About this plugin
Shumac Chat connects website visitors to WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, Instagram profiles, phone calls and email.
Developed by Shumac, led by Cabdisamad Ibrahim. org or the WordPress Foundation. Designed for businesses and course websites that need English/Somali contact choices and a configurable mobile layout.
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A complete click-to-chat plugin. Conversations continue in external apps; messages are not sent, received or stored inside WordPress.
- One responsive contact widget with custom colors, text, position and spacing.
- Six configurable contact channels. No visitor or click limits.
- English and Somali dashboard and default widget text.
- Live appearance preview, desktop/mobile controls and page exclusions.
- Keyboard controls and automatic text contrast for your brand color.
- No external JavaScript, fonts, analytics, cookies or account registration.
- Separate optional Shumac Chat Pro add-on for agents, schedules, targeting and message variables.
Privacy and external links
Shumac Chat stores the site owner’s contact details and settings in the site’s WordPress database. Enabled business contact details are public wherever the widget is displayed. It does not collect visitor events, store conversations, set tracking cookies, load remote scripts/fonts, or make background requests to messaging platforms or the developer.
Contact links are created locally. An external destination is opened only when a visitor clicks its button. At that point the browser or app connects to the selected service, which can receive network information such as an IP address and applies its own policies.
Visitors review and send messages in the selected service themselves. Do not put secrets or sensitive personal information into prefilled messages.
- WhatsApp: clicking opens https://wa.me/ with the configured business phone number and, when configured, a prefilled message in the URL. Service: https://www.whatsapp.com/. Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service. Privacy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy.
- Telegram: clicking opens https://t.me/ with the configured username. Service: https://telegram.org/. Terms: https://telegram.org/tos. Privacy: https://telegram.org/privacy.
- Messenger: clicking opens https://m.me/ with the configured Facebook Page username or ID. Service: https://www.messenger.com/. Terms: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php. Privacy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/.
- Instagram: clicking opens the configured profile at https://www.instagram.com/. It does not embed direct messaging. Terms: https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870. Privacy: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.
- Phone and email: tel: and mailto: links pass the configured business number or address to the visitor’s chosen phone or email application. The plugin does not place a call or send an email automatically.
Shumac Chat is independently developed and is not affiliated with or endorsed by these services. Website owners choose their accounts and are responsible for their own use of each service.
Support
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Upgrading from WPSomali Chat or My Iskuul Chat
Back up your site. Deactivate the old Pro add-on first, then the old Free plugin; do not delete them before migration. 4 if used.
Visit the Shumac Chat settings screen and verify your contacts, appearance, team settings and targeting before deleting the old packages. Shumac imports WPSomali settings first, or either older My Iskuul option format if WPSomali settings are absent. Existing Shumac options are never overwritten.
Custom colors, language, text and contact data are preserved. The new widget pauses while a previous brand’s Free or Pro package is active. Clear page caches after migration.
Custom integrations must update PHP hooks to the shumac_chat_ prefix, JavaScript references to ShumacChat/ShumacChatPro and CSS selectors to smchat-. Old Pro packages do not extend Shumac Chat. org account or reserved slug is changed by installing these ZIPs.
Translations
Interface labels use literal WordPress gettext calls with the shumac-chat text domain. WordPress language packs can provide community translations. php dictionary supplies an immediate Somali fallback for the plugin’s independent language selector, including installations with an English WordPress dashboard.
It makes no remote requests. Custom text remains unchanged.
Source and licensing
All runtime PHP, JavaScript and CSS are included as readable source; no build step, bundled framework, or remote code is required. 0-or-later. txt for licensing and asset details.