Quick Chat

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License

Quick Chat is released under GPLv2 license.

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Description

WordPress has given a lot to the Linux community and to me personally so I've decided to give something back by making WordPress plugin for all of us to use. We all like to chat so I've decided to extend WordPress with quick and lightweight Ajax chat plugin. I've also decided to name this WordPress plugin "Quick Chat".

Features

Here are some of the features of Quick Chat WordPress chat plugin:

  • New in v4.10: Implement automatic private messages and chat rooms daily cleanup using WordPress cron API
  • Add PHP caching WordPress plugins like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache compatibility (See FAQ for more)
  • Add feature to configure which WordPress user role has Quick Chat moderator capability
  • Avoid losing CSS customizations after Quick Chat update (See FAQ for more)
  • Supports Quick Flag WordPress plugin to display country flag icons next to chat nicknames
  • You can set timeout for disabling updates to inactive user
  • Translating Quick Chat into your language is simple using Quick Chat online translation interface
  • Supports multiple private 1 on 1 chat sessions
  • Can filter bad words from your chat rooms
  • Admin users can easily download chat room transcripts
  • Besides gravatar.com avatars, local avatar plugins are also supported
  • Includes admin dashboard widget to chat with other admin users from your site backend
  • Has message input box character counter to limit message size
  • Allows admin users to instantly ban chat participant IP from chat
  • Has chat participants list for both sidebar and embedded chat
  • Site registered users can have their chat nicknames reserved
  • Site admins can reserve additional list of chat nicknames
  • Supports incoming messages sound notification for modern browsers
  • Supports unlimited number of separate chat rooms
  • User interface is translation friendly (translation template, Croatian, Italian, Czech, Romanian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, German, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Estonian, French, Finnish and Welsh (some partial) translation files provided)
  • Integrates with WordPress user accounts to use login name as chat nickname
  • Comes with quality set of emoticons to spice up your chat experience
  • Saves your website bandwidth by sending AJAX requests only when there are new messages

Requirements

  • PHP 5
  • Requires at least: WordPress 3.0
  • Tested up to: WordPress 3.4
  • Current version: Quick Chat 4.12

Installation

You can find up to date installation instructions on Quick Chat WordPress.org installation page.

FAQ

You can find up to date FAQ on Quick Chat WordPress.org FAQ page.

Changelog

You can find up to date change log on Quick Chat WordPress.org changelog page.

Your translations

One of the ways to help spread Quick Chat is by translating it into your language or updating existing translation by translating untranslated strings. To make it easier for you to translate Quick Chat to your language I've configured Quick Chat online translation interface using open source application named GlotPress. Using GlotPress hosted on TechyTalk.info you can translate Quick Chat into your own language without the need for any additional tools. My plan is to download translation files before every Quick Chat release and include them into official Quick Chat package. This way your translation files will be available to you and to all Quick Chat users right out the box.

To keep translation files free of spam, before you are able to translate you need to register for TechyTalk.info user account. Then you can log into Quick Chat online translation interface using the following link:

I would like to thank all users who have manually submitted Quick Chat translation files. From the technical point of view I will think about ways to continue giving credit to all existing translation authors as well as new translators now that Quick Chat is using GlotPress for translation.

Your donations

Quick Chat is open source web application created by single person and released under GPLv2 license. This means that you can use or even modify Quick Chat free of charge. Open source development and user support for my WordPress plugins takes at least few hours of my every day so if you find Quick Chat useful you can donate to help it's development. Thanks in advance.

Your feedback

Your feedback would be very appreciated. If you discover any bugs please describe your problem here or using Contact form and I will do my best to resolve it. Feature requests and comments are also welcome and I will try to fulfill any feature requests.

Quick Chat stable version

Quick Chat is hosted by official WordPress plugin directory so that is where you can get it:

Quick Chat next version

If you have time and want to help making Quick Chat better you can test Quick Chat testing versions on your server and post feedback. Quick Chat version posted here will be uploaded to WordPress.org once it is reasonably stable.

Not yet available.

Changelog:

  • Not yet available.

Download:

  • Not yet available.

Quick Chat old versions

If latest Quick Chat version isn't working for you, here you can find download links to some of the older Quick Chat versions. I recommend that you use latest version if possible:

Comments

  • Michael Langham June 19, 2013 at 16:35:55

    Curious as to cause for, or speeding-up of, the lag time between submitting of chat message, and its appearance in the chat window.

    On our test installation, there is approx. a 20-30 second delay.

    Thanks in advance for your response.

    Michael

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  • Bryan Seitz June 18, 2013 at 00:03:51

    Marko,

    First off great plugin! I was wondering since the long polling eats up admin-ajax.php and CPU time, could you make a checkbox for ajax / non-ajax mode where real time updates are not available and would only show on reload ?

    TIA,

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  • The Ghanaian Times June 17, 2013 at 16:40:38

    can someone look at this link and help me out .. av install the quick chart and add it to my right widget buh nothing is showing .. http://www.newtimesgh.com

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  • Vinmoore June 12, 2013 at 22:13:32

    Please I want to create a page for my Quick chat… (to be called chat room) and the site is wordpress based… please, what is the shotcode to do this?

    Thanks

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    • Michael Langham June 19, 2013 at 16:37:47

      On our test site, we simply used the short-code found in the faq:

      [quick-chat height="400" room="default" userlist="1" userlist_position="left" smilies="1" send_button="0" loggedin_visible="1" guests_visible="1" avatars="1" counter="1"]

       

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  • BigTom June 12, 2013 at 14:14:01

    Hey,

    this is a great plugin.

    Thank you very much!

    But on my local testsite the admin can only see the chat.

    Nobody else.

    I have no other plugins install.

    So, what can I do?

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    • Marko June 12, 2013 at 17:25:49

      Hi,
      just open your browser Javascript console and read the error message :)

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  • greg June 12, 2013 at 01:57:59

    I love the plugin! Is there any way of changing the default notification sound?

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    • Marko June 12, 2013 at 17:28:57

      Sure. You just replace “message-sound.mp3″, “message-sound.ogg” and “message-sound.wav” from your “wp-content/plugins/quick-chat/sounds” directory with your own message notification sound files. Three sound file types are necessary because not all HTML5 audio tag enabled browsers support all audio file formats.

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  • Selwyn June 11, 2013 at 11:39:40

    Thanks for an excellent plugin Marko! Is it possible to create a one-on-one chat session between two people, while permitting members and guests to view that chat, but prevent them from taking part?

    Thanks in advance.

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    • Marko June 12, 2013 at 17:30:05

      If by possible you mean without modifying code, then unfortunately no.

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      • Selwyn June 18, 2013 at 02:22:44

        I’m prepared to modify the code. Is there a code tweak you could suggest to create a one-on-one chat session between two people, while permitting members and guests to view that chat, but prevent them from taking part?

        Thanks again Marko.

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  • healingmyselfwithin June 8, 2013 at 05:18:09

    I downlaoded quick chat however I can not plug it in on my website

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  • Selwyn June 7, 2013 at 13:37:28

    Hi, is it possible to have a one on one chat session between two people, while members and guests can view but not be included in the chat? Like a private chat but open to others WTO view only?

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  • Momijisu June 5, 2013 at 19:23:54

    Any of the developers or anyone who might know why my quickchat won’t actually show on the sidebar? http://thegeekshow.co.uk/

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    • Marko June 7, 2013 at 07:06:01

      Hello,
      If you look at your site’s browser console you will see a million of Javascript errors that must be addressed first before Quick Chat starts working on your site.

      Regards!

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  • Mindy June 2, 2013 at 05:32:53

    Thanks for the plugin. It’s working well. Is there a way of having customised smileys? We have added a lot of smilies using the Custom Smilies plugin and I wonder if it’s possible for these smilies to be used with the plugin? Thank you very much.

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  • neethan May 31, 2013 at 13:12:47

    i have installed it , its working fine :) loving it :)  just now i have to figure out the the themes

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  • Shrini May 29, 2013 at 09:31:39

    Hey.. It is a cool plugin.. I was searching for such a free chat system from long time and got it here..

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  • user May 27, 2013 at 12:37:33

    How do you put that dots line between user list and chat?

     

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    • Marko May 27, 2013 at 17:31:14

      Hi,
      just place following inside /wp-content/themes/your_theme/quick-chat.css:

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      div.quick-chat-users-container-left,
div.quick-chat-history-container {
    padding: 5px;
    border-width: 1px;
    border-style: dashed;
    border-color: #CCCCCC;
 
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    border-radius: 3px;
}
 
input.quick-chat-send-button {
    padding: 3px;
}
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      • user May 27, 2013 at 17:57:45

        i have quick-chat.css only in plugin folder

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        • user May 27, 2013 at 18:05:55

          it work….have to change folder permissions

          tnx

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  • chat May 23, 2013 at 05:18:02

    nice plugin ,

    ive been looking  help all over .
    can any one help
    i want to make new messages appear on top not bottom , and i want input feild on top as well

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  • ghasan May 13, 2013 at 06:16:57

    nice plugin ,

     

    ive been looking  help all over .

    can any one help

    i want to make new messages appear on top not bottom , and i want input feild on top as well

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  • Izi Ningishzidda May 6, 2013 at 19:40:13

    i love this chat plugin, it loads fast. Flash seems so obsolete these days.

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  • dave May 6, 2013 at 19:25:59

    Hi How can I change the language on Quick Chat

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  • Hoang Duong May 6, 2013 at 13:12:01

    Hello Marko, thanks for your great plugin. It’s very nice and suitable for our requirement. But we are facing an issue when install it in our site, the input messages are showing slowly here http://www.soscampus.com/view-doc-vid-test/ (it takes about 8-10 sec to display and it seems that the update_messages ajax request is blocking and not able to be triggered when the new_message ajax request come). I’ve tried to deactivate all other plugins but cannot resolve it. Does it relate on session locking or something similar… Can you  help on this and let me know your opinion?

    Thank you so much!

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  • dave May 1, 2013 at 18:30:10

    Is there a way of removing ”

    You’re about to send private chat invitation to “guestname”. Are you sure?”

    So you can directly chat to the user?

     

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    • Marko May 3, 2013 at 08:05:24

      Yes there is, just modify javascript to behave that way. That is the only way :)

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  • Ernie May 1, 2013 at 14:33:46

    How do I change the notification sound?

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  • Peter Eichhorst May 1, 2013 at 03:07:42

    This plugin seems great. My issue is that I am trying to use this on a multisite install with domain mapping installed. It works fine for sites without domain mapping configured, but does not work for mapped domains. Any ideas?

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  • cernyprinc April 28, 2013 at 14:30:58

    because someone DELETE my post , i try  write  new

    I have some problem on my web – http://www.znamenilva.eu   – scroll down

    some guide  how to repair  ?

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  • Robert April 25, 2013 at 11:34:10

    Bonjour Marko,

    Thanks for “Quick Chat” it works fine. But…when i go to my “Kontakt” side where the chat is install, automaticaly appear my user name in the chat. I know that i can change this but i want that it never appear. Have you a solution?
    Merci! Robert

     

     

     

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