Simple Ajax Chat displays a fully customizable Ajax-powered chat box anywhere on your site.
Simple Ajax Chat makes it easy for your visitors to chat with each other on your website. There already are a number of decent chat plugins, but I wanted one that is simple yet fully customizable with all the features AND outputs clean HTML markup.
Features
- Strong anti-spam filters
- Plug-n-play functionality
- Designed to be the simplest possible persistent chat
- No configuration required, just include shortcode or template tag
- Display on any post or page with the shortcode
- Display anywhere in your theme template with the template tag
- Includes default CSS styles and enables custom CSS from the settings
- JavaScript/Ajax goodness loads new chats without refreshing the page
- Also works when JavaScript is not available on the user’s browser
- Clean markup makes it easy to style the appearance as you please
- New chat messages fade-in with custom duration and color
- Includes manage-chats panel for editing and deleting chats
- Links included in chats include
_blanktarget attributes - Includes complete map of all available CSS hooks
- Includes built-in banned-phrases list
- Automatic smileys supported 🙂
- On-demand restoration of all default settings
- Super-slick toggling settings page
- Option to play sound alert for chat messages
- Timestamp for each chat message
- Display chat messages in ascending or descending order
- NEW: option to use logged-in username as the chat name
Customize everything
- Customize the update interval for the Ajax-requests
- Customize the fade-duration for new chat messages
- Customize the intro and outro colors for new chats
- Option to require login/registration to participate
- Option to enable/disable URL field for usernames
- Option to use textarea for larger input field
- Customize the default message and admin name
- Customize the appearance with your own CSS
- Option to enable/disable custom styles
- Option to load the JavaScript only when the chat box is displayed
- Add custom content to the chat box and chat form
- Built-in control panel to edit and delete chats
- Built-in blacklist to ban specific phrases from the chat
