Help Scout
Release 6.5.7 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Add a contact form to your website, or embed Help Scout Be …
Plugin info
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Actively maintained • Last updated 30 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 6 reviews
Is Help Scout abandoned?
Likely maintained (last update 30 days ago).
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Description
Help Scout for WordPress
Thousands of businesses in more than 140 countries use Help Scout to make every customer support interaction more human & more helpful.
Features
This simple plugin takes only a few minutes to setup. It enables you to do a couple important things:
- Add a contact form to your site, which submits inquiriest to Help Scout
- Add a Help Scout Beacon to your site. Just paste your embed code and save.
Looking for more horsepower? Try Help Scout Desk.
Help Scout Desk is a premium plugin that adds a full-featured customer portal to your WordPress site. Customers can submit inquiries, see their complete history and more.
Installation
- Sign up for Help Scout if you don’t already have an account.
- Upload plugin folder to your
/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
- Open the settings for the plugin, then add your Application ID, App Secret, and Mailbox ID.
- Add
[hsd_form]shortcode to a page or post to capture contact submissions OR use the Help Scout beacon.
Have a look at the getting started guide for more detailed information on setting up Help Scout for WordPress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Beacon is included on all Free plans, so you can embed your Beacon using this plugin. However, the contact form requires an API key, and API access is only available for paying plans.
Review feed
Pretty Awesome, Almost as Awesome as Help Scout
Feature rich and well supported
Changelog
6.5.7
- Fix: Vulnerability fix #25
6.5.6
- Fix: Fixes beacon script not loading #60
6.5.4
- Fix: Fixes issues when posts are saved causing nonce error.
6.5.3
- Fix: Updates to WordPress coding standards.
6.5.1
- Fix: SSL Verify update
- Fix: Label Changes
5.0
- NEW: Full Beacon 2.0 support
- NEW: Move to new domain
- NEW: Admin found under settings
4.2.1
- Fix: Admin CSS Issue
4.2
- New: Option to reset customer ids
4.0.5
- Fix: Variable typos
4.0.4
- Fix: WYSIWYG editor not showing for HSD
- Fix: Explicitly send credentials for AJAX requests, since WPEngine has some issues.
4.0.3
- Fix: Admin hidden becuase of missing capability
4.0.1
- New: Support for Free Help Scout Plugin
- Fix: All tags will be in-sync

