License
Quick Chat is released under GPLv2 license.
Quick Chat Demo
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 3.3
- 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 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:
- Quick Chat v1.84
- Quick Chat v2.01
- Quick Chat v2.09
- Quick Chat v2.20
- Quick Chat v2.30
- Quick Chat v2.31
- Quick Chat v2.32
- Quick Chat v2.33
- Quick Chat v2.40
- Quick Chat v2.41
- Quick Chat v3.00
- Quick Chat v3.11
- Quick Chat v3.20
- Quick Chat v3.41
- Quick Chat v4.01
- Quick Chat v4.12
1,458 thoughts on “Quick Chat”
Good plugin but slow. I will continue to test. world-life.info
I love the simplicity of it.
But of course, I was wondering about one option I can’t seem to find.
I’d like to make the chats go in the other direction, from bottom to top, instead of from top to bottom. Do you have a tip on how I might be able to do so?
Thanks very much for this wonderful software.
Cheers!
Hi Allan,
here what your are looking for:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-chat-messages-in-reverse-chronological-order-1#post-7514179
bye from Italy
Maurizio
Perfect for small sites the people know each other, or just want to chatter with each other on and off. It’s history is always there, and you can moderate it. easy to use! Simple in design, and removes the complexity of others chats designed for corporate uses.
I have installed Quick Chat and used shortcode on a page for Chat. How do we moderate the chat room, I don’t see that is done. In settings there are user options for WordPress roles to moderate but I don’t admin as one of the roles.
Thanks,
Brad
Not sure why this is called “Quick Chat”. It slows my website down to a crawl with only one person logged in. Messages take 15 seconds to become visible. Maybe it’s the theme I use or something, not sure. I’m using it in the sidebar from the widget.
I’m trying to add in Quick Chat a “user is typing” function, but i’m not a professional and it would be greatful if someone could help to integrate this function to Quick Chat.
How it should work:
when my chat partner (user1) starts typing I see in my chat box: “user1 is typing”
when I (user2) am typing he sees in his chat box: “user2 is typing”.
The following code should be work, but i dont know how to integrate:
var timer = 0;
function reduceTimer(){
timer = timer - 1;
isTyping(true);
}
function isTyping(val){
if(val == 'true'){
document.getElementById('typing_on').innerHTML = "User is typing...";
}else{
if(timer <= 0){
document.getElementById('typing_on').innerHTML = "No one is typing -blank space.";
}else{
setTimeout("reduceTimer();",500);
}
}
}
No one is typing - blank speace.
Could someone help me? That would be a great function for Quick Chat.
Hi can someone help me. I want to know how i can change the background color from the standard white to a custom color within a page. or if anyone can help me with css coding to do it.
Hi Johann,
you have to change this CSS property adding the background
div.quick-chat-container {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
background: red; /*color you need */
}
bye from Italy
Maurizio
Telsa you can change that in the settings on how quick the chat goes but there must be a pause or else you will be so bogged down you cant send messages. I have used other plugins that do that and it is a pain!
Hi Marko
Great plugin.
Is it possible to have some form of push notification or rss feed or some way for people in the chat get notified on a mobile device that there is a new message without having to be within the website.
Thanks
Keep up the good work.
How I can hide flag of one user?
Hello,
I want to override function of quick_chat.php In my theme functions.php
file … please tell me how to do that
I WANT THIS FUNCTION IN MY functions.php FILE
add_action( ‘wp_ajax_quick-chat-ajax-update-messages’, array($this, ‘update_messages_ajax_handler’));
I want to customize function “update_messages_ajax_handler”
I am looking for chat for subscribing members for perhaps 500 chatters. I’ve read that just a few chatters will slow down the computer. This WordPress plug-in doesn’t sound like it will work or me or am I missing something? Also is there a way to exclude visitors who haven’t paid a subscription fee?