WordPress is the most common host we see. The plugin route is the simplest install: zero theme edits, no FTP, no copy-paste of script tags. Three minutes from search to live.
This page walks you through the WordPress plugin install. If your WordPress is on a managed host where you cannot install plugins (rare on .org, blocked on most .com Personal plans), use the script-tag path instead — install with a script tag.
From your WordPress admin sidebar, go to Plugins → Add New. In the search box, type FoxChat. The official plugin is published by FoxChat and shows our logo in the listing. Click Install Now.
WordPress downloads and unpacks the plugin. The button changes to Activate when the install finishes — that takes only a few seconds on most hosts.
Click Activate. WordPress turns on the plugin and adds a FoxChat entry to your admin sidebar. The plugin self-registers with our API and creates a default site record on your FoxChat account if you don't have one yet.
Click the FoxChat sidebar entry. The settings page opens with a Connect to FoxChat button. Click it. A popup window opens for OAuth sign-in. Sign in with the same credentials you use at getfoxchat.com/login. The popup closes when authentication completes and the settings page now shows your account email.
If you don't have a FoxChat account yet, the settings page also has a Create account link that registers a fresh trial account using the email address on your WordPress profile.
If you have multiple FoxChat sites in your account (an agency might), the settings page shows a dropdown of sites associated with your account. Pick the one this WordPress install corresponds to. The plugin saves your choice; the bubble starts appearing on the front-end immediately.
If this WordPress install is a brand-new site that doesn't yet exist in your FoxChat account, click Create new site in the dropdown; the plugin creates one and uses your WordPress site title as the FoxChat site name.
Open your site's homepage in a new tab (logged out, or in an incognito window). The Foxy bubble should appear in the bottom-right corner within a couple of seconds. Click it; the chat panel opens.
If the bubble does not appear, the most common causes on WordPress are:
<body>. Rare, but a few page-builder themes do not respect the WordPress wp_footer hook. The plugin's settings page has a Fallback injection mode toggle for this case — enable it.The plugin settings page exposes the same configuration knobs as the script-tag install:
If you ever want to uninstall, go to Plugins, click Deactivate next to FoxChat, then Delete. The widget stops loading immediately. Your conversation history and knowledge base remain in your FoxChat account — the plugin uninstall does not touch the cloud-side data. To delete that too, log into your dashboard and remove the site there.
WordPress runs on a wide range of hosting setups. We've seen FoxChat install cleanly on all of these:
Install the plugin, activate, and Foxy is on your WordPress site in three minutes.
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