This Wordpress plugin adds live chat functionality to your Wordpress blog. Your visitors can chat with eachother right in your website without refreshing their browsers. It’s almost like chatting on an instant messenging network! And it’s all powered by AJAX, a hot new old technology that powers things like Gmail, Google Maps, and other brilliant web apps. Now, you can get a piece of all this in your own blog! This plugin makes it very easy. Just follow the simple instructions and you should be okay.
Features
- Uses AJAX – No need to refresh ever. Other people’s comments will appear in real time.
- Wordpress admin panel that allows you to control colors, update times, and edit/delete comments.
- Displays the the time of the last message at the top. Messages have a rollover-able title that shows how long ago the comment was made.
- Any words with “http://” in them will be converted into hyperlinks. Wordpress smileys also work.
- Wordpress users that are logged in automatically get their nickname filled in, and other users’ names get stored for later use.
- No iFrames, ever. 100% valid XHTML strict
- Working fine up to Wordpress 2.8
Download here!
How to install?
- Download, extract to your computer and upload to your hosting, server,…This is located at /wp-content/plugins/.
- Browse to your plugins manager in the admin section of your blog. Activate Jalenack’s Wordspew plugin. This will automatically create a table in your database that the plugin will use for its content.
- Now you have to choose where you want the shoutbox to show on your blog. I suggest putting it in your sidebar. To edit the sidebar, go to Appearance –> Widgets and drag Shoutbox to your sidebar.
Note:
If shoutbox not show in your homepage when you edit Widgets, you can do this way:
If you can not show shoutbox in your homepage. You can go to:
“…/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/sidebar.php“
using FTP software or login to your hosting control panel,… and put the code:
<? php jal_get_shoutbox(); ?>
into place you want to show.
Example:
<li><h2>Live Shoutbox</h2>
<? php jal_get_shoutbox(); ?>
</li>
Remember read file Readme.txt before install this plugin.
Wish you success! 