Quick Chat

Just add it to the sidebar as a widget, or in pages/posts using a special shortcode.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• Can instantly translate messages from and to 37 different languages using Bing Translator API
• Allows admin users to instantly ban chat participant IP from chat using interface controls
• Has chat participants list for both sidebar and embedded chat
• Site registered users can have their login names reserved if site admin selects this behavior
• Site admins can reserve list of chat user names that are off limits for non admin chat users
• Supports incoming messages sound notification for HTML5 audio tag enabled browsers
• Supports unlimited number of separate chat rooms on same or separate pages or posts
• Has admin user interface for deleting messages
• Can be used as elegant sidebar widget for a web page or blog
• Can be embedded into a post or page using WordPress [quick-chat] shortcode
• Can filter bad words and has user interface for adding and removing bad words
• Is translation friendly
• Can detect is user logged in to use user login name for chat user name
• Usage can be restricted to the logged in users only
• Appearance is described by separate CSS file
• Comes with quality set of emoticons to spice up a chat experience
• Saves the website bandwidth by sending Ajax requests only when there are new messages
• Supports multiple private chat sessions between chat users
• Admin users can easily download chat room transcripts from chat interface
• Besides gravatar.com avatars, local avatar plugins are also supported
• Includes admin dashboard widget to chat with other admin users from the site's backend
• Has message input box character counter to limit message size for non admin users

What is new in this release:

• Fixed bug where user list in 'top' position doesn't use comma to separate users.

What is new in version 4.11:

• Fixed bug where chat was not working if back-end uses SSL.
• Fixed bug where clicking smilies would not trigger counter.

What is new in version 4.10:

• Add chat room loading indicator
• Implement automatic private messages and chat rooms daily cleanup using WordPress cron API
• Add "Do automatic daily cleanup to delete messages older than target number of messages" admin checkbox
• Add "Automatically delete all messages from all private chat rooms as well as old private chat invitations daily" admin checkbox
• For webkit load chat container on window load event, for other browsers on DOM ready
• Rename jquery.cookie.js into jquery.c00kie.js to avoid apache mod_security module 950004 rule

What is new in version 4.01:

• Fix bug where sidebar widget would cause site not to load.

What is new in version 3.41:

• Fix bug where Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion -> Don't show Avatars would cause Quick Chat to stop working.

What is new in version 3.40:

• Added support for Quick Flag WordPress plugin to display country flag icons next to user name.
• Added "Disable Quick Flag WordPress plugin integration" checkbox to admin dashboard options (default unchecked).
• Added "Timeout for disabling updates to inactive user (seconds)" input box to admin dashboard options (default 1800).
• By default hide all textarea elements in admin dashboard options until user clicks on "Show" link to make admin options more compact and by default hide that possibly offensive bad words list.
• Move send button bellow smilies container.
• Added French translation.
• Added Finnish translation.

What is new in version 3.32:

• Fix bug where admin dashboard widget was present for all logged in users instead of only for admin users
• Modify CSS to preventing line of text escaping chat container with very long words without spaces
• Add link to Quick Chat settings on dashboard plugin list page
• Other minor CSS tweaks
• Add Polish translation

Requirements:

• WordPress 3 or higher