This has been months in development, and we hope covers the vast majority of your live chat needs... without the need of a single piece of javascript or third party code (woot!)
It provides in post, in page (via WYSIWYG :) chat and bottom corner (for chatting with visitors, making sales, building community) live chat.
And of course it's massively customizable.
BuddyPress and Multisite ready.
And awaiting your feedback and extra feature requests :)
This has been months in development, and we hope covers the vast majority of your live chat needs... without the need of a single piece of javascript or third party code (woot!)
It provides in post, in page (via WYSIWYG :) chat and bottom corner (for chatting with visitors, making sales, building community) live chat.
And of course it's massively customizable.
BuddyPress and Multisite ready.
And awaiting your feedback and extra feature requests :)
Just one big issue I have with this with regard to the bottom corner chat box... This interferes with the Wibiya bar we are using... neither the Wibiya Bar, nor the bottom corner chat gives us the option to move either off to the side or position it above or below the other... end result is that you can't click on the bottom-corner chat to open it...
Another question... does the chat show the number of users that are currently using it anywhere or is there a way to show if somebody is "on"?
What kind of server resources does this use? Just wondering how this will tax a server......
Other than that... it works... it's clean and it looks great!
There is a problem in firefox where the top edge of the chat window is cut off. Setting the window height to a lower dimension won't fix the problem as it will now only cut off the bottom.
I attached images..
Also I get frequent error
"Error establishing a database connection"
while saving dimension changes
I'm seeing similar issues in Firefox (see attached image), as well as other issues:
- Scrollbar appears in FF for the entire chat window. I know there will be a scrollbar for the chat area if there is a certain amount of content.
- Chat window is broken. This is a z-index issue that I can fix in CSS, but you might want to tweak the plugin's CSS so individual users don't have to tweak their CSS.
I also have two questions:
- How can I turn off authentication altogether? I want potential clients to be able to chat without having to go through any hassles, but it looks as if "current user" is always on.
- How do I chat with site visitors? Do chats show up in my superuser Dashboard?
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- Chat window is broken. This is a z-index issue that I can fix in CSS, but you might want to tweak the plugin's CSS so individual users don't have to tweak their CSS.
This must be an artifact from abnormal z-index on items in your specific theme.
How can I turn off authentication altogether? I want potential clients to be able to chat without having to go through any hassles, but it looks as if "current user" is always on.
This is an option on the settings page.
How do I chat with site visitors? Do chats show up in my superuser Dashboard?
Through the same interface as everyone else.
Note that the frontpage chat is a bonus. The primary function of this plugin is to create and insert chats in posts or pages.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/c07/h04/mnt/108250/domains/activationuniversity.com/html/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
I am logged in through one twitter account in Firefox, another in Safari and chatting back and forth to myself! Awesome.
One thing I noticed though, not sure if there is a fix. I was logged into twitter already in Firefox and that window recognized me as logged in but showed the default gravatar. In Safari, I went the site first to test the auth process. All went smoothly and my Twitter icon even popped up. Very cool. That made me realize it was missing from the first one.
Also noticing that after I had logged out of twitter, I was still authenticated with the chat window, even after refreshing several times and leaving the site and coming back.
Using firefox 3.6.10 and Safari 5. Default multisite install with TwentyTen and no other plugins.
The first one (firefox) is because I was logged in as site admin, so it ignored the Twitter I guess. The icon showing is because I had no gravatar yet for the admin user in this testing site.
So I logged out of the site. It made me authorize with twitter. All good. But still remain logged in to the chat after logging out with Twitter.
Would also be cool for twitter users if it said "from @username" with a link to the twitter profile. :)
Hmm, so is the frontpage chat only a public group chat, or is there any way to have a one-on-one chat? In the corner chat on most sites, potential clients can initiate a chat with you that's one-on-one. That's what we need.
@scaseye, all the issues you have sounds like an old browser issue. Could I please know what web browser you are using? In the mean time I'll try to reproduce the issues.
Multi Site Feature Request: Super Admin Option
Nice idea, we'll look into adding it in the next version. However you might have to authorize each domain on Twitter and Facebook.
@martythornley
But still remain logged in to the chat after logging out with Twitter.
Interesting bug, will get it sorted in the next release. Probably has to do with authenticating via Twitter while logged in.
Would also be cool for twitter users if it said "from @username" with a link to the twitter profile. :)
Nice feature, we'll look into adding it in the next version.
@demetriusb, I believe you are running PHP4. We will get it fixed in the next release, sorry for the inconvenience caused.
I've tested it out and really am excited about the chat plugin. I haven't found a way to delete the previous chats. Everytime I open the page, reload the browser or try a different brower, the previous chats are there? Is there a way to clean the history?
How and where do you capture development suggestions for plugins. I have one (or maybe more) for this plugin but I imagine they may have already been suggested?
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@AltisonaMedia welcome to the board! Just dump your suggestions here (in the plug in announcement thread) and the devs are pretty good in picking them up and placing them on their tracker.
@camaran.thomas, nope it's not an XMPP client unfortunately.
@dpayne2,
Quick thought for future add: it would be great to be able to have a restriction option on chat through the Membership plugin.
Nice feature, we'll see adding it in an up coming version.
@wkriesel, you should see an option to clear the chat by clicking "Clear" button bellow the textarea if you are logged in as an Editor or better. Normal users cannot clear the chat, if that's what you are looking for
Having fun testing this out... a couple of comments:
For some reason when I create the chat function in a post or page, I'm the only one that can see it. If another users goes to the same page, all they see is any html that I've included in the page other than the chat box? Any ideas?
Secondly, for the corner chat box, if I try to resize the entire browser window, the chat window rapidly becomes distorted essentially rendering it unusuble in most cases.
One other thing, I echo the desire to have this work across an entire blog network. I also have multiple blogs going but they are all harbored under one large umbrella. It would be great if users could use the chat across the entire domain.
Oh, I guess I have one other idea... how about making an option exclusive for groups? In other words, the corner chat box could have a drop down menu and the user could select which groups they would like the chat function to work for. For private groups, this option would only be available for members who could access that particular group.
For some reason when I create the chat function in a post or page, I'm the only one that can see it. If another users goes to the same page, all they see is any html that I've included in the page other than the chat box? Any ideas?
That's interesting, can you please give us a link to the post you see the issue in.
Secondly, for the corner chat box, if I try to resize the entire browser window, the chat window rapidly becomes distorted essentially rendering it unusuble in most cases.
Could we please know the size of the browser you are having issues with? We try to resize the chat window to fit the browser window when the browser window is resized.
Regarding these issues in general, it was much easier for me to put together a little Jing movie to show you rather than try to explain everything in text. Here's a link to the little screen capture movie I created to highlight everything: http://screencast.com/t/YjUzYjQy
Thanks for looking at those issues with the corner chat function!
As far as the in post chat, you nailed it, thanks so much! As soon as I enabled the shortcode visibility it worked perfectly. I then tested to see if I could restrict it by using that particular shortcode in the membership functions and it worked beautifully. Thanks a ton!
I'll look forward to the fixes on the corner chat issues. By the way, will you announce when this has been updated?
Also, is there any chance we'll have an add on function in the future where it will be possible to see who else is online?... or even the ability to restrict chat to certain groups/friends/etc.?
As far as the in post chat, you nailed it, thanks so much! As soon as I enabled the shortcode visibility it worked perfectly. I then tested to see if I could restrict it by using that particular shortcode in the membership functions and it worked beautifully. Thanks a ton!
Always here to help :)
By the way, will you announce when this has been updated?
Fixed version will be uploaded here first for you and anyone else to test, once it's released it would be announced.
Also, is there any chance we'll have an add on function in the future where it will be possible to see who else is online?... or even the ability to restrict chat to certain groups/friends/etc.?
When I tried to activate the chat plugin I got this:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_notificiations_get_id_plugin() (previously declared in /home/trock/public_html/knightsofniche.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php:47) in /home/trock/public_html/knightsofniche.com/wp-content/plugins/1285773528907/update-notifications.php on line 76
Hi. I'm brand new at WPMUDEV, so I'm not sure this is the right place for me to be asking this, but it's at least in the ballpark. :-)
I'm wondering what the chat plugin allows. I'd like to create multiple chatrooms available to registered users, so that, for example, all users interested in topic A can be in the Topic A Chat Room, all users interested in topic B can be in the Topic B Chat Room, etc.
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Hiya Lee,
First off, welcome to WPMU DEV! :D
What you're wanting to do is definitely possible with the power of our Chat plugin combined with the Membership plugin.
The chat plugin allows you to create individual chats on separate pages. You'd just need to create separate subscription types with membership so that each type would only have access to their live chat page.
Finally, it's always best if you have a new question to start a new thread. When they get long as this one has it's easy for us to over-look a new question.
Just go to the forums page and choose a specific topic (Plugin Support, Theme Support, etc) from the sidebar on the right. Once there, select "Add New" again at the top right and create your new post.
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@tniche,
That issue is caused by having two copies of the update-notifications plugin. As this plugin is in the middle of a fairly far-reaching overhaul, I'd just recommend removing it. It's not required for the chat plugin to work.
To remove this you'll want to access your site via FTP (or cPanel if you don't have FTP for some reason) and remove the following:
wp-content/plugins/1285773528907/update-notifications.php
(doing this will make the error you refer to go away)
And then if you want to completely remove it for now. Delete this:
wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php
After that you should be good to go. If you encounter any further issues, please let us know. As this thread is getting rather lengthy, I'd recommend starting a new thread as I recommended to Lee above.
I've tried getting chat to work on my wordpress blog then on another WP MU blog without success.
The txt files unzipped provided very little information.
Nothing under the Plugins TAB except authorization which I could not activate.
Also nothing under any other tab, at all related to Chat.
If anyone has the step by step instructions on setting up Chat and what I should find within my
Admin menus once installed.
I use a LInux for my server and I have complete access to cp, vi, mv, etc..
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Posted on 22nd September 2010 (1 week ago) # I'm getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/c07/h04/mnt/108250/domains/activationuniversity.com/html/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
Demetrius
---- I do not see a response to his post. I am receiving the same error. What is the solution?
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For Future Installers of this Plugin:
In response to my own post:
"I've tried getting chat to work on my wordpress blog then on another WP MU blog without success.
The txt files unzipped provided very little information.
Nothing under the Plugins TAB except authorization which I could not activate.
Also nothing under any other tab, at all related to Chat.
If anyone has the step by step instructions on setting up Chat and what I should find within my
Admin menus once installed."
I have performed the following that addresses the above. Here is what I've done.
1) cd wp-content/plugins
2) mkdir CHAT
3) cd CHAT
4) transfer WPME DEV's chat plugin zip file in the CHAT Directory
5) unzip the WPChat...zip file remove every file except the wordpress-chat-plugin-1.zip file
6) unzip the wordpress-chat-plugin-1.zip file
7) cd chat-1.0.0
8) mv chat /wp-content/plugins
9) Log onto your blog with Administrive priviledges, go to your plugins tab and activate the plugin (chat)
Now I just need to get past the:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/43/d300765498/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
error
@dpayne2, I have fixed the extra slash issue in the archive mentioned above. I'm still working on the chat window distorting, will post a new archive here once it's fixed.
I need to know if there is a solution for this message received when Activating Chat.
The message I receive when attempting to Activate is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/43/d300765498/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
I added the chat feature to the wp magazine theme,
I am not getting sounds for notifications and none of the settings are working
the use cant see their name or the dat, or hear sounds no matter what i change it to.
any ideas? Ive read through the posts and cant find anything related
I just tried to install the Chat plug in and received this error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_notificiations_get_id_plugin() (previously declared in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/1286213739374/update-notifications.php:47) in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/livechat/update-notifications.php on line 76
Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks for all the help.
I just tried to install the Chat plug in and received this error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_notificiations_get_id_plugin() (previously declared in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/1286213739374/update-notifications.php:47) in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/livechat/update-notifications.php on line 76
Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks for all the help.
This looks like it could be a conflict with another plugin. Try to deactivate all your plugins, then activate them one at a time with the chat plugin activated.
Can you be more specific? (e.g. an error message). I highly doubt it would have corrupted .htaccess file, I'm guessing you uploaded duplicate update-notifications.php
Just wondering if it could have been that I changed the file name that stuffed things up? Should you keep the zip file name exactly the same? I tend to changed file names otherwise I would not know what most of them are!
I saw a notice on the plugin page, that has since disappeared, that says (and remember I had changed the file NAME) that the plugin uploaded had to be deactivated as it was basically empty. Weird.
I am missing something here. First I want to respond to my earlier post on just getting chat "Activited." I had to edit my .htaccess file and add the following lines: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
Now, that I have it activated and I see the options to configure it under my "Settings" menu, now what?
I do not see how I would create a page that is for chatting, or the bottom bar, etc.
I do not find any real instructions for this plugin. Again, am I missing something?
Any pointers now I've made this leap forward, on getting chat operational would be greatly appreciated.
To configure the bottom corner chat, go into 'Settings' -> 'Chat' and then click on the 'Bottom corner chat' tab. There set the 'Show' to 'Enabled' and set the other settings appropriately. If you need help with the other settings please let us know.
To add in post/page chat, simply click on the chat icon (see attachment bellow) to add the chat shortcode and save the post.
That's very interesting, I think I will have to have a look to figure out why the chat button is not added to Add new post. If you don't mind can you please send the WordPress admin details via the contact form (http://premium.wpmudev.org/contact/), please mark it for my attention and include a link to the thread.
Looking forward to helping you and figuring out the issue.
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Hiya lars,
He'll need you to send through an admin login and password so he can take a look at your setup. As he stated above, simply submit through the contact form to his attention and provide login details and a link to this thread.
Webaddress, id and password along with a link to this thread and a brief description of what is/is not happening has been sent to http://premium.wpmudev.org/contact with Attn: mohanjith
"Coding magic" I did was to correct @lars2923's theme to have wp_footer() call (probably removed by mistake during the use of the theme). If you have a proper WordPress theme you need not do this. :)
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Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Sounds like the big one. Will post back.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi James,
Just one big issue I have with this with regard to the bottom corner chat box... This interferes with the Wibiya bar we are using... neither the Wibiya Bar, nor the bottom corner chat gives us the option to move either off to the side or position it above or below the other... end result is that you can't click on the bottom-corner chat to open it...
Another question... does the chat show the number of users that are currently using it anywhere or is there a way to show if somebody is "on"?
What kind of server resources does this use? Just wondering how this will tax a server......
Other than that... it works... it's clean and it looks great!
Cheers.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
There is a problem in firefox where the top edge of the chat window is cut off. Setting the window height to a lower dimension won't fix the problem as it will now only cut off the bottom.
I attached images..
Also I get frequent error
"Error establishing a database connection"
while saving dimension changes
Founder & CEO — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@pisanojm - Yeh, if you are using Wibya I would turn of fthe bottom corner chat.
Nice features, we'll look to build them into the next version.
Hardly any :) No worries there.
@drdave thanks for th bug reports, we'll fix them up in the next version.
Founder & CEO — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Re:
Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm thinking that if it's just you it might be related to your config so let's see what other people are saying.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
This looks amazing. Can't wait ti try it out!
Lifetime member! — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
mmm very nice and works :)
what about.... locales ?????
Keeper of the Dark Chocolate — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hmmm, interesting avatar and commenter there in that first picture. :)
Just to clarify, is there any moderation or booting features in this?
Lead Developer — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
You win the prize!
Not yet.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi,
I'm seeing similar issues in Firefox (see attached image), as well as other issues:
- Scrollbar appears in FF for the entire chat window. I know there will be a scrollbar for the chat area if there is a certain amount of content.
- Chat window is broken. This is a z-index issue that I can fix in CSS, but you might want to tweak the plugin's CSS so individual users don't have to tweak their CSS.
I also have two questions:
- How can I turn off authentication altogether? I want potential clients to be able to chat without having to go through any hassles, but it looks as if "current user" is always on.
- How do I chat with site visitors? Do chats show up in my superuser Dashboard?
Thanks.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Here is the screen grab mentioned above. Sorry.
Lead Developer — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
This must be an artifact from abnormal z-index on items in your specific theme.
This is an option on the settings page.
Through the same interface as everyone else.
Note that the frontpage chat is a bonus. The primary function of this plugin is to create and insert chats in posts or pages.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I'm getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/c07/h04/mnt/108250/domains/activationuniversity.com/html/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
Demetrius
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Wow!
I am logged in through one twitter account in Firefox, another in Safari and chatting back and forth to myself! Awesome.
One thing I noticed though, not sure if there is a fix. I was logged into twitter already in Firefox and that window recognized me as logged in but showed the default gravatar. In Safari, I went the site first to test the auth process. All went smoothly and my Twitter icon even popped up. Very cool. That made me realize it was missing from the first one.
Also noticing that after I had logged out of twitter, I was still authenticated with the chat window, even after refreshing several times and leaving the site and coming back.
Using firefox 3.6.10 and Safari 5. Default multisite install with TwentyTen and no other plugins.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Wait a second. My bad.
The first one (firefox) is because I was logged in as site admin, so it ignored the Twitter I guess. The icon showing is because I had no gravatar yet for the admin user in this testing site.
So I logged out of the site. It made me authorize with twitter. All good. But still remain logged in to the chat after logging out with Twitter.
Would also be cool for twitter users if it said "from @username" with a link to the twitter profile. :)
Lead Developer — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@demetriusb - sounds like you are maybe running php 4. Can you verify?
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Very excited about this plugin!!!
I just installed and the chat box is very small when expanded...? Is there something variable in the css that is controlling this?
I have attached what my chat window looks like when expanded.
Lead Developer — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
What is your setting in the settings page?
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
the default on install.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
even if i change the settings it just changes the scrollable area size. the chat window itself stays the same.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Multi Site Feature Request: Super Admin Option
I run a multisite network, but all of the sites are mine.
Would be nice if there was an option to make this controlled under the super admin section.
Meaning the settings in the main site would apply to all sites on my multisite.
I have 40+ sites running, so i have to app register 80 times. 1 for twitter 1 for fb on each site...
Not sure if that is even possible.
Member — 22nd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
In addition to the small window, if I try to login a "public" user. the login fails. but I see ping activity in the logs.
I enter a user name and email click login, but get the same window back with no option to chat.
hoping this and the small window size is some kind of configuration problem.
also where do I log in to chat with users?
Member — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hmm, so is the frontpage chat only a public group chat, or is there any way to have a one-on-one chat? In the corner chat on most sites, potential clients can initiate a chat with you that's one-on-one. That's what we need.
Developer — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@scaseye, all the issues you have sounds like an old browser issue. Could I please know what web browser you are using? In the mean time I'll try to reproduce the issues.
Nice idea, we'll look into adding it in the next version. However you might have to authorize each domain on Twitter and Facebook.
@martythornley
Interesting bug, will get it sorted in the next release. Probably has to do with authenticating via Twitter while logged in.
Nice feature, we'll look into adding it in the next version.
@demetriusb, I believe you are running PHP4. We will get it fixed in the next release, sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Developer — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@demetriusb, can you please try the attached zip file. Please let us know whether it helps.
Member — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@mohanjith tried in the following browsers.
chrome 6.0.472.62
firefox 3.6.10
ie 8.0.6001.18702
same thing in all 3.
Member — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I've tested it out and really am excited about the chat plugin. I haven't found a way to delete the previous chats. Everytime I open the page, reload the browser or try a different brower, the previous chats are there? Is there a way to clean the history?
Lead Developer — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@scaseye Can we get a link to your site? It's likely a css conflict with your theme.
Member — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
How and where do you capture development suggestions for plugins. I have one (or maybe more) for this plugin but I imagine they may have already been suggested?
Member — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Quick thought for future add: it would be great to be able to have a restriction option on chat through the Membership plugin.
Member — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
this chat is a client xmpp?
Volunteer support dude — 23rd September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@AltisonaMedia welcome to the board! Just dump your suggestions here (in the plug in announcement thread) and the devs are pretty good in picking them up and placing them on their tracker.
Developer — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@camaran.thomas, nope it's not an XMPP client unfortunately.
@dpayne2,
Nice feature, we'll see adding it in an up coming version.
@wkriesel, you should see an option to clear the chat by clicking "Clear" button bellow the textarea if you are logged in as an Editor or better. Normal users cannot clear the chat, if that's what you are looking for
Lifetime member! — 24th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
mohanjith !!!!!
I am sooooo happy to see you here ! Welcome !
Member — 25th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I like the Plugin, but there is a bug with Ü,Ö,Ä,ü,ö,ä,...
Developer — 25th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@schnappaholic thanks for the bug report, I'll upload a fixed version here shortly.
Developer — 25th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@schnappaholic, please give the attached file a try, it should fix the issue :)
Member — 26th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@mohanjith works, thx
Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi, great plugin.
(1) is there a way to limit it to only be able to IM people on your friends list?
if not, then:
(2) Is there a way to put it inside of a textbox or php widget so that we can have it stay active on our homepage as a shout box?
Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Having fun testing this out... a couple of comments:
For some reason when I create the chat function in a post or page, I'm the only one that can see it. If another users goes to the same page, all they see is any html that I've included in the page other than the chat box? Any ideas?
Secondly, for the corner chat box, if I try to resize the entire browser window, the chat window rapidly becomes distorted essentially rendering it unusuble in most cases.
Dave
Member — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
One other thing, I echo the desire to have this work across an entire blog network. I also have multiple blogs going but they are all harbored under one large umbrella. It would be great if users could use the chat across the entire domain.
Oh, I guess I have one other idea... how about making an option exclusive for groups? In other words, the corner chat box could have a drop down menu and the user could select which groups they would like the chat function to work for. For private groups, this option would only be available for members who could access that particular group.
Developer — 27th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
That's interesting, can you please give us a link to the post you see the issue in.
Could we please know the size of the browser you are having issues with? We try to resize the chat window to fit the browser window when the browser window is resized.
Member — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@mohanjith
Here's a link to the location for where the chat box should be seen within the page: http://physicianassistanted.com/supporter-tools/supporter-chat-sessions/
Regarding these issues in general, it was much easier for me to put together a little Jing movie to show you rather than try to explain everything in text. Here's a link to the little screen capture movie I created to highlight everything:
http://screencast.com/t/YjUzYjQy
Thanks for your hard work!
Dave
Developer — 28th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@dpayne2
Thank you very much for creating a screencast demonstrating the issues, it really helps. We'll get the issues with the bottom corner chat fixed ASAP.
About the in post chat, I believe you have 'Membership' plugin installed. My guess is 'Shortcode visibility default' set to 'No'.
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@mohanjith
Thanks for looking at those issues with the corner chat function!
As far as the in post chat, you nailed it, thanks so much! As soon as I enabled the shortcode visibility it worked perfectly. I then tested to see if I could restrict it by using that particular shortcode in the membership functions and it worked beautifully. Thanks a ton!
I'll look forward to the fixes on the corner chat issues. By the way, will you announce when this has been updated?
Also, is there any chance we'll have an add on function in the future where it will be possible to see who else is online?... or even the ability to restrict chat to certain groups/friends/etc.?
Developer — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@dpayne2
Always here to help :)
Fixed version will be uploaded here first for you and anyone else to test, once it's released it would be announced.
Definitely, we'll add it in an up coming release.
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi guys,
I have set this up as a plugin on a multi-site network and only allow access to it to supporters.
The issue I have is that people who run blogs on my network cannot change the settings in their admin, like the colours/sizes etc, they get the error:
You do not have sufficient permissions to modify unregistered settings for this site.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Dillon
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
When I tried to activate the chat plugin I got this:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_notificiations_get_id_plugin() (previously declared in /home/trock/public_html/knightsofniche.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php:47) in /home/trock/public_html/knightsofniche.com/wp-content/plugins/1285773528907/update-notifications.php on line 76
Member — 29th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi. I'm brand new at WPMUDEV, so I'm not sure this is the right place for me to be asking this, but it's at least in the ballpark. :-)
I'm wondering what the chat plugin allows. I'd like to create multiple chatrooms available to registered users, so that, for example, all users interested in topic A can be in the Topic A Chat Room, all users interested in topic B can be in the Topic B Chat Room, etc.
Is that possible with this plugin?
Thanks!
Lee
Sales & Support Lead — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya Lee,
First off, welcome to WPMU DEV! :D
What you're wanting to do is definitely possible with the power of our Chat plugin combined with the Membership plugin.
The chat plugin allows you to create individual chats on separate pages. You'd just need to create separate subscription types with membership so that each type would only have access to their live chat page.
You can learn more about our membership plugin here:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership
And some additional installation/setup instructions here:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/membership/installation/
Finally, it's always best if you have a new question to start a new thread. When they get long as this one has it's easy for us to over-look a new question.
Just go to the forums page and choose a specific topic (Plugin Support, Theme Support, etc) from the sidebar on the right. Once there, select "Add New" again at the top right and create your new post.
Hope this helps! Again, welcome! :D
Sales & Support Lead — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@tniche,
That issue is caused by having two copies of the update-notifications plugin. As this plugin is in the middle of a fairly far-reaching overhaul, I'd just recommend removing it. It's not required for the chat plugin to work.
To remove this you'll want to access your site via FTP (or cPanel if you don't have FTP for some reason) and remove the following:
wp-content/plugins/1285773528907/update-notifications.php
(doing this will make the error you refer to go away)
And then if you want to completely remove it for now. Delete this:
wp-content/mu-plugins/update-notifications.php
After that you should be good to go. If you encounter any further issues, please let us know. As this thread is getting rather lengthy, I'd recommend starting a new thread as I recommended to Lee above.
Thanks!
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@masonjames
Any feedback on the issue I am finding posted 4/5 items above
Thanks
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I've tried getting chat to work on my wordpress blog then on another WP MU blog without success.
The txt files unzipped provided very little information.
Nothing under the Plugins TAB except authorization which I could not activate.
Also nothing under any other tab, at all related to Chat.
If anyone has the step by step instructions on setting up Chat and what I should find within my
Admin menus once installed.
I use a LInux for my server and I have complete access to cp, vi, mv, etc..
Thanx in advance for your time.
L
Developer — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
@dillonb, please see http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/not-sufficient-permissions-to-modify-chat-plugin-settings#post-56827 . A fixed version will be uploaded there soon.
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
TYPO: WodPress
So we can better resolve your problem, please include if appropriate the WodPress / BuddyPress / Theme / Plugin version.
In the text field to the right of the Reply Box.
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
I see Demetrius posted:
demetrius
Member
Reputation:1+
Posted on 22nd September 2010 (1 week ago) # I'm getting this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/c07/h04/mnt/108250/domains/activationuniversity.com/html/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
Demetrius
---- I do not see a response to his post.
I am receiving the same error. What is the solution?
L
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
For Future Installers of this Plugin:
In response to my own post:
"I've tried getting chat to work on my wordpress blog then on another WP MU blog without success.
The txt files unzipped provided very little information.
Nothing under the Plugins TAB except authorization which I could not activate.
Also nothing under any other tab, at all related to Chat.
If anyone has the step by step instructions on setting up Chat and what I should find within my
Admin menus once installed."
I have performed the following that addresses the above. Here is what I've done.
1) cd wp-content/plugins
2) mkdir CHAT
3) cd CHAT
4) transfer WPME DEV's chat plugin zip file in the CHAT Directory
5) unzip the WPChat...zip file remove every file except the wordpress-chat-plugin-1.zip file
6) unzip the wordpress-chat-plugin-1.zip file
7) cd chat-1.0.0
8) mv chat /wp-content/plugins
9) Log onto your blog with Administrive priviledges, go to your plugins tab and activate the plugin (chat)
Now I just need to get past the:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/43/d300765498/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
error
Member — 30th September 2010 (1 year ago) #
Step 8) should read:
8) movev chat to your wp-content/plugins directory
(mv chat ../.. )
Developer — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@lars2923, have you tried the file attached to post http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/introducing-the-wordpress-chat-plugin#post-56211 ? It should fix the PHP4 issue. Please do let us know if it does fix your issue.
Thank you very much for pointing it out, we will get it sorted.
Developer — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@dillonb, please give file attached to http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/not-sufficient-permissions-to-modify-chat-plugin-settings?replies=5#post-56930 a try. It should fix your issue.
@dpayne2, I have fixed the extra slash issue in the archive mentioned above. I'm still working on the chat window distorting, will post a new archive here once it's fixed.
Member — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I need to know if there is a solution for this message received when Activating Chat.
The message I receive when attempting to Activate is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /homepages/43/d300765498/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/chat/chat.php on line 30
Developer — 1st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@lars2923
Have you tried the file attached to post http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/not-sufficient-permissions-to-modify-chat-plugin-settings#post-56957 ? Please do let us know whether it fixes your issue.
Member — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
How do I add the chat functionality to a post or page?
Member — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
lol. Nevermind.
Member — 2nd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I added the chat feature to the wp magazine theme,
I am not getting sounds for notifications and none of the settings are working
the use cant see their name or the dat, or hear sounds no matter what i change it to.
any ideas? Ive read through the posts and cant find anything related
Developer — 3rd October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@ptsupport can you confirm which version of the plugin you are using?
Member — 4th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I just tried to install the Chat plug in and received this error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_notificiations_get_id_plugin() (previously declared in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/1286213739374/update-notifications.php:47) in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/livechat/update-notifications.php on line 76
Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks for all the help.
Justin
Member — 4th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I just tried to install the Chat plug in and received this error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_notificiations_get_id_plugin() (previously declared in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/1286213739374/update-notifications.php:47) in /home1/digitar1/public_html/brainandsociety/wp-content/plugins/livechat/update-notifications.php on line 76
Any ideas how to correct this? Thanks for all the help.
Justin
Member — 4th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
This looks like it could be a conflict with another plugin. Try to deactivate all your plugins, then activate them one at a time with the chat plugin activated.
Then you should find out if that is the case.
Developer — 4th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Anyone who had issues with the Chat plugin on IE 7 or had issues with notification sound please give http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/having-issues-installing-plugins?replies=10#post-57377 a try.
Member — 10th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Any widget for this plugin?
Founder & CEO — 11th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hi Guize,
Not yet, but we'll certainly build one into the next version.
Cheers, James
Sales & Support Lead — 12th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya guys,
Thanks for all your great feedback here. It's getting a bit long, so we're gonna "unstick" this one. We've got a new thread where we'll keep ya posted on the latest betas for this plugin here:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/new-wordpress-chat-plugin-alpha
And you can always grab the latest stable version here:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/wordpress-chat-plugin
Thanks again! :D
Member — 20th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I uploaded the chat plugin and it stuffed up the access to admin area. Corrupted the .htaccess files. Any idea why this happened?
I had to contact the host support senior admin to fix it. They had to disable the plugin.
Developer — 20th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@musicwise
Can you be more specific? (e.g. an error message). I highly doubt it would have corrupted .htaccess file, I'm guessing you uploaded duplicate update-notifications.php
Anyways, can you please give http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/new-wordpress-chat-plugin-alpha?replies=16 a try?
Member — 20th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Just wondering if it could have been that I changed the file name that stuffed things up? Should you keep the zip file name exactly the same? I tend to changed file names otherwise I would not know what most of them are!
I saw a notice on the plugin page, that has since disappeared, that says (and remember I had changed the file NAME) that the plugin uploaded had to be deactivated as it was basically empty. Weird.
Developer — 21st October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@musicwise
Renaming the plugin archive shouldn't be an issue but you have to delete the existing plugin with the same name before uploading a new plugin archive.
e.g. if you are uploading chat-1.0.1a9.zip to a WordPress installation with chat 1.0.0 installed, you should delete chat 1.0.1
Hope I'm clear :)
Member — 24th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I am missing something here. First I want to respond to my earlier post on just getting chat "Activited." I had to edit my .htaccess file and add the following lines:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
Now, that I have it activated and I see the options to configure it under my "Settings" menu, now what?
I do not see how I would create a page that is for chatting, or the bottom bar, etc.
I do not find any real instructions for this plugin. Again, am I missing something?
Any pointers now I've made this leap forward, on getting chat operational would be greatly appreciated.
Developer — 24th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@lars2923
To configure the bottom corner chat, go into 'Settings' -> 'Chat' and then click on the 'Bottom corner chat' tab. There set the 'Show' to 'Enabled' and set the other settings appropriately. If you need help with the other settings please let us know.
To add in post/page chat, simply click on the chat icon (see attachment bellow) to add the chat shortcode and save the post.
Hope this helps.
Member — 24th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I have under Main under the Bottom Corner Chat set to enable.
I also do not see the icon under New Post for a Chat
Member — 25th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Here is my New Post Screen Shot. No Chat Icon, yet under Settting->chat->Bottom-Corner-chat=enabled...
THoughts?
Member — 25th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
The attached file didn't make it on my last post. Lets try again.
Developer — 26th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
@lars2923
That's very interesting, I think I will have to have a look to figure out why the chat button is not added to Add new post. If you don't mind can you please send the WordPress admin details via the contact form (http://premium.wpmudev.org/contact/), please mark it for my attention and include a link to the thread.
Looking forward to helping you and figuring out the issue.
Member — 26th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
I can do this, WordPress admin details.
Please elaborate what details from WordPress admin details that you need.
I am unclear of your request.
Thanx,
L
Sales & Support Lead — 26th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Hiya lars,
He'll need you to send through an admin login and password so he can take a look at your setup. As he stated above, simply submit through the contact form to his attention and provide login details and a link to this thread.
Thanks!
Member — 26th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
Webaddress, id and password along with a link to this thread and a brief description of what is/is not happening has been sent to http://premium.wpmudev.org/contact with Attn: mohanjith
Member — 30th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
OK, divetalking.com chat is up and running. Thank you mohanjith for correcting any irregularities.
Here is a summary of what I have done to get things working. They do not include mohanjith's changes, which are documented in his post,
http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/new-wordpress-chat-plugin-alpha#post-58657
Added the following two lines to ~/.htaccess
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
mohanjith did some coding magic
I installed, under ~/wp-content/plugins/chat from the following zip file: chat-1.0.1a11.zip
Developer — 30th October 2010 (1 year ago) #
"Coding magic" I did was to correct @lars2923's theme to have wp_footer() call (probably removed by mistake during the use of the theme). If you have a proper WordPress theme you need not do this. :)
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