WordPress chat plugin supporting private chat, chat rooms, avatars, user list, words filtering, smilies, caching plugins and more. Quick Chat is self hosted chat solution. This means that your chat messages are stored inside your local WordPress database and are totally under your control. Because of that there are no limits or monthly fees for number of chat users or messages, these are limited only by your web server capabilities.

Before you install Quick Chat please check is you web server sufficiently capable to support number of users you expect visiting your chat at the same time.

Quick Chat feature highlights

• New in v4.10: Implement automatic private messages and chat rooms daily cleanup using WordPress cron API
• Add PHP caching WordPress plugins like WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache compatibility (See FAQ for more)
• Add feature to configure which WordPress user role has Quick Chat moderator capability
• Avoid losing CSS customizations after Quick Chat update (See FAQ for more)
• Supports Quick Flag WordPress plugin to display country flag icons next to chat nicknames
• You can set timeout for disabling updates to inactive user
• Translating Quick Chat into your language is simple using Quick Chat online translation interface
• Supports multiple private 1 on 1 chat sessions
• Can filter bad words from your chat rooms
• Admin users can easily download chat room transcripts
• Besides gravatar.com avatars, local avatar plugins are also supported
• Includes admin dashboard widget to chat with other admin users from your site backend
• Has message input box character counter to limit message size
• Allows admin users to instantly ban chat participant IP from chat
• Has chat participants list for both sidebar and embedded chat
• Site registered users can have their chat nicknames reserved
• Site admins can reserve additional list of chat nicknames
• Supports incoming messages sound notification for modern browsers
• Supports unlimited number of separate chat rooms
• User interface is translation friendly (translation template, Croatian, Italian, Czech, Romanian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, German, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Estonian, French, Finnish and Welsh (some partial) translation files provided)
• Integrates with WordPress user accounts to use login name as chat nickname
• Comes with quality set of emoticons to spice up your chat experience
• Saves your website bandwidth by sending AJAX requests only when there are new messages

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For more information and Quick Chat demo please visit Quick Chat demo page at TechyTalk.info.