Live chat for WordPress and WooCommerce. Add Olark live chat to your WordPress and make your business human.
As of April 2026, Olark Live Chat is a WordPress chatbox plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 2.5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 44K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP 4.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Group chat for WordPress – Minnit Chat.
79% of businesses say live chat increased their customer loyalty, sales, and revenue. Grow your business quickly and effectively with Olark live chat for WordPress, the most user-friendly chat integration around!
You don’t have to take our word for it though. Here’s how one of our customers on WordPress described his experience:
“We chose Olark due to how easy it was to install and get my less than tech-savvy team effective at using it. We have won some very large opportunities through live chat. It’s clear that there is a segment of customers we want to do business with that prefer live chat….”
Christopher Dunkin, General Manager of Portable Air (See the story)
Olark’s WordPress chat plugin takes just seconds to add to your website, so you can…
Still charging my client full amount ($552/year) and the plugin is so neglected that it has been fully deactivated in the WordPress marketplace.
Finally, will have something stable! Thank you to the always awesome team at Olark. Just one thing to fix on my side, and the only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars, how can I make it multilingual now? (I use wpml). Thanks!
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 4.3+ required |
Fixed version mismatch between plugin header and README stable tag
Improved plugin compatibility and WordPress standards compliance
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