Yesterday, a pretty cool plugin was brought to our attention. Normally when communities want to hold chats, they use Twitter. For private chats, we know some folks use Skype, others use IRC. Well, Brad Williams and team WebDevStudios have started development on a new chat room plugin that lets you create chat rooms using the WordPress administrative interface for your users to participate in. Although this plugin is in its infancy, it has some great potential for sites with a lot of users.
Video Tutorial
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All you have to do is install and activate the Chat Room plugin. Upon activation, you will see a new menu option added called Chat Rooms. You can add chats just like you will add a page.
Only logged-in users can participate in chat. You will give the user the link to the chat room, which is just like a page.
This plugin has only been out for a few days, so it is still very new. It is lacking some features that would make this plugin even cooler. A list of people in the chat room would be really great, so other users can see who is active in the chat. The chat should have the ability to italicize, bold, underline etc. Something like the comment form quicktags would be neat. Another feature someone suggested was the ability to add banned word list.
Do you think that you will use this plugin on your site? What are your thoughts?
It’s a pity that you can not embed room
on any page, e.g. shordcode, widget etc.
We will be sure to look into alternatives with that option for future updates
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Really Appreciate It
I installed and activated the plugin but its not working.
403 Forbidden
The website’s configuration prevents you from accessing this page.
This is great.
I just got a job for an online bar, not really and online bar but there would be a platform where the visitors can interact with some of the brand ambassadors.
I think I will try out this plugin to see how it works.
Thanks,
Saminu!
Hi
i have chat room site and i want to use wordpress chat room their is any plugin that i can use on my blog right now i am using someone else chat room scrpit but i want to add mine chat room please suggest if their is any good chat room thanks
how many users can use the facility of chat room at a time?
I used that plugin on my website – it works fine but is too simple. Mainly no file sharing feature so I switched to Chatwee. It suits me better.
Hello. How do I create something like the top of your site, such as HOME »BLOG» WORDPRESS PLUGINS »HOW TO CREATE CHAT ROOMS …
Its a plugin called Breadcrumb NavXT. You can see more about it on our Blueprint page.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/blueprint/
Thank you so much
I’m always looking for way to increase the use of our organization’s WordPress install. We have a bulletin board running on another system but I want to centralize systems. Perhaps bbpress with this plugin is the way forward.
Did you see this WP chat plugin? One of the best, if not THE best:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-chat/
Made in Croatia
Ivica
Didn’t know about that one. Will have to take a look at it.
Have to agree with this. Looked into both and the one you posted is way better! I’ve been looking for something JUST like this for my site at NE1UP.com so I really appreciate it!
No worries, @WPBeginner, still love your site and it’s so beautiful.
Wouldn’t have figured this out if you hadn’t posted about WordPress chat in the first place!
Thanks guys!