Community Chat Box Plugin V1.0
Introduction
- Community Chat Box Plugin is a plugin allow the users to able to communicate realtime. It use Pusher library to push message instantly.
- Community Chat Box plugin can be only used for ForumEngine Theme and QAEngine theme.
- You need to register Pusher account and get API to make the plugin work.
- The messages will not be stored in database to avoid spam or crash the database.
Register Pusher
- You access to this site for registering and get API Pusher information:
- Register account and confirm your email address
- Click to create channel
- Fill the information for your app and click to create app button
- Click to app keys to get API information ( Note : Please store the API information in safe place )
Set up Plugin
Go to Chat Box Settings and enter the API information which you get from Pusher.
Please make sure that you enter the correct information.
Channel name: you must avoid special character and should make it like a slug ( no space , no special character)
You can also change the other settings:
For example : you must not offend other users , spam , spread bad news, scam,....
You can also replace text with the built-in option:
Especially, you can change the color of the Chat Box with the available options:
Add to header menu
You can go to Appearance > Menus > Add items to header menu like this: