Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026
AI Chatbot & Live Chat – WebChatAgent
Active installs300+ rounded
Current authorWebChatAgent
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release5 days ago 02 Sep 2026
Support— no recent threads
Releases on record4
Rating5.0 /5 · 2
Added to directory14 May 2025
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Tested up toWP 7.0.4 WordPress is now on 7.1
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Ownership
Held by WebChatAgent throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.
Adoption
How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.
Small but established: 300+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.
45 downloads a day over the last 7 days, rising 182% against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.
08 Aug 2026peak 164/day07 Sep 2026
Install band fell to 300+ on 22 Aug 2026, from 400+. Both figures are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable from them.
Daily record
Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.
| Field | 25 Aug | 26 Aug | 27 Aug | 28 Aug | 29 Aug | 30 Aug | 31 Aug | 01 Sep | 02 Sep | 03 Sep | 04 Sep | 05 Sep | 06 Sep | 07 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Downloads that day | — | 22 | 11 | 22 | 23 | 11 | 22 | 11 | 22 | 38 | 164 | 23 | 33 | 22 |
| Version | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.6 |
Unchanged throughout: ratings total (2) · active installs (300+) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)
37 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.
Maintenance
When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.
Added to directory16 months ago 14 May 2025
Requires WP5.8
Requires PHP7.4
Version lag0.1 behind
Is anyone still maintaining this?
- Last released 02 Sep 2026, 6 days ago.
- Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 7.0.4, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 1 release.
- WebChatAgent publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.
A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.
History
Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.
- 02 Sep 20265 days agoVersion 1.1.6 released
- 21 Aug 202617 days agoInstall band moved to 400+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 14 Aug 202624 days agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 11 Aug 202627 days agoInstall band moved to 400+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 05 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 1.1.5 released
- 03 Aug 20261 month agoVersion 1.1.4 released
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoInstall band moved to 300+Bands are rounded to one significant digit, so the size of the change is not knowable.
- 02 Aug 20261 month agoFirst observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
- 29 Jul 20261 month agoVersion 1.1.3 released
- 14 May 202516 months agoAdded to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.
What we know, and what we don’t
Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.
What we know
- It has been held by WebChatAgent for all 37 days we have observed it.
- It was last released 5 days ago (02 Sep 2026).
- Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.0.4; WordPress is now on 7.1.
- WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
- It carries 2 ratings, averaging 5.0 out of 5.
What we don’t know yet
- No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.
Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see
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