Quick Chat

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
  • 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 3.3
  • Tested up to: WordPress 3.6
  • Current version: Quick Chat 4.13

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 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:

DOWNLOAD Quick Chat 4.13 from WordPress.org

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:

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Download:

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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:

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1,481 thoughts on “Quick Chat”

    1. Anna

      Dave July 1, 2012 at 10:10:01 :

      “I only see the online users but I cannot see the box where the messages appears. What could be the problem? Thanks!”

      We have the same problem on http://visc.me
      (to see the chat you have to be logged in)

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  3. stany

    Hi, nice plugin, is possible to put the date, just on the same line as the name, in order to have 2lines per message instead of 3 ?

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  5. Denis

    Hi Marko and all happy people, it’s about SEND BUTTON
    look what i found, so when i installed Quick Chat on clean WP without other plugin and put in shot code zero to smile option, it’s became braking Send button, so i decided to hide smiles with CSS: .quick-chat-smilies-container {display: none;}

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    1. Marko Author

      Hello, what about send button? Is it working here on demo chat? If not what browser are you using? If yes you should debug your site and see what gets in the way.

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    2. Vadim

      For the work  SEND BUTTON

      1. enable smilies  (smilies=\”1\”)

      2. in styles

      .quick-chat-smilies-container{
      display:none;
      }

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  6. Chana

    I remember seeing someone asked about how to put guest name, date and time to be placed all in one same line. Can’t seem to find that message. Could you help me out how this could be done? I wanted to save height space by putting those info all in the same line. Thanks in advance, Marko.

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi, yes this can be done but it requires modifying javascript code that renders interface as well as adjust css for this. But you won’t save a lot because avatar defines message height, only if you hide avatars?

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      1. Chana

        Yes, I hid the avatars. It saved quite a lot of space, but only if I could only put the timestamp onto the same line as the guest name, it will definitely be great. 🙂 I guess I’ll have to use this version until your next version comes out. :))) Thanks for replying Marko. I love this chat system.

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  7. stany

    Hi,
    I know, it so hard to give an answer to all, (sorry for my poor english, i’m french)

    Is there a solution to have name and date on the same line in your beautiful plugin quick chat !

    And another aside request for future improve, do you plan to make a popup version ?

    Thanks for your work ! a very impressive plugin !

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    1. Marko Author

      Hello,
      I’ve just replied to Chana about having date and name on the same line. About popup version, this would be possible but it would bring some technical issues to the table. I might jump into it one day.

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  8. Ron

    Hi Marko,
    What server specifications will I need to look at from my host for this plugin to work well if there are hundereds/thousands of people chatting at the same time in many various rooms? My shared server is slow but I haven’t launched yet so I’m thinking of upgrading to vps or dedicated but your help would let me know what specs I should look at.

    Thanks for your help. This is a great plugin!!!!

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi,
      to be honest I wouldn’t place hundred/thousands of people chatting using Quick Chat or any other similar solution on the same server because this is technically almost impossible. For this you need dedicated server with dedicated chat server software like XMPP and BOSH web frontend to this server.

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    1. Marko Author

      Hello, once you switch WordPress to your language like it’s described here Quick Chat will follow this change (if there is translation file for your language inside quick-chat/languages directory and if this file is complete). If you want to help translating Quick Chat into your language you can take a look here.

      Regards

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  10. Alvaro

    Hey! I just wanted to know how can the guest users change their avatars? And what do I do if I want someone to “register” (entering their email) before chatting? Please answer me to my email address, thanks.

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    1. Marko Author

      Guest users cant change avatars. Quick Chat supports what WordPress supports by default and that is avatars for logged in users.

      p.s. I can’t reply to email because here you and other users have benefit from my answer.

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  11. Fredi

    Hi Marko,

    ive got a problem with the ajax-admin php… it load and load and load…

    “wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 200 OK 22.44s
    jquery…r=3.4.1 (Zeile 4)
    POST wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 200 OK 22.43s

    jquery…r=3.4.1 (Zeile 4)
    POST wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 200 OK 699ms

    jquery…r=3.4.1 (Zeile 4)
    POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 200 OK 22.45s

    jquery…r=3.4.1 (Zeile 4)
    POST http:e/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 200 O 745ms”

    __________________________________________________

    after refreshing the site, ive got an error message : “blabla ajax-wp” without any details.

    i use: WP 3.4.1

    hope you can help me

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  12. Aussiecriminals

    Hi Marko, my readers are loving this chat thing. I am in Australia in Vic, it is about 3pm. How do I change to our time. We are usually +10 hours but that is not working.Do i put in the plus sign or just the 10?

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  13. Aussiecriminals

    Hi I activated this plugin today, and my host has temp closed my site. They sent me this info? I have no idea what they are talking about, can you help please.

    Hello,

    The restriction on your account is due to the “/home/******/public_html/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php” file. Were you doing anything specifically within your admin panel when the block occurred or does this chat operate within the wp-admin of your site for users?

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  14. steve

    For some reason i cant seem to get this chat to work.The send button does not appear nor does the enter button work.I have installed every version and still no luck.Please help me out thank you

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      1. Marko Author

        Hello,
        you should debug by opening your browser console and look at error messages then you should know what’s this problem about.

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  15. pradip

    the plugin is working perfectly except for the login users.
    When login as an administrator, i can see the chat screen but when login as a user – subscriber . i cannot see the chat screenn …. any reason … will be great if you can help me out …

    Many thanks in advance!

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    1. Marko Author

      I’ve tested subscriber user as “Mirna” subscriber and as you can see it works fine. You have local issue. Open your browser console and debug.

      Regards

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      1. Pradip

        Forgot to mention you that … m using quick chat with wp mingle(wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle/) plugin. When i disable , mingle ..quick chat works perfectly !

        Is it bcoz of the jquery loading problem ?

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  16. Paul

    I have a basic problem. I’ve installed the plugin, turned it on, but can’t see any option how to add it to my pages or posts.

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  17. Amy

    Hi i found an error… Using any kind of remove_menu_page function will break it for those users whos visibility is affected by the change. IE below – anyone who cannot create users cannot see quick chat. An update to that would be great!

    function delete_menu_items() {
    if ( !current_user_can( ‘create_users’ )) {
    remove_menu_page(‘index.php’); // Tools
    remove_menu_page(‘profile.php’); // Settings
    }
    }

    add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘delete_menu_items’ );

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi Amy.
      Can you please elaborate a little? Are you talking about Quick Chat admin settings menu? If you are then this menu is added by WordPress Settings API function, register_setting() to be precise, and if you require removing it you should use Settings API function unregister_setting() to do so.

      Regards

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    1. Marko Author

      Half an hour? Yes but only by changing source code. Where it says:

      $input['manual_gmt_offset'] = floor($input['manual_gmt_offset']);

      in quick-chat.php you can place something like following:

      $input['manual_gmt_offset'] = $input['manual_gmt_offset'];

      Then options will accept float numbers like 0.5 or 2.5.

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  19. Ron

    Hi Marko,

    I have 6 related questions, I hope it’s not too much to ask.

    1. Using a vps host, what would be the most number of users I could safely have chatting at one time without issue?
    2. Could you incorporate a shortcode to limit number of users which would be definable? (so not to cause problems)
    3. If this is possible, could this work with multiple rooms where the total is taken from all rooms combined?
    4. Anything I can do to help increase this number?
    5. What would happen if rooms were overloaded?
    6. Is there a way to view how many chatters are in each room from a listing of rooms rather than having to go in each room to see who’s there?

    Thanks

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi.

      1. It’s hard to tell, my guess 50-200 but it could be more or much less on abusy server.
      2. Yes I could, great idea but it would be better to limit total number of users for all chat rooms with admin option instead of shortcode attribute.
      3. See 2.
      4. You can increase user and message refresh intervals in admin options. I keep user refresh interval o 45 seconds and message refresh interval on 3 seconds but you could do more if you expect many visitors.
      5. Depending on how you configure it your mysql server would lockup, refuse new queries or restart.
      6. You can use phpmyadmin to take a look at quick_chat_users table inside your wordpress database, all users are there.

      Good luck!

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  20. Rodney Wolford

    Hi Marko

    We have just added your Quick Chat to a trainer’s exchange we are building. It is great. We would like to make a donation, but we do not use PayPal. Period. What alternatives can you offer? Would like to use AMEX, but could send a check snail mail. Let me know.

    Rod

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi Rodney. Unfortunately for people located in Croatia (like me) letting PayPal steal our money is currently the only way to get payed securely. Thank you for your will to donate it means much to open source developers like me. I hope something better than PayPal turns up.

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  21. Vaygah

    Wonderful plug in!  Works great, once I figured out a way to make the shortcode appear within the contraints that I want.  I do have a HUGE request that I think would do this plug in a lot of good though.  If you can add support for youtube videos to play within the chat I think that would work out very well for many people!  Looking forward to seeing it 🙂

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  22. Ron

    Hi Marko,

    Thanks for the reply.  Would that be incorporated in a future update and would that hold the same number for multi-site?

    “2. Could you incorporate a shortcode to limit number of users which would be definable? (so not to cause problems)

    2. Yes I could, great idea but it would be better to limit total number of users for all chat rooms with admin option instead of shortcode attribute.”

    Thanks,

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  23. EnvyTH

    Hello Marko,

    Thanks for this plugin! it is great! ^^ But a have a little problem =/ Sometimes… it don’t “open” in the sidebar (widgets)… so the site making loading forever…. and want upadate (f5) the page even function… You have any ideia for why it happen?

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi, yes. Currently Quick Chat loads with on window load javascript event to work around some Chrome browser bugs. Since this event happens only when all is loaded on page if some other code like google ads, facebook code etc. stalls Quick Chat will wait for it indefinitely. In future I’ll make QC start on javascript ready because I believe Chrome fixed the bugs at hand.

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      1. EnvyTH

        Thanks for your answer!

        But, it happen not only in Chrome… I tested it in Firefox and Internet Explorer… and is the same problem (In the IE the problem happened all the time)… so, I installed the old version to Quick Chat (3.41) … in the new, its more visible this problem.

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        1. Marko Author

          I wasn’t saying it happens only in Chrome, just that Quick Chat is loading after all other code loads due to code I’ve built in to work around Chrome bug. Some other code fails to load and this makes Quick Chat wait forever. This is my guess, it might be completely different issue. You should check your browser console when it doesn’t load (Tools->Web Developer->Web Console in Firefox).

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  24. Emmanuel

    Hello,
    Great Great Plug in.

    I just hava some questions.

    1.How do I remove the time and date bellow the names? and
    2. How do i put the chat messages beside the name and not under them..

    I look forward to your reply

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    1. Marko Author

      Currently the only way to do this is to open Javascript and CSS code (Quick Chat is open source) and to change it into what you need. You can also hire someone (for example me 🙂 ) to do it if you do not have time or knowledge.

      Regards,
      Marko

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi. What happens on your site when logged in user tries to chat? Can you reproduce this by registering and logging in on here at TechyTalk.info?

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  26. jack

    Hi,
    Quick chat is working fine, however I think its loading version 2.1 of swfobject in a script and this is upsetting another plugin which is trying to use version 2.2
    The version of quick chat I am running is 4.01
    WP version is 3.4.1

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi Jack. Quick Chat isn’t using swfobject. It uses only jQuery and HTML 5 where it needs something more advanced (like using HTML 5 audio tag for sound).

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    1. Marko Author

      No you can’t (embed image, it would end up as link). SSL should pose no problem, if you find any just report and we’ll work it out.

      Regards,
      Marko

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  29. Alvaro

    Hi!

    I can’t see the “Send” button on my webpage chat, where can I enable that feature? I already updated to the 4.10 version but I still can’t see it neither the option for enabling it.

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  30. Alvaro

    I know that guest users can’t change their avatars, but, can you please include a feature to auto-generate the shown avatars for guest users so it doesn’t shows always the same avatar? Or include various avatars so Quick Chat uses it at random.

    Also, could you include an option so people has to enter their email address before chatting? I mean, so no register in the page is needed, but you need to do that little registration to chat. And, with that, you could also take the gravatar that the email has (if it has one) and include it on the chat instead of showing the guest one.

    At last, could you include a feature that turns the names in the user list and in the chat messages into different colors? So it would be more reconigzable bcause there would be a color for every user connected at that moment. No matter if it is registered guest, or administrator. Every connected user as a different color on their name (chosen at random, or maybe you coul put a “Choose color” box besides the name). To avoid confusions between guests, registered and administrators, you could put an icon besides the user on the user list and chat message that specifies those users (like a crown for the administrator, and other icon for registered users).

    Thanks! Sorry if you didn’t understand, I can explain you better.

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi Alvaro. Quick Chat follows avatar configuration you’ve configured on you WordPress blog. If you go to Admin Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion Settings -> Avatars section you can configure this behavior. Avatar setup that has “Generated” in its name will auto generate avatars for guest users or users whose email has no gravatar attached.

      About including email input box I’ve designed the way I did to encourage guests to register to your site, that’s what should be every site/blog owners goal because then user is more likely to return.

      The idea with colors and icons is interesting and I might do something similar in the future.

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      1. Alvaro

        Oh well, thank you! I was telling you that of the gravatars because in the demo chat on this page only appear one gravatar (this one: Quick Chat Avatar), with every user, no matter if they are different guest users, only appear one, it doesn’t auto generates, so I had that confusion. But I haven’t checked if that happens on my website.

        Well, I supposed that, to register to the website. But could you include an option so people doesn’t have to register the site, but only entering email and name to chat? Maybe you should need to add a database on the chat options for making compatible  the custom gravatar and other preferences like the nickname.

        And I’ll be waiting for the development of that idea!

        Thank you for your answer! BTW, thanks also for your answer in my Send button question!

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      2. sanjeev

        thanks marko…….. i’m using your plugin my site…… it is very usefull. but you can implement different colors and icons for guest users. it will be best achievement for this plugin…. i’m also a developer…..can work together….if you like.

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        1. Marko Author

          Hello Sanjev,
          colors can be done relatively easily, I just slap colorpicker onto interface and we’re good to go. I wouldn’t use icons because we need someone to provide free icons and any icons we find might look great or ugly depending on user theme. That’s why I haven’t used any icons except emoticons for Quick Chat.

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            1. Marko Author

              Again, I can’t include icons I don’t have. Current chat emotions were found under open source license terms. If I were to find appropriate light ant cute icons for this I would include them too. If you find any just post here and I’ll take a look.

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  32. EnvyTH

    Hi Mark0!

    So I updated the Quick Chat for the version 4.10.. but now, they don’t send any messange and don’t show who is online (but its enable). You know what is it? I have already reinstalled the plugin.

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi you should enable debug mode from Quick Chat admin options and I’ll take a look to check for possible regressions. I’ll also place old 4.01 version in the “old versions” section here on this page.

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        1. Marko Author

          Enabling the debug mode shouldn’t solve the problem, it should only make it easier for me to detect what’s wrong. But great if 3.41 works for you 😉

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  35. The Atheist Geek

    I have been trying Quick Chat for a few days, but it seems waaaay too slow on my server. Yet the reaction time from hitting enter key to seeing a post can range from 3 secs to 35 secs! Any thoughts on this? I confirmed that it isn’t just happening on my end. Others have tried, including some from other countries.

    Thanks.

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    1. Marko Author

      Hello.
      Unfortunately there are many things that could go wrong to make Quick Chat behave this way and because of that I can’t even guess without looking at server configuration my self. You can’t go wrong with looking at server load when it happens that messages are very slow.

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  36. Lo

    Hi. I’m looking for a web chat for my school homepage where parents and teachers can login as guests without registring and have private chatrooms to discuss problems of the pupils. Something like chatzy.com ‘s QuickChat. But, as we have many foreing speakers it should have a translation feature. Main features:
    – private 1:1 or multiple guest-to-guest chat
    – guest can crate email invitation for 2nd guest
    – translation like in google for multiple langauges.
    Does your solution offer this? Or do you know a solution for me? Thanks Lo

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi Lo,
      the answers are no and no. If you have sufficiently capable server to run this application I can be hired to add features you need to Quick Chat. If you do find other web chat that does advanced features you need it most definitely won’t be free.

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      1. Lo

        Thanks for your quick reply. For schools money is always tight. I’ll probably have to wait until the market shows up with a ready made solution… Thanks anyway. Lo

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  37. Alvaro

    In the CSS file, the Send button is written as “width=100% and height=100%, which makes the Send button bigger as it should be and occupying a big space as height is 100%.
    If you could rewrite that to a better value like 35px, it would be great.

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  38. Alex

    Hi, Thanks for a great plugin, but have some question.

    I saw a feature:

    Supports unlimited number of separate chat rooms

    But how i can create it? i cant find it.

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    1. Marko Author

      Hello. I will copy/paste from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-chat/faq/

      …

      room – You can give room attribute to the [quick-chat] shortcode. So if you want your embedded chat to show chat room identified by word “musictalk” you will display this chat like this: [quick-chat room="musictalk"]. Every chat (sidebar or in-post) with “musictalk” room attribute will show this same content. If you omit room shortcode attribute, default behavior is to show predefined chat room identified by the “default” word.

      …

      This is how you create multiple chat rooms. You can even have multiple chat rooms on the same page by by placing multiple [quick-chat] shortcodes inside same post (or using multiple sidebar widgets). For example:


      [quick-chat room="first"]
      [quick-chat room="second"]
      [quick-chat room="third"]

      If you place it all inside the same post you have multiple separate chat rooms on the same page.

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      1. Alex

        I see and i see three rooms containers on one page.

        But i mean  that is there any opportunity for users to create their own rooms and also show rooms list for example as users list. I click it and see the room. Not all rooms on one page.

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  40. john

    hello. The plugin is great. thanks. how could i increase the width of it on my page. coz i placed it on a page and my page is way wider than the chat room.

     

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  41. Nick

    Hi. I am experiencing an issue with Quick Chat plugin not displaying. It worked great a month ago, but now my chat page just displays “LOADING” and the chat feature never loads. jQuery is all good and there is no interference from another plugin. How can this be resolved? Thanks

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    1. Marko Author

      Hello,
      this basically means that Quick Chat encountered Javascript error that stopped it from working. Just open your browser console, reload page and you’ll get some error messages.

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  42. Yisrael

    Hey Marko – What a great service you have provided to the WP community. We have been investigating chat solutions for clients lately who seem to be wanting them on their sites. Since we cater to non-profits and small business we are always looking for reasonable solutions for them. Glad to find you – now what we need to know is what does it really take to run QuickChat in say a church site or an event site where they may do events and have certain times when 100 people might be online at once.

    What kind of hosting plan would you really recommend? I would guess that most times there shouldn’t be that many. But suppose if its 2 mos out from an event and 1000 people decide to log on to try and coordinate rides across the country to the event – what might happen?

    Again – great plugin – look forward to hearing from you.

    – Yisrael

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi Yisrael,
      I’m glad you find Quick Chat useful. Chat applications are tricky because they require a lot of server CPU and RAM if you place a lot of users at the same time. I would use some high quality VPS hosting package, increase message and users update intervals in admin settings and if possible try not to host chat in sidebar (place it on separate page). Never the less I can’t guaranty any self hosted long polling technology chat will tolerate 100 concurrent chatters. For this you should really use XMPP server based web chat capable of supporting a few thousand concurrent users. What I know for sure is that your server needs 10-15MB of RAM per visitor, 100 visitors chatting is 1-1.5 GB of RAM just for chat and I wouldn’t do that on my server.

      Regards,
      Marko

      p.s. I can be hired to implement XMPP based web chat features on your site but that’s very advanced and would require a lot of my effort and does have its costs.

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  43. Brad Harrington

    Nice plugin. I like that it will allow me a fair amount of control so that I can display it how I want and execute it how I want. So many chat rooms seem to preset everything for you and force you to use it their way.

    One question I have, is there a built in way to have it use your First Name and Last Name, rather than your username?

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        1. Marko Author

          For now yes,
          if I remember this when I start working on the next version I’ll add filter so this could be changed using plugin. This way this would not need updating each version.

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  44. Spider

    Nice plugin

    one question I want to block access visitor on the chat. I don’t want to visitors can look the chat and export comments.

    It’s possible or not ? If it’s not possible can you add this for the next version ? and add ” who can see the chat ” for a private chat just for the members

    Soz my english is bad 😉

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  45. Mario

    why in the admin side i can not see the chat session from the frontside, how can i moderate or control the chat from the admin and be able to see everything they chat

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  46. Brad Harrington

    Got another simple question that may not have a simple answer.

    Is there a way to have the sound cue you, even if you are NOT connected to the actual page that the chat room exists?

    I would like to have the sound cue me where ever I am on the website.

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    1. Marko Author

      Unfortunately there is no way to do this. This is because chat code is invoked only on pages where there is a chat room and without it there is no way to detect are you online or not. Otherwise chat would waste your server CPU cycles on pages without chat room.

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  47. oatzeal

    Hi marko, i know u ve done a great work.. But i ve not been able to enjoy it cos of 1 or 2 problems i can’t detect til now..

    I installed quick-chat plugin,
    I activated it,
    I saw the admin settings for the quick-chat,
    But i ve been trying to place it in a page& post, by placing [quick-chat] but nothing is showing up..

    hope not that i ve followed wrong procedure, or may be i ve skipped a process or may be i ve something more to do.. I ll put it now in a debug mode for you to check it out, am using wordpress3.4.1 twenty eleven theme.. Thanks in anticipation,,,

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi,
      sorry but unfortunately I do not have time to personally debug sites of all users. Please read FAQ where I wrote about debugging basics. You can also take a look at services I provide.

      Regards,
      Marko

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  49. oatzeal

    Thanks for you,, but this is my new observation..
    I moved it to widget, it worked, but i don’t want it on widget,, so wen i placed it in page and post, it showed same thing i placed.. And not the chat page.. What could have been wrong?

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    1. Marko Author

      That’s really weird but it isn’t easy to debug. On fresh WP install Quick Chat shortcode does work because thats what I test regularly. It must have been caused by some plugin or even your theme. To test this you can try to disable plugins one by one until you find the problem. Then report here and I’ll see if it can be fixed.

      Regards

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    1. Marko Author

      Hi,
      you can use CSS. For example place following at the bottom of your theme or css/quick-chat.css file:

      div.quick-chat-users-container{display:none;}
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