Set different hours for each contact 
* Live preview in admin panel 
* Auto-save settings as you type 
* Message templates for each contact 
* Photo avatars with media library integration 
* Mobile-friendly or hide on mobile option 
* Position control (left/right) 
* Responsive scaling
🔧 Easy Management 
* Intuitive admin interface 
* Drag & drop contact management 
* Bulk operations support 
* Real-time settings preview 
* One-click contact addition
🌍 Localization Ready 
* Full internationalization support 
* WordPress translation ready 
* RTL support
🔒 Secure & Optimized 
* WordPress coding standards compliant 
* Nonce security verification 
* Data sanitization & validation 
* Lightweight and fast loading 
* Clean uninstall option 
* GDPR compliant – no personal data collection
<h3>💎 Why Choose Social Chat Buttons?</h3>
✅ Completely FREE – No premium version, no hidden costs 
✅ Professional Design – Modern UI with smooth animations 
✅ Two Display Modes – Popup window or direct speed-dial social icons 
✅ Icon Picker – Dashicons, Bootstrap Icons, or custom SVG 
✅ Developer Friendly – Clean code following WordPress standards 
✅ Regular Updates – Actively maintained and improved 
✅ Community Support – Support through WordPress forums
<h3>🚀 Perfect For:</h3>
<ul>
<li>E-commerce stores</li>
<li>Business websites</li>
<li>Personal blogs</li>
<li>Service providers</li>
<li>Customer support teams</li>
<li>Multi-language sites</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://whitestudio.team/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a> 
<a href="https://github.com/hassantafreshi/social-chat-buttons" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> 
<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-chat-buttons/" rel="ugc">Support</a>
<h3>Support</h3>
Need help? We provide free community support through:
<ul>
<li>WordPress Support Forums: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-chat-buttons/" rel="ugc">Plugin Support Page</a></li>
<li>Documentation: Comprehensive guides and tutorials</li>
<li>GitHub Issues: For developers and advanced users</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
Social Chat Buttons is under GPLv2! Contribute on <a href="https://github.com/hassantafreshi/social-chat-buttons" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin creates direct links to third-party social media and messaging platforms when users click on chat buttons. The plugin itself does not send any data to these services – it simply generates URLs that users can choose to visit.
When a visitor clicks on a chat button, they will be redirected to the respective external service based on the contact information you’ve configured. This happens client-side in the user’s browser.
Services Used:
The plugin generates links to the following third-party services (based on which platforms you choose to enable):
<ul>
<li>
Pinterest – For Pinterest messaging functionality
<ul>
<li>URL format: <code>https://pinterest.com/send/{username}/</code></li>
<li>Data sent: Pinterest username (configured by site admin)</li>
<li>When: Only when user clicks the Pinterest chat button</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://policy.pinterest.com/terms-of-service</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Microsoft Teams – For Microsoft Teams chat functionality
<ul>
<li>URL format: <code>https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users={email}</code></li>
<li>Data sent: Email address or Teams ID (configured by site admin)</li>
<li>When: Only when user clicks the Teams chat button</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Other Platforms – The plugin also creates links to these services (only if you configure them):
<ul>
<li>WhatsApp (https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy)</li>
<li>Telegram (https://telegram.org/privacy)</li>
<li>Facebook Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/)</li>
<li>Instagram (https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/)</li>
<li>Signal (https://signal.org/legal/)</li>
<li>Discord (https://discord.com/privacy)</li>
<li>Viber (https://www.viber.com/terms/viber-privacy-policy/)</li>
<li>Twitter/X (https://twitter.com/privacy)</li>
<li>LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy)</li>
<li>Snapchat (https://values.snap.com/privacy/privacy-policy)</li>
<li>KakaoTalk (https://www.kakao.com/policy/privacy)</li>
<li>Threads (https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944)</li>
<li>Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy)</li>
<li>VK (https://vk.com/privacy)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Important Notes:
<ol>
<li>
No automatic data transmission: This plugin does not automatically send any data to these services. Links are only activated when users voluntarily click on them.
</li>
<li>
You control what’s shared: As the site administrator, you configure which platforms to use and what contact information (username, phone number, email) to include in the links.
</li>
<li>
User consent: When users click a chat button, they are consciously choosing to open that platform and are subject to that platform’s privacy policy and terms of service.
</li>
<li>
Local storage only: All plugin settings and contact information are stored only in your WordPress database. Nothing is transmitted to external servers except when users click the chat buttons.
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data from your website visitors. All contact information is stored locally in your WordPress database and never shared with third parties by the plugin itself.
GDPR Compliance:
This plugin is fully GDPR compliant:
<ul>
<li>No cookies: The plugin does not set any cookies or use browser storage to track users</li>
<li>No personal data collection: We don’t collect, process, or store any personal information from your visitors</li>
<li>No tracking: No analytics, tracking pixels, or third-party scripts are loaded by this plugin</li>
<li>Local data only: All settings and configurations are stored locally in your WordPress database</li>
<li>User control: Visitors have full control – they choose whether to click chat buttons and share information with external platforms</li>
<li>Transparent: All external service connections are documented above and happen only with explicit user action</li>
<li>Right to erasure: Uninstalling the plugin removes all data from your database (if clean uninstall option is enabled)</li>
</ul>
When visitors click on chat buttons, they are redirected to the respective social media platforms based on your configured contact information. Any data sharing at that point is governed by the privacy policies of those external platforms, and users are making an informed choice to use those services.
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Developed with ❤️ by Hassan Tafreshi</li>
<li>Translated into multiple languages by our amazing community: German by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/presskopp/" rel="nofollow ugc">Presskopp</a>, Swedish by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tobifjellner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tor-Bjorn Fjellner</a>, Dutch by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/psmits1567/" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter Smits</a>, Arabic and Franch by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fakhriaz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fakhri Azzouz</a>, French reviewed and approved by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fxbenard/" rel="nofollow ugc">FX Bénard</a>, Turkish by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/emre/" rel="nofollow ugc">Emre Erkan</a>, Persian by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/hassantafreshi/" rel="nofollow ugc">Hassan Tafreshi</a></li>
<li>Community feedback and suggestions</li>
<li>WordPress community support</li>
</ul>
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Social Chat Buttons

A comprehensive and free social media chat widget for WordPress with multi-network support.

wpazleen

Sabbir Sam

sambyte

wpxpertise

Function Deck

Activity Guard is a free WordPress plugin that covers four things most plugins charge separately for: a complete activity log, an IP-based security firewall, a plugin vulnerability scanner, and WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics. Alerts go out in real time to Slack, Telegram, or email.
Most activity log plugins stop at logging. Most security plugins don’t touch WooCommerce. Activity Guard does all of it in one dashboard, so you’re not juggling four separate plugins or paying for features that should come standard.
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<h3>What Makes Activity Guard Different</h3>
Other free activity log plugins make you upgrade for Slack alerts, security scanning, or WooCommerce tracking. Activity Guard ships all of it for free, including Telegram notifications, IP firewall with emergency session shutdown, plugin CVE scanning, and WooCommerce incomplete-order analytics.
No other free plugin on WordPress.org combines these four in one place:
<ul>
<li>Complete activity log with charts and visual summaries</li>
<li>IP firewall with manual blocking, CIDR ranges, and conditional rules</li>
<li>Plugin vulnerability scanner cross-referencing NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>WooCommerce analytics including abandoned cart recovery rate tracking</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Activity Log</h3>
Activity Guard records every meaningful change on your site, including the IP address, username, timestamp, and the exact change made. The log covers:
<ul>
<li>User logins, logouts, and failed login attempts</li>
<li>User registrations, role changes, and profile edits</li>
<li>Pages, posts, and custom post types: create, edit, delete, status changes</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activations, deactivations, updates, and deletions</li>
<li>WordPress core settings and configuration changes</li>
<li>Menu, widget, and sidebar modifications</li>
<li>Email delivery tracking (email log)</li>
<li>Form submissions from Contact Form 7, SimpleForm, and others</li>
<li>Admin settings changes and debug log events</li>
<li>Cron job scheduling and background process tracking</li>
<li>Script modification and file change detection</li>
<li>Visitor traffic monitoring with an on/off toggle</li>
</ul>
Visual charts summarize your audit log at a glance. No need to scroll through raw log tables to understand what’s happening on your site.
<h3>Security Firewall and IP Blocking</h3>
Activity Guard actively blocks threats rather than just recording them after the fact.
<ul>
<li>IP blocking by manual entry, CIDR range, or conditional rule</li>
<li>Emergency shutdown: force-logout every active session on your site with one click</li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile login protection against bots and brute force attacks</li>
<li>Login rate limiting to stop credential-stuffing</li>
<li>Bot detection and automatic IP blocking</li>
<li>Restrict or fully disable XML-RPC access</li>
<li>Core file integrity scanner to detect unauthorized file changes</li>
<li>File integrity monitoring across plugins and themes</li>
<li>Block TOR network access</li>
<li>Block vulnerability scanner user agents</li>
<li>HTTP security headers: custom, logged, and enforced</li>
<li>WordPress version hiding</li>
<li>404 error tracking and suspicious HTTP request alerts</li>
<li>Admin dashboard visitor tracking</li>
<li>Cron job failure and site downtime monitoring</li>
</ul>
The Emergency Shutdown feature is specific to Activity Guard: one click and every logged-in session on your site ends immediately. Useful when you detect a breach in progress and need everyone out now.
<h3>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner</h3>
Activity Guard scans every installed plugin and theme against multiple vulnerability databases before problems develop:
<ul>
<li>Detect plugins with known CVEs across NVD, WPVulnerability.net, and the WPAzleen private API</li>
<li>Flag outdated plugins not compatible with your WordPress version</li>
<li>Identify abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)</li>
<li>Warn about plugins with low install counts or poor ratings</li>
</ul>
No other free activity log plugin on WordPress.org includes a built-in multi-database vulnerability scanner.
<h3>WooCommerce Activity Log and Analytics</h3>
Activity Guard logs every WooCommerce event and adds analytics built specifically for store owners.
Order tracking covers status changes, payments, refunds, and cancellations. You also get stock level changes and low-stock events, coupon creation and usage, product pricing edits, billing and shipping address updates, customer registration changes, and real-time shipping status updates.
The abandoned cart and incomplete-order analytics go further than basic logging. The dashboard shows checkout drop-off rates, recovery potential, recovery rate, and how customers interact with their carts before leaving. This helps you understand where revenue is being lost, not just that it was lost.
WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics with recovery rate tracking is included free. No competing free activity log plugin on WordPress.org provides this.
<h3>Slack and Telegram Notifications</h3>
Activity Guard sends alerts the moment a critical event occurs, across four channels:
<ul>
<li>Slack: route alerts to any channel, tag specific users or groups with @mentions</li>
<li>Telegram: real-time activity and security alerts direct to your Telegram chat</li>
<li>Email: configurable per event type</li>
<li>Admin dashboard: in-panel notification view</li>
</ul>
Events that trigger alerts include core file changes, plugin and theme updates (with the username that triggered the update), WooCommerce orders, payments, coupon usage, incomplete order follow-ups, product edits, stock changes, login and registration events, page and post changes, form submissions, and admin settings changes. A daily digest and weekly plugin download summary are also available.
You can schedule notifications for specific times and control exactly which events send alerts.
<h3>Admin and Developer Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li>Maintenance mode toggle from the dashboard</li>
<li>Menu and widget change tracking</li>
<li>Plugin and theme activation and deactivation logs</li>
<li>Script modification detection</li>
<li>HTTP security header change logging</li>
<li>Debug log and fatal error detection</li>
<li>Email log: full delivery history for all outgoing WordPress emails</li>
<li>Contact Form 7 and SimpleForm integration alerts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Who Uses Activity Guard</h3>
WooCommerce store owners use it to track every order, coupon, product change, and shipping event, and to recover revenue with abandoned cart analytics. Site administrators use it to know exactly who changed what, instantly log out suspicious users, and maintain a clean audit trail. Agencies and developers use it to monitor plugin updates, configuration changes, fatal errors, and debug logs across client sites. Security-focused admins use it to block IPs, scan for CVEs, monitor file integrity, and trigger emergency shutdowns. Multi-author sites use it to hold contributors accountable with full user activity logging and role-change tracking.
Join us: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wpazleens" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqR5SPvn6N2ZBq7AyYKfEnA" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a> | <a href="https://x.com/wpazleen" rel="nofollow ugc">X / Twitter</a>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<h4>Slack Webhook Integration</h4>
Activity Guard sends notifications to your Slack workspace using a Slack incoming webhook URL that you provide. To set one up:
<ol>
<li>Create a Slack app or use an existing one</li>
<li>Enable Incoming Webhooks in the app settings</li>
<li>Add a webhook to your workspace</li>
<li>Paste the webhook URL into Activity Guard settings</li>
</ol>
<h4>Cloudflare Turnstile</h4>
Activity Guard uses <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a> for login bot protection. See Cloudflare’s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a> for details.
<h4>Plugin Vulnerability Scanner – Data Sources</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress.org Plugin API: retrieves plugin metadata including latest version, last updated date, rating, and active install count. <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPAzleen API: private endpoint for known vulnerabilities by plugin and version. No sensitive data is transmitted. <a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>WPVulnerability.net: public API for CVE-based vulnerability data. <a href="https://www.wpvulnerability.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li>National Vulnerability Database (NVD): official CVE data from NIST. <a href="https://www.nist.gov/oism/site-privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
All scans run locally using public metadata and vulnerability feeds. Activity Guard does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information during scans.
<h4>Freemius</h4>
Activity Guard uses the <a href="https://freemius.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> SDK for optional telemetry. No data is collected by default. Data collection only starts after you explicitly confirm in the admin notice. See the <a href="https://freemius.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius FAQ</a> for details.
<h4>WPAzleen Settings API</h4>
Loads display settings for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area.
<a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPAzleen Privacy Policy</a>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
The source files for all compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS in this plugin are publicly available at:
https://github.com/wpazleen/activity-guard
Build instructions:
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository or direct visit the src directory.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> in the root to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.</li>
<li>The compiled files are output to <code>build/</code>.</li>
</ol>

Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking


Excellent plugin and easy to setup thanks for the video.


Original idea and super useful plugin!

WordPress activity log with IP blocking, plugin vulnerability scanner, WooCommerce abandoned cart analytics, and free Slack and Telegram alerts.

Social Chat Buttons vs Activity Guard – Security Scanner, Activity Log with IP blocking