Tap Chat Team

<p><strong>Tap Chat</strong> adds a beautiful floating WhatsApp button with advanced features. Set business hours, show welcome messages with multiple styles, control visibility, and customize appearance – all while keeping your site fast and privacy-friendly.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Floating Chat Button</strong> – Beautiful, customizable button that sticks to your site</li>
<li><strong>Custom Icon Upload</strong> – Replace WhatsApp icon with your own brand logo or custom image</li>
<li><strong>Welcome Bubble</strong> – Friendly greeting message to encourage conversations with two styles (Modern & Simple)</li>
<li><strong>Smart Triggers</strong> – Show the bubble at the perfect moment based on visitor behavior</li>
<li><strong>Country Selector</strong> – Easy phone number configuration with 150+ country codes and flags</li>
<li><strong>Working Hours</strong> – Display button only during business hours with timezone support</li>
<li><strong>Page Visibility</strong> – Show or hide button on specific pages/posts</li>
<li><strong>Fully Customizable</strong> – Colors, sizes, positions, labels – make it yours</li>
<li><strong>Mobile Optimized</strong> – Separate mobile/desktop configurations</li>
<li><strong>Zero Tracking</strong> – GDPR-friendly, no cookies, no external requests</li>
<li><strong>Translation Ready</strong> – Fully translatable with .pot file included</li>
<li><strong>Performance First</strong> – Minimal footprint, no jQuery dependencies in frontend</li>
</ul>
<h4>Welcome Bubble Features</h4>
<p>The welcome bubble is designed to increase engagement and conversions:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Two Beautiful Styles:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Modern – Rich bubble with avatar, name, and online status</li>
<li>Simple – Clean bubble with message only, positioned above or beside button</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Smart Triggers</strong> – Show bubble based on visitor behavior:</p>
<ul>
<li>Time on Page – After visitor spends specific time (recommended)</li>
<li>Scroll Depth – When visitor scrolls to specific percentage</li>
<li>Exit Intent – When visitor moves to close tab/window</li>
<li>Idle Detection – When visitor is inactive</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Customization Options:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Custom welcome message with emoji support</li>
<li>Agent/team name display (Modern style)</li>
<li>Avatar image upload (Modern style)</li>
<li>Multiple trigger combinations</li>
<li>Auto-close on interaction</li>
<li>Session-based display (won’t annoy visitors)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Custom Icon Upload:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Replace default WhatsApp icon with your brand logo</li>
<li>Supports PNG, JPG, SVG formats</li>
<li>Perfect circular display with automatic sizing</li>
<li>Works in floating button, offline button, and bubble avatar</li>
<li>Easy fallback to default icon</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Business Hours Control:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Set different hours for each day of the week</li>
<li>Timezone support for accurate scheduling</li>
<li>Custom offline message</li>
<li>Choose to hide button or show offline state</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Visibility Rules:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Show on specific pages only</li>
<li>Hide on specific pages (e.g., checkout, cart)</li>
<li>Combine show/hide rules for precise control</li>
<li>Support for all post types and WooCommerce pages</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Customization Options:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Button position (left/right)</li>
<li>Custom colors</li>
<li>Icon sizes (separate for desktop/mobile)</li>
<li>Hide/show label on mobile or desktop</li>
<li>Pre-filled message text</li>
<li>Page context appending (automatic page info in message)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>E-commerce stores (WooCommerce ready)</li>
<li>Service businesses</li>
<li>Support teams</li>
<li>Real estate agents</li>
<li>Consultants</li>
<li>Educational institutions</li>
<li>Healthcare providers</li>
<li>Any business that wants instant communication</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translation Ready</h4>
<p>Tap Chat is fully translatable and includes:<br />
* English (default)<br />
* German (Deutsch) – coming soon<br />
* Spanish (Español) – coming soon<br />
* French (Français) – coming soon<br />
* RTL language support</p>
<p>Want to translate? Submit your translation and get credit!</p>
<h4>Privacy & GDPR</h4>
<ul>
<li>No tracking or analytics</li>
<li>No cookies stored</li>
<li>No external requests</li>
<li>No data collection</li>
<li>100% GDPR compliant</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p><strong>Shortcode:</strong><br />
Display chat link anywhere with: <code>[tapchat]</code></p>
<p><strong>Custom shortcode parameters:</strong><br />
    [tapchat phone=”+1234567890″ message=”Hello!” label=”Contact us”]</p>
<h4>Technical Details</h4>
<ul>
<li>Clean, semantic HTML5</li>
<li>Modern CSS3 with smooth animations</li>
<li>Vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery frontend dependency)</li>
<li>Follows WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Passes WordPress.org plugin review</li>
<li>Regular security updates</li>
<li>Compatible with all major themes and page builders</li>
</ul>
<h4>Mobile Experience</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fully responsive design</li>
<li>Touch-optimized interactions</li>
<li>Native app integration</li>
<li>Separate mobile size controls</li>
<li>Optional label hiding on mobile</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customization</h4>
<p>Make Tap Chat match your brand:<br />
* Custom button colors with color picker<br />
* Adjustable icon sizes<br />
* Flexible positioning<br />
* Label customization<br />
* Modern or Simple bubble styles<br />
* Custom welcome messages<br />
* Avatar personalization<br />
* Upload custom icons</p>
<h4>What’s New in 1.6.0</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Improved Admin UX</strong> – Tab navigation without page refresh</li>
<li><strong>Unified Settings</strong> – All settings save together from any tab</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Bubble Positioning</strong> – Bubble automatically adjusts to icon size</li>
<li><strong>Better Responsive Behavior</strong> – Perfect alignment on all screen sizes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Tap Chat does not:<br />
* Collect any user data<br />
* Use cookies or browser storage (except sessionStorage for bubble display)<br />
* Make external HTTP requests<br />
* Track or monitor user behavior<br />
* Share data with third parties</p>
<p>The only data processed is:<br />
* Phone number (stored in WordPress database)<br />
* User preferences (stored in WordPress database)<br />
* Temporary session data for bubble display (sessionStorage, cleared when browser closes)</p>
<p>When users click the chat button, they are redirected to the chosen messaging service, which is governed by that service’s privacy policy.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Need help? We’re here for you!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Documentation:</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/tap-chat/" rel="ugc">Plugin documentation</a></li>
<li><strong>Support Forum:</strong> <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tap-chat/" rel="ugc">WordPress.org support</a></li>
<li><strong>Bug Reports:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/wpdevup/tap-chat/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub issues</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Icons from messaging platform brand resources</li>
<li>Country flags from Unicode emoji standard</li>
<li>Developed with love by Tapchat Team</li>
</ul>
<h3>Roadmap</h3>
<p>Planned features for future versions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple agents support with round-robin</li>
<li>Custom working hours per agent</li>
<li>Analytics dashboard (privacy-friendly)</li>
<li>More bubble styles and animations</li>
<li>Team chat widget</li>
<li>Pre-chat form</li>
<li>Quick replies templates</li>
<li>Multi-language welcome messages</li>
<li>Integration with popular form plugins</li>
</ul>
<p>Want a specific feature? Let us know in the support forum!</p>


Tap Chat


Clean, fast, and feature-rich without being bloated. The working hours feature is brilliant for my customer support team. Timezone support works flawlessly. Setup took 3 minutes. Highly recommended!


Best lightweight WhatsApp plugin


This plugin is very useful, customizable and easy to use.


Very useful and customizable

Lightweight WhatsApp chat button with welcome bubble, working hours, page controls. GDPR-friendly, no tracking.

Wombat Plugins

studiowombat

<ul>
<li>Use Blocks or shortcodes to display your opening times in any format anywhere on your website</li>
<li>Shortcodes & block to indicate if you are currently open or closed</li>
<li>Alternate message when you’re almost opening or closing</li>
<li>Shortcodes or block to display something only when you are open or closed</li>
<li>Easily style everything</li>
<li>4 widgets (does the same as the shortcodes)</li>
<li>Supports Vacations</li>
<li>Supports ‘special dates’ with different opening times (e.g: holidays)</li>
<li>Supports countdown until your next opening/closing time</li>
<li>Supports multiple locations</li>
<li>Developer API (more info below)</li>
<li>Frontend translated in: Dutch, German, English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish,<br />
Slovakian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic</li>
<li>beautiful & user-friendly settings screens for you, or your client, to work in</li>
</ul>
<p>Check out a complete list of features below.</p>
<h4>Quick links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://demo.studiowombat.com/bhi-demos/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">» Examples</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.studiowombat.com/knowledge-base/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">» Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.studiowombat.com/plugin/business-hours-indicator/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">» Pro Version</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>PHP 7.0 or higher</li>
<li>WordPress 3.7 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h4>General features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Shortcode to display business hours</li>
<li>Widget to display business hours</li>
<li>Shortcode to display if you’re currently open/closed</li>
<li>Widget to display if you’re currently open/closed</li>
<li>Shortcode to display content only when you’re open</li>
<li>Shortcode to display content only when you’re closed</li>
<li>Choose your prefered time zone</li>
<li>Display times in 12 or 24 hour format</li>
<li>Enter multiple locations for more businesses (up to 3 in the free version)</li>
<li>Include special hours such as holidays</li>
<li>Include vacation hours</li>
<li>Highlight the current day</li>
<li>Frontend translated in: Dutch, German, English, Greek, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish,<br />
Slovakian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Hungarian.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Displaying opening times</h4>
<ul>
<li>Show the opening hours in a table</li>
<li>Show the opening hours inline</li>
<li>Consolidate the output: group days with the same opening hours</li>
<li>Show/hide holiday hours</li>
<li>Show/hide vacation hours</li>
<li>Highlight the current day</li>
</ul>
<h4>Currently open/closed Indication</h4>
<ul>
<li>Edit the “we’re currently open” message</li>
<li>Edit the “we’re currently closed” message</li>
<li>Include the current time in the output</li>
<li>Include the current day in the output</li>
<li>Add an opening/closing soon warning like “hurry, we’re closing in 35 minutes”</li>
</ul>
<h4>Limitations</h4>
<p>The free version has some limitations you should be aware of. Our pro version (features below) fixes those.</p>
<ul>
<li>The free version does not work with caching mechanisms.</li>
<li>It’s not possible to add a break in opening hours.</li>
<li>You can add up to 3 locations in the free version.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Developer API</h4>
<p>Use the plugin anywhere in WordPress by using the following calls:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->is_open('location name')</code> returns true if the location is currently open. False otherwise.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->is_closed('location name')</code> returns true if the location is currently closed. False otherwise.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->get_opening_hours('location name')</code> returns an array of objects containing the location’s opening hours.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->get_specials('location name')</code> returns an array of objects containing the location’s special opening hours.</li>
<li><code>MBHILITE()->get_vacations('location name')</code> returns an array of objects containing the location’s vacations.</li>
</ul>
<p>More documentation coming soon.</p>
<h4>PRO FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports caching</li>
<li>SEO features</li>
<li>Enter unlimited multiple locations for more businesses</li>
<li>Multiple time slots/day for when you close at noon</li>
<li>Woocommerce support: disable orders + hide “add to cart” buttons when you are closed.</li>
<li>‘Message builder’ allows you to add dynamic codes to build any message you like. A few examples:
<ul>
<li>Today is March 8, we’re open from 9AM to 5PM.</li>
<li>It’s 7:12PM, we’re closed. We open again on Thursday, in 7 hours and 45 minutes.</li>
<li>Hurry, we’re closing in 13 minutes!</li>
<li>..And much more!</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Only show today’s opening times</li>
<li>Seasonal hours</li>
<li>Set how many minutes or hours in advance to show “opening/closing soon” message.</li>
<li>Customize output with line breaks & separators</li>
<li>Premium support</li>
<li>Receive updates & bugfixes</li>
<li>Show abbreviated days in outputs</li>
<li>More flexibility</li>
<li>Priority feauture requests</li>
<li>And more..!</li>
</ul>
<p>Find out more about the <a href="https://www.studiowombat.com/plugin/business-hours-indicator/?utm_source=wporg&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">pro version here</a></p>


Business Hours Indicator

Display opening hours and if you're currently open/closed, with countdown to next opening. Show or hide content only when open/closed & more!

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