Full features list

Wise Chat Pro provides a long list of features allowing to adjust the chat to your needs:

  • Easy installation: The plugin can be installed in three ways: using a shortcode, a widget or a PHP function. Multiple chat instances can be embedded on the same page / post.
  • WordPress Multisite support: Wise Chat Pro runs properly in WordPress Multisite environment. You can create a few WordPress websites and install Wise Chat Pro only once.
  • Voice messages: Empower your conversation with your own voice that can be recorded and posted in the text bubble.
  • BuddyPress groups integration: Integrate Wise Chat Pro into BuddyPress groups and provide a live communication tool for group members.
  • BuddyPress friends integration: Integrate Wise Chat Pro into BuddyPress friends and provide a live communication tool for friends.
  • Responsive Web Design (mobile-friendly interface): Interface is also designed for mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones.
  • 7 Themes: Choose one of 7 good-looking Wise Chat Pro themes to instantly adjust the style of the chat.
  • Hooks: Add your own code to the main points of the chat’s logic.
  • Custom Emoticons: Use your own set of emoticons to enrich the look and feel.
  • E-mail Notifications: Notify administrator when a new message is posted in the chat.
  • No server requirement: There is no need to set up, maintain or pay for a server. All you need is a regular WordPress website on a regular hosting.
  • Unlimited channels: Let your users post messages in dedicated chat rooms (called channels). Run multiple channels either simultaneously on the same page or on separate pages.
  • Unlimited users: There is no limit to the number of users of the Wise Chat Pro. The only limit is your server’s capacity.
  • Private messages: Let your users talk to each other in private conversations. Each user can also ignore unwanted conversations.
  • Private messaging permissions: Restrict private messaging to certain user roles.
  • Private offline messages: Let your users send private messages to users who are offline.
  • Pending messages (full moderation): Let your moderators filter all posted messages before they get published.
  • Edit posted messages: Users can correct their messages.
  • Replying to messages: Users can reply to messages posted by others.
  • Private channels: Make individual chat channels private by protecting them with a password. Only users that know the password have access to the channel.
  • Channels management: Let admin remove all the messages from a single channel or delete the channel completely.
  • Anonymous users: Anonymous users are by default allowed to participate in the chat. Auto-generated name (configurable) is assigned to such user.
  • Anonymous users with custom name: Let your users choose their name when they visit the chat for the first time.
  • Registered WordPress users: Registered and logged-in users are properly recognized by the plugin. You can even allow only registered users to access the chat.
  • External authentication: Increase range of potential users by allowing them to log in using their accounts on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
  • Single sign-on: No separate credentials (login and password) to the chat are required. If an user is logged-in to your website, then the chat automatically logs her / him in.
  • Users list: Show the list of online users and their national flag / country / city of origin in the sidebar of the chat. Display amount of online users.
  • Users counter: Show the amount of online users.
  • Hidden anonymous users: Hide anonymous users on the users list. Encourage these users to register and become a regular chatter.
  • Logged in users only: Enable option to permit access for registered and logged-in users only.
  • Selective user roles access: Choose which WordPress user roles are allowed to use the chat. It is useful when you want to give chat access to specific roles only.
  • Read-only mode: Make the chat read-only for anonymous users. Encourage your users to register in order to post messages.
  • Read-only mode for user roles: Select which user roles have read-only access to the chat. Let only premium users use the chat and the rest will be just watchers.
  • Users limit in channels: Set a limit to the amount of users allowed to participate in a channel.
  • Channels limit for a single user: Set a limit to the amount of channels that an user can participate simultaneously.
  • User settings: Chat users have options to change their name, color of their texts or mute sounds generated by the chat.
  • Flood control: Detect spammers and block them from posting too many messages in the chat. User that exceeds the threshold is automatically banned from the chat.
  • Links and images posting: Allow to post clickable links and images. Posted images are downloaded into Media Library. No need to point to external images.
  • Pictures from camera: On mobile devices users can take a picture directly and send it with a message.
  • YouTube movies: Display links to YouTube movies as a video player. You can adjust width and height of such players.
  • Files attachments: Let your users attach files directly to the messages using the attachments uploader.
  • Multiline messages: Let your users post long messages in multiple lines. Keyboard shortcut Shift+Enter can be used to send such messages.
  • Notifications: Notify about new messages. It can be a sound or a counter in browser’s title.
  • Mentioning someone: To recall another user add @ to user’s name “@UserName” when inserting your message into input field
  • Auto cleanup: Auto cleanup messages older than defined amount of time.
  • Localization: Provide a translation for your language. All texts are easily translatable.
  • Appearance adjustments: Adjust visual appearance to match your website by editing colors, font sizing, showing / hiding interface elements, changing sort order of messages and positioning chat elements. All this can be done using settings page.
  • Auto-hide users list: Users list can be auto-hidden on narrow screens. It is useful for mobile devices.
  • Hide anonymous users: Hide anonymous users on the users list.
  • Avatars: Enhance appearance of the chat by displaying avatars of your users.
  • Bad words filter: Protect your chat by enabling swearing control using built-in dictionary. It supports English and Polish languages.
  • Statistics Shortcode: Display basic statistics of a channel. It can be on a completely different page.
  • Filters: Create rules that detect and replace specific words / patterns in posted messages. It is great for cutting off links or filtering outgoing links and more.
  • Messages history: All recently published messages are available in input field for resending (use arrow keys).
  • Chat Opening Hours / Days: Define days and range of hours when the chat is open for users.
  • Bans: Administrator can ban (IP based ban) users who do not follow rules of the chat.
  • Automatic bans: An option that automatically blocks an user if he / she exceeds the defined number of bad words.
  • Moderation: Administrators (or other specified user roles) can delete single messages or ban users that violate chat rules.
  • Emoticons: See funny smileys in messages by enabling emoticons support. You can easily use this function by selecting one of smileys from the pop up. There are four sets to be chosen and you can also set one of three predefined sizes.
  • Custom CSS: Custom CSS styles can be applied for each element of the chat.
  • Channels statistics: Observe various statistics of channels, including amount of posted messages or users online.
  • Detailed configuration page: All features can be configured on the settings page (see the screenshots). You can control messages posting, appearance, channels statistics, filters, bans and localization.
  • Twitter hash tags: Detects Twitter hash tags and converting them into links.
  • Backups: Make backup of all messages from a given channel by downloading them as a single CSV file.

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