1. Start
  2. Intro
  3. Setup
  4. Settings
  5. Sources and Credits

WP Online Chat

Connect with users and visitors...immediately


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Intro


The Wp Online Chat plugin is a great way to keep in touch with potential clients, readers and other users on your site.

Visitors can chat too

As an option, you may allow visitors to access the chat functionality, they will be however limited as they will only see site users in their chat panel and will not be able to send messages to other visitors (obvious reasons)

Setup


First, copy the plugin folder to your Wordpress plugins directory and access the admin section as you would for any other plugin.

The plugin will create a settings page called "Online Chat" that can be found under the Settings menu on the left hand side of the screen.

Settings


Before using the plugin please make sure that all of the following settings are set to your needs:

Role Permissions Select each role that you would like to allow acces to the chat function, by default only the admin will be selected.
Visitor Chat Enable visitors to your site to use the chat function
Visitor Timeout Select a the amount of time (in minutes) that a visitors can remain idle on you chat list before being removed
Visitor Clean If enabled, expired visitors will be purged from the db when the system cleans messages, (you can override this in the chat section be selecting the save option on a specific visitor).
Ping Interval How often will the chat ping the sever for updates (in seconds), lower values will result in higher server loads, recommended value is around 3-4
Ping Timeout Set to a number if you would like the users browser to stop checking the server after a certain amount of pings (0 for unlimited), this will help alleviate users who leave the chat on in the browser open. This is recommended to be set around 600
Idle How long in minutes until a user is marked as idle since their last sent message
Clean Messages In hours, if set to a number other than 0, the server will delete messages once a day that are older than the set number of hours have passed. (24 hr minimum). It is strongly recommended to set this since it will keep your database optimal

 

Sources and Credits


This plugin uses the following open source resources: