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?
Love this plugin, it fulfilled the need to contact us page. Thanks Nile for this awesome plugin. My web hosting blog really needs this plugin to chat with the customer as a live chat support person.