Descripción
Etaks Live Chat is a modern, lightweight, and privacy-friendly live chat plugin for WordPress. Connect directly with your website visitors, answer presale questions, and provide instant customer support without paying expensive monthly subscription fees to third-party services.
All chat messages and conversations are stored securely inside your own WordPress database. There are no external tracking scripts, no third-party cloud dependencies, and zero performance bloat.
Key Features
- Sleek Floating Chat Widget: Eye-catching floating action button with customizable pulsating animation and mobile-optimized sliding chat window.
- Real-Time Customer Conversations: Seamless back-and-forth messaging with dynamic typing indicators and optimistic message sending.
- Integrated Admin Chat Dashboard: Intuitive WordPress admin panel to review live inquiries, reply in real time, and archive resolved conversations.
- Date Filters & Search: Filter conversations by date or search historical chat sessions in seconds.
- Automated Welcome & Auto-Reply: Greet visitors automatically when they open the chat and request their contact details upon their first message.
- Complete Visual Customization: Easily adjust brand primary colors with live preview, upload custom widget icons and agent avatars via the WordPress Media Uploader.
- 11 Languages Built-in & RTL Support: Switch between English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, Uzbek, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic (with native right-to-left layout) directly from settings.
- System Health & Diagnostics: Built-in table inspector with a one-click database table repair tool.
Third-Party Services
This plugin provides an optional WhatsApp contact channel allowing website visitors to initiate a direct chat conversation via WhatsApp. When a visitor clicks the WhatsApp button, they are directed to https://api.whatsapp.com/ to open WhatsApp Web or the WhatsApp application. No personal data or visitor records are automatically transmitted to WhatsApp.
- WhatsApp Service: https://www.whatsapp.com/
- WhatsApp Terms of Service: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service
- WhatsApp Privacy Policy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy
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Instalación
- Upload the
etaks-live-chatfolder to your/wp-content/plugins/directory, or install the plugin directly through the WordPress plugins dashboard. - Activate the plugin via the Plugins screen in WordPress.
- Go to Etaks Chat in your WordPress admin menu to configure your brand colors, widget title, and automated greeting messages.
- The floating chat widget will now appear automatically for your website visitors!
FAQ
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Does Etaks Live Chat require any external service or monthly fees?
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No. Etaks Live Chat runs 100% locally on your WordPress installation. There are no subscription fees, third-party accounts, or monthly charges.
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Where are chat conversations saved?
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All conversation records and messages are saved directly in a dedicated table inside your WordPress database.
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Can I customize the chat colors and images?
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Yes! You can choose your brand color, select from built-in color presets with instant live preview, and upload your custom widget icon and support avatar using the WordPress Media Library.
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Is the chat widget mobile-friendly?
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Yes. The chat window and floating button adapt dynamically to smartphones, tablets, and desktop displays.
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How do I clean up data when deleting the plugin?
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If you uninstall the plugin from the WordPress Plugins screen, all plugin database tables and options are safely deleted automatically via
uninstall.php.
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Historial de cambios
1.7.1
- Added smart collision avoidance and symmetric positioning above theme “Back to top” buttons.
- Automatically detects theme scroll-to-top buttons (Astra, OceanWP, GeneratePress, Kadence, Divi, Avada, etc.) and seamlessly floats above them to prevent overlapping.
- Added smooth transition animations when back-to-top buttons appear or toggle during page scroll.
1.7.0
- WordPress.org Plugin Directory compliance update.
- Updated plugin slug to etaks-live-chat and standardized distinctive prefixes.
- Improved admin menu placement and removed external asset files.
1.6.0
- Complete WordPress.org Plugin Directory compliance.
- Standardized text domain and plugin slug to etaks-live-chat.
- Fixed real-time admin conversation display and response management.
- Enhanced database repair diagnostics and added third-party disclosure for WhatsApp integration.
- Added full security escaping and capability validation across all endpoints.
1.4.1
- Removed top banner header section for a clean, distraction-free WordPress admin interface.
- Removed redundant card icons for clean, modern card headers.
- Added instant live color update to the floating action button preview circle when adjusting color picker or presets.
- Added official WordPress.org banners (772×250, 1544×500), icons (128×128, 256×256), and screenshots.
- Reordered readme sections (Description, Installation, FAQ, Changelog, Screenshots) matching the WordPress plugin directory modal tabs.
1.4.0
- Complete compliance with WordPress.org Plugin Directory guidelines.
- Modern clean UI view with empty state illustrations, segmented navigation tabs, and polished settings cards.
- Added 11 built-in languages covering both visitor widget and entire admin dashboard (English, Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, Uzbek, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic RTL).
- Added System Health & Diagnostics with one-click database table repair tool.
- Added live color preview on the floating action button and primary branding controls.
- Added official WordPress.org banners, icons, and screenshot assets.
- Automatic migration to new etaks globe logo assets and legacy setting sanitization.
- Added nonce validation and user capability checks on all AJAX endpoints.
- Fixed XSS vulnerabilities by implementing strict escaping across frontend and admin scripts.
- Upgraded database schema with indexing and clean
uninstall.phphandler.
1.0.0
- Initial release.