Add GetFoxChat to your Joomla site

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Yours has your own site ID in place of YOUR_SITE_ID.

How do you add GetFoxChat to Joomla, step by step?

1. Have your GetFoxChat account ready: the plugin's Get my Site ID button opens it and shows your Site ID. No account yet? Create one free.
2. Download the plugin package: https://getfoxchat.com/joomla/plg_system_getfoxchat.zip (keep it as a zip file). source
3. In the Joomla Administrator, select System, then Install, then Extensions. source
4. On the Upload Package File tab, select Browse for file and choose the zip, or drag and drop it. The install starts by itself. source
5. Go to System, Manage, Plugins, find System - GetFoxChat and enable it; plugins do nothing until they are enabled. source
6. Open System - GetFoxChat, press Get my Site ID, copy your Site ID from GetFoxChat, paste it into GetFoxChat Site ID and select Save & Close.
7. Back in GetFoxChat, press Check my site. The chat switches on once GetFoxChat finds the snippet on your live pages.

Joomla's own guide: Joomla User Guide: installing an extension. Checked 2026-10-10; if Joomla renames a menu, its guide has the current wording.

Joomla gotchas

• Plugins must be enabled before they work: if the chat does not show, check that System - GetFoxChat is enabled. source
• If your host limits upload size and the upload fails, the same guide describes installing from a folder instead. source
• The plugin adds the chat to public pages only, never to the administrator area, and makes no requests of its own.

How do you remove it later?

Go to System, Manage, Plugins and disable System - GetFoxChat (or clear its Site ID and save). To remove it completely: System, Manage, Extensions, select GetFoxChat and Uninstall.

The plugin is free and open source (GPL v2 or later). It works on Joomla 5.4 and Joomla 6, and updates itself through Joomla's own update screen.