WordPress Plugin Review: Email Chat Contact Button Sidebar

Written by | Posted in Blogging | Posted on Date 17-12-2009 | Comments 1 Comment
Tags:

Email Chat Contact Button Sidebar is a plugin designed by the creators of ContactMeButton.com with the purpose of extending more ways your visitors can contact you. The plugin allows your readers to contact you through email, live chat, or even instant messenger services, rather than go to separate pages (in some cases of how people set up their site) to get the information and end up leaving your website. The concept of this keeps your visitors on your website.

To use this plugin, you have to sign up at ContactMeButton.com. You will have to go into WordPress admin panel and enter your ContactMeButton.com username so the plugin will work. You can then drag and drop a widget into your sidebar that will display a contact button.

The problem is that this makes you sign up and there is only a 30 day free trial. No offense, then this should not even be listed in the WordPress.org plugin directory unless the creator changes the description to inform people they put ads in the free version (which, remember – is only a 30 day trial anyway.) Currently, there is no disclaimer or notice that this is only a 30 day free trial nor that there are ads. Anyway, after the free trial, the pricing starts at $5 per month and limits your emails received to 120 per month and 60 chat sessions. And even so, you are limited to email and chat received.

You are better off using open source and FREE services like Crafty Syntax Live Help (which is not a WordPress plugin nor comes with one, but its own script that you can copy and paste the source into a sidebar text/html widget) and Oggchat (only allows for one chat operator for their free plan) that allow you to see when the person is online.

It is a nice idea for a plugin, but there are other ways people can get by this without having to sign up and possibly pay another cent.

Have you heard of this plugin or tried it? What do you think?

Related posts:

  1. WordPress Plugin Review: Sidebar Tabs
  2. News For Chat Catcher Plugin Users
  3. Chat Catcher Plugin- Shutting Down

About Nile Flores

Connect with Nile at: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Nile has written 78 articles at Blondish.net.

Comment Policy

Please do not leave just keywords for your name. You will no longer be approved if you do unless that it is your Intense Debate username. The correct way to leave your name is YOUR NAME @ YOUR KEYWORD if you choose to use a keyword.

Comments (1)

  • wpaddict (WP Addict) says:
    September 7, 2010 at 5:33 am

    Twitter Comment


    WordPress Plugin Review: Email Chat Contact Button Sidebar [link to post]

    – Posted using Chat Catcher

    Reply

    • Write a comment

    CommentLuv badge
    You can add a link to follow you on twitter if you put your username in this box.
    Only needs to be added once (unless you change your username). No http or @