Chat Room

by webdevstudios

Description

The Chat Room plugin allows administrators to easily create chat rooms for their users to participate in. Chat rooms are created via the WordPress administrative interface. After creation, users can access it via the permalink for the chat room.

The plugin currently will only support servers that have direct PHP filesystem access, which may not be available on all hosting environments.

All official development on this plugin is on GitHub. Version bumps will still be published here on WordPress.org. You can find the repo at https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Chat-Room. Please file issues, bugs, and enhancement ideas there, when possible.

Pluginize was launched in 2016 by WebDevStudios to promote, support, and house all of their WordPress products. Pluginize is not only creating new products for WordPress all the time, but also provides ongoing support and development for WordPress community favorites like CPTUI, CMB2, and more.

Installation

Upload chat-room folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Create chat rooms via newly added menu item.

Screenshots

An example of a chat room in use within the Twenty Eleven theme.
The chat rooms are easily modifiable in the admin interface.
Chat rooms only require a title.

Reviews

Love It Cool

By patriciaburnette2018 on May 18, 2019

This is an Easy Chat to install and it even works with my layout.... at first I chose one rumbletalk or something like that, and free users on can get like 5 users and had to install the code in all 100 pages. This all I had to do was create a Chat Room, Name it and right click on the link and VIOLA YAYAY Thanks!!!! Idea, how can we ad like smilies or something like that?? Awesome Plugin I Love It!!!!

Simply The Best

By sudblivry on February 7, 2018

It's the best free app Chat that allows multi users to chat all together in the same window. I was looking for this solution for my registered users. I did not need a chat for "customers" with issues. My site is only accessible to registered (and logged) users. It's a small community of less than 300 users. What I would like for them now would be a basic mobile app that would allow them to access this chat + the site form there phones... one day... maybe.

Almost perfect

By Mosche (mosche) on July 25, 2017

I've tried out this plugin, and I must say it's absolutely great. As far as I'm concerned it's a 5 star as is. I use it as part of a WordPress based Learning Management System. So the students can interact with each other in their private chat rooms. However I only have one gripe with it. It displays the login name in the chat. For security reasons, I've hidden the administrators usernames from the entire site. I was going to ask if it could be changed from username to nickname or display-name instead. As that would keep the "real" name of the admin hidden, while showing the students who's in the room. But after thinking about it. I realized I can just register several usernames called "moderator" with a prefix or suffix, and that solves the problem. So I won't be doing any requests. It's great as is. Great job guys! Love your plugin!

Easy to instal, very customizable

By skysignature on July 2, 2017

Great widget! Thank you for creating this. It is the only chat room widget I found that was free, easy to customize with CSS and easy to install. Some additions for the future that would be great are to add a section with "currently online users". Also a "send" button beside the textarea. Also, it would be cool if the chatroom have one main room and had different categories/chat rooms within the same widget. But the plugin as-in works great

Doesn't work

By Rocco Marco Guglielmi (roccomarco) on December 31, 2016

Simply a mess. It creates problems with page style. There was two additional misplaced texboxes and writing in them on the chat it appears only my nickname.

Widget

By landonbm on December 12, 2016

Can you make this chat room be available on sidebar(widget)??

Okay Plugin

By BijouFashion on September 3, 2016

This plugin worked with no problems, however, because it has no customization options, its practically useless to me. Here are some basic issues I had with the plugin:

* Moderation - There is no way to moderate the chat room. If people use curse words or words that you feel is inappropriate, there is no way to delete them.

* Page/Post Layout - This plugin created a post, however, there is no way to edit the layout (full width, sidebar/content, etc.). This was the deal breaker for me.

* Users - I have a membership site and it would be nice to know who's on the page utilizing the chat. It does show me as "Admin" when I post, however, there is not a list of users and there is no way to show this. I would like to know who's in the chatroom before they post.

This plugin will be great for someone/business that need to chat with one person about a project or something of this nature. However, for a chat room solution, it would not be recommended. There is no way to moderate it so this would be a recipe for a disaster.

I wish there was a "pro" version that offered more options.

I love it!

By Liquidation on September 3, 2016

Congratulations! Simple and efficient plugin! I love it!

Changelog

0.1.3

Touch up on some security/sanitization.

0.1.2

Fix auto-scroll of the div down to new messages for Windows FF.

0.1.1

Fix bug that hid display of contents of non-chat room post types.

0.1

Initial release