Chat Room
The Chat Room plugin allows administrators to easily create chat rooms for their users to participate in. Chat rooms are created via the WordPress administrative interface. After creation, users can access it via the…
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Chat Room shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 80+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 34/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (80+ active installs)
- No update in 9 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.7 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Chat Room stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| chat room | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 from 13 reviews
About Chat Room
From the official readme · v0.1.3Description
The Chat Room plugin allows administrators to easily create chat rooms for their users to participate in. Chat rooms are created via the WordPress administrative interface. After creation, users can access it via the permalink for the chat room.
The plugin currently will only support servers that have direct PHP filesystem access, which may not be available on all hosting environments.
All official development on this plugin is on GitHub. Version bumps will still be published here on WordPress.org. You can find the repo at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Chat-Room. Please file issues, bugs, and enhancement ideas there, when possible.
Pluginize was launched in 2016 by WebDevStudios to promote, support, and house all of their WordPress products. Pluginize is not only creating new products for WordPress all the time, but also provides ongoing support and development for WordPress community favorites like CPTUI, CMB2, and more.
Installation
- Upload
chat-roomfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Create chat rooms via newly added menu item.
Changelog
0.1.3
- Touch up on some security/sanitization.
0.1.2
- Fix auto-scroll of the div down to new messages for Windows FF.
0.1.1
- Fix bug that hid display of contents of non-chat room post types.
0.1
- Initial release
Screenshots
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FAQ
Chat Room: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Sep 29, 2026
Is Chat Room free?
Yes. Chat Room is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Chat Room safe to use in 2026?
Chat Room shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 80+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 34/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Chat Room?
Chat Room is active on 80+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 50,268 times since it launched in October 2012. It was downloaded 97 times in the last 30 days.
Does Chat Room work with WordPress 7.1?
Chat Room is officially tested up to WordPress 4.7.37, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Chat Room last updated?
The latest version, 0.1.3, was released on March 11, 2017 (10 years ago).
Who makes Chat Room?
Chat Room is developed and maintained by webdevstudios.
What are the best alternatives to Chat Room?
The most popular alternatives to Chat Room are Better Messages (10K+ installs), RumbleTalk Live Group Chat (600+ installs) and Website Toolbox Chat Room (10+ installs).
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