Is Chatway Live Chat still maintained?
Actively maintained
Updated this month, with 100% of recent support threads resolved.
30K+
Active installs
5.0/5
Rating
2026-09-01
Last update
7.1
Tested up to WP
Does the author answer?
Of the last 9 support threads on WordPress.org, 9 are marked resolved and 0 are not — 0% unanswered. The plugin directory shows the threads but never this ratio, which is the part that tells you whether anyone is home.
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on 2026-09-16, covering 71,729 plugins. Active install counts are the directory’s own rounded buckets. “Looks abandoned” describes update cadence, not code quality — a simple plugin that does one thing may need no updates, but it also stops being tested against new WordPress releases.