FX Bénard

Presskopp

tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn “Tobi” Fjellner)

Peter Smits

hassantafreshi

Emre Erkan

whitestudio

Fakhri Azzouz

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

wpxpertise

Function Deck

Activity Guard is a powerful all-in-one WordPress Activity Log, WooCommerce Events, and Security Plugin designed to track every activity happening on your WordPress website.
It monitors user behavior, admin changes, WooCommerce events and analytics, forum activities, and system-level changes in real time. Whenever a critical change occurs, it instantly sends notifications via the Admin Dashboard, Slack, Telegram, and Email.
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🚀 <a href="https://wpazleen.com/notifier-to-slack/" rel="nofollow ugc">Activity Guard</a> | 📖 <a href="https://wpazleen.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | 💬 <a href="https://wpazleen.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Support</a>
Let’s grow, connect, and build together! 🚀
<ul>
<li>
🤝 Join our community on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/wpazleens" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>
</li>
<li>
🎥 Subscribe to our YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqR5SPvn6N2ZBq7AyYKfEnA" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a>
</li>
<li>
🐦 Follow us on X (Twitter): <a href="https://x.com/wpazleen" rel="nofollow ugc">X / Twitter</a>
</li>
</ul>
This top-rated Activity Log and Security Plugin helps you track user activity in WordPress efficiently. From user login and logout, role changes, plugin activation or deactivation, to tracking and blocking suspicious IP addresses- everything can be managed easily through Activity Guard. As a result, your user log and email log always remain clean, organized, and accessible.
The plugin’s detailed logging system clearly records where the change originated from (IP or source address), who made the change (user or admin), and when it occurred. This makes it a powerful Activity Log plugin with built-in IP address tracking.
It is one of the best WordPress plugins for tracking all changes and plays a vital role in keeping your website secure. Whether you are a site owner, developer, WooCommerce store manager, or an agency, Activity Guard helps you detect threats early, monitor changes accurately, and take immediate action.
Trusted by administrators and security professionals, Activity Guard offers real-time user monitoring, a comprehensive audit log, and advanced WordPress security features. With the built-in User Session Management, you can instantly log off any suspicious user, ensuring maximum protection for your website.
<h3>🔝 All Features at a Glance  </h3>
<ul>
<li>
🔐 Website Security & Advanced Protection 
Proactively protect your site against unauthorized access, attacks, and suspicious behavior with layered security controls.
</li>
<li>
📊 Complete Activity Log System 
Log every meaningful event across WordPress core, users, content, plugins, themes, and WooCommerce all in one place.
</li>
<li>
🧩 User Tracking & System Logs 
Monitor user sessions, role changes, login history, system actions, cron jobs, and background processes.
</li>
<li>
🛎️ Multi-Channel Notifier System 
Receive real-time alerts via Slack, Telegram, Email, and Admin Notifications for critical events and security incidents.
</li>
<li>
🛒 WooCommerce Monitoring & Analytics 
Includes a full WooCommerce activity log, sales analytics, customer insights, and order behavior tracking.
</li>
<li>
🔍 Plugin Vulnerability Scanner 
Detect vulnerable, outdated, abandoned, or risky plugins before they become a threat.
</li>
<li>
📈 WordPress Forum Monitoring 
Track forum activities, topic changes, replies, moderation actions, and user interactions.
</li>
<li>
🧱 Firewall with Emergency Shutdown 
Instantly block malicious traffic and force-logout active sessions during emergencies.
</li>
<li>
⏱ Cron Job & Downtime Monitoring 
Monitor scheduled tasks, detect failures, and get alerts when your site goes down.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>🛍️ Perfect for</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Enhancing Website Security 
Instantly detect suspicious activity on WordPress, block threats, and remotely trigger emergency shutdowns.
</li>
<li>
Admin & Team Management 
Learn how to monitor user activity on a WordPress site with detailed audit logs, role tracking, and accountability.
</li>
<li>
Developers & Agencies 
Track plugin/theme updates, configuration changes, fatal errors, and debug logs across multiple client sites.
</li>
<li>
Real-Time Activity Logging 
Track who changed a WordPress page or post, including edits, deletions, status changes, and metadata updates.
</li>
<li>
WooCommerce Store Owners 
Receive alerts for orders, payments, refunds, coupons, stock changes, shipping updates, and customer actions.
</li>
<li>
WooCommerce Incomplete Orders Analytics 
Analyze abandoned carts, checkout drop-offs, recovery potential, recovery rate, and customer cart interactions.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>🛡️ Advanced Security Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>IP Blocking (Manual, CIDR, Conditional Rules) </li>
<li>Emergency shutdown for active user sessions </li>
<li>Cloudflare Turnstile login protection </li>
<li>Custom HTTP security headers & WordPress version hiding </li>
<li>Core file integrity scanner </li>
<li>Bot detection and automatic blocking </li>
<li>Disable or restrict XML-RPC </li>
<li>File Integrity Monitoring (core, plugins, themes) </li>
<li>404 error tracking </li>
<li>Block vulnerability scanners </li>
<li>Block TOR network access </li>
<li>Admin dashboard visitor tracking </li>
<li>Login rate limiting (login log protection) </li>
<li>Suspicious HTTP request alerts </li>
<li>Cron job and downtime monitoring</li>
</ul>
<h3>🧱 Plugin Security Scanner</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatically scan plugins, themes, and core files for known vulnerabilities </li>
<li>Detect outdated or insecure plugins </li>
<li>Flag abandoned or poorly rated plugins </li>
<li>Confirm compatibility with current WordPress version </li>
<li>Cross-check issues against multiple vulnerability databases</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔔 Updates and Notifier System  </h3>
<ul>
<li>🚨 Real-time alerts for Core File Changes via Slack, Telegram, and Email </li>
<li>📦 Plugin and theme update alerts with updater name  </li>
<li>🛍 WooCommerce sales and coupon usage notifications  </li>
<li>🕒 Incomplete order follow-ups to recover lost sales  </li>
<li>✏️ Product edits, stock changes, and shipping updates  </li>
<li>📪 Billing and shipping address modifications  </li>
<li>🌟 Daily review and 🆘 support notifications  </li>
<li>📈 Weekly plugin download summaries  </li>
<li>📝 Page, post, taxonomy updates and deletions (Helps Track who changed a page or post)  </li>
<li>📬 Track logins, registrations, user role changes (Comprehensive login log)  </li>
<li>🛠 Admin settings updates and form submission alerts </li>
</ul>
<h3>👨‍💻 Admin & Developer Tools  </h3>
<ul>
<li>🔒 Maintenance mode toggle  </li>
<li>🧭 Menu and widget activity tracking  </li>
<li>📑 Plugin/theme activation and deactivation logs  </li>
<li>🧰 Script modification detection  </li>
<li>🧾 Log all HTTP security header changes  </li>
<li>📉 Debug logs and fatal error detection  </li>
<li>📤 Email delivery tracking through detailed email log  </li>
<li>👀 Form integration alerts (Contact Form 7, Simple Form, more)  </li>
</ul>
<h3>📈 Why Choose Activity Guard Over Other Activity Log Plugins?  </h3>
Activity Guard is your comprehensive solution for Real-time user monitoring WP. With robust Security features, WooCommerce integrations, and Real-time alerts for critical changes, it offers unparalleled functionality compared to other plugins. 
<ul>
<li>✅ Rich, intuitive Activity Log with advanced filtering  </li>
<li>📊 Visual charts and graphs for clear audit log summaries (Easily Generate activity log reports for WordPress)  </li>
<li>⚡ Real-time Slack and email notifier alerts  </li>
<li>🛠 Smart automation and developer-friendly tools  </li>
<li>🔐 Military-grade security features with minimal bloat  </li>
<li>🛍 Tailored support for WooCommerce events (A must-have WooCommerce activity log)  </li>
<li>📧 Built-in email log and User Tracking  </li>
<li>🧘 Clean, modern interface anyone can use</li>
</ul>
<h3>Final Thoughts</h3>
Activity Guard is the Best WordPress plugin to track all changes, acting as your all-in-one activity log, notifier, user log, email log, and security plugin designed to keep your WordPress site safe, efficient, and well-monitored.
With real-time alerts, detailed logs, and robust features, you’ll never miss a thing from How to monitor user activity on a WordPress site to site vulnerabilities.
Try Activity Guard today and bring total visibility and WordPress Security to your WordPress site.
Don’t just take our word for it – try Activity Guard yourself and experience the difference!
Secure your WordPress site and stay informed with Activity Guard – your all-in-one solution for Real-time user monitoring WP and WordPress activity log plugin.
<h3>Documentation & Support</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpazleen.com/notifier-to-slack/" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpazleen.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WPAzleen/playlists" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/jOyU2jxTmfY?si=xoaxFLgFhszXmuFx" rel="nofollow ugc">Setup Video</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<h3>Slack Webhook Integration</h3>
Activity Guard allows you to send notifications of all active actions directly to your Slack workspace using Slack webhooks. This feature enables real-time monitoring of plugin activities.
<h3>🔧 Webhook Configuration</h3>
The plugin uses the Slack incoming webhook URL you provide to send notifications to your Slack channel.
To set up an incoming webhook for your Slack workspace:
<ol>
<li>Create a new app or use an existing one </li>
<li>Activate <a href="https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks" rel="nofollow ugc">Incoming Webhooks</a> for your app </li>
<li>Add a new webhook to your workspace </li>
<li>Copy the webhook URL and paste it into the plugin settings</li>
</ol>
<h3>Cloudflare Turnstile</h3>
Activity Guard also uses <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a> to enhance security and prevent spam. For more details, please refer to Cloudflare’s <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a>.
<h3>Plugin Security Scanner</h3>
This component checks for known vulnerabilities in installed WordPress plugins by analyzing various public and private data sources. It runs a series of automated security checks and provides recommendations.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Detects outdated plugins</li>
<li>Flags abandoned plugins (not updated in over a year)</li>
<li>Checks WordPress version compatibility</li>
<li>Warns about low install counts</li>
<li>Analyzes plugin ratings</li>
<li>Checks against multiple vulnerability databases</li>
</ul>
<h3>Data Sources</h3>
<ul>
<li>
WordPress.org Plugin API 
Used to retrieve plugin metadata such as latest version, last updated date, rating, active installs, etc. 
📄 <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/" rel="ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
</li>
<li>
WPAzleen API (<code>/wp-json/wpx/v1/plugin-vulnerabilities</code>) 
Custom API endpoint to fetch known vulnerabilities for specific plugins and versions. 
📄 No sensitive data is transmitted. Private API complies with plugin author’s data policy. <a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
</li>
<li>
WPVulnerability.net 
Public API used to retrieve CVE-based vulnerability data for WordPress plugins. 
📄 <a href="https://www.wpvulnerability.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
</li>
<li>
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) 
Checks against known CVEs using official NVD data. 
📄 <a href="https://www.nist.gov/oism/site-privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
</li>
</ul>
Activity Guard does not collect, store, or transmit any sensitive or personal information to performed the scan. All scans and checks are performed locally using public plugin metadata and vulnerability sources.
<h3>Freemius</h3>
Activity Guard an renamed version of Notifier to Slack utilizes the <a href="https://freemius.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freemius</a> SDK to collect limited telemetry data, only upon the user’s explicit confirmation. This data helps us troubleshoot issues efficiently and improve our product for a better user experience.
<h3>🔐 Key Points:</h3>
<ol>
<li>
No Data Collected by Default 
The Freemius SDK does not collect any data by default. Data collection only begins when the user consents via the admin notice displayed in the plugin interface.
</li>
<li>
User Confirmation Required 
Integration of the Freemius SDK does not automatically enable data collection. Data is only gathered after users confirm their consent.
</li>
<li>
Purpose of Data Collection 
The collected data is used solely to enhance the user experience, resolve issues more effectively, and improve the plugin’s functionality.
</li>
</ol>
For more details about Freemius and its data practices, please visit their <a href="https://freemius.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">FAQ page</a>.
Additionally, you can review WPAzleen’s <a href="https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a> for further information.

Complete Security, Activity Log & WooCommerce Analytics Tracker – Activity Guard


Excellent plugin and easy to setup thanks for the video.


Original idea and super useful plugin!

Track user, support forum & system activity log, monitor WooCommerce analytics with complete WordPress Security with activity guard.

Social Chat Buttons vs Complete Security, Activity Log & WooCommerce Analytics Tracker – Activity Guard