BuddyPress

We’re working on a cool chat plugin for Buddypress since no one has released anything yet (not that we know of anyway).

Here’s what the Buddypress Chat plugin offers your site:

- Any user with an account can login and chat with other users that are online.

- Each user can mark themselves as available or unavailable for chat

- A new Chat menu item appears in the My Account menu of the navigation bar.

- The menu takes users to a page where they can view who is currently available for chat.

- The plugin checks the database to see which users were recently active. So when a user drops out of that list for inactivity then they no longer appear in the list of available users for chat until they become active on your site again.

- Chatting with a user produces a small chat box at the bottom of the screen that stays in place even if someone scrolls the screen. Chat conversation is preserved across different pages on your site, so conversions are not interrupted while someone surfs various pages on your site.

It’s in development. Now is the time to test it and give your opinion on features, layout, usability, etc. Go to the test site and sign up for an account, then you can try the chat if others are online to chat with. See the blog post for more info.

http://simplercomputing.net/bp

@M Chat is pretty cool too. Only issue I see is not being able to drag it around in the screen, although it’s pretty neat to have the box follow you around the site. Nice work.

Very Cooool! You’re spoiling us man!

I like the chat plugin,if you can add the avatars in the chat-box like FB chat?
Also, I changed my password on the sign and now I can’t login.
any ideas?

@M, When completed can you submit this to the WP plugin repo so it will show up on the BuddyPress site?

There were a couple of bugs in the chat that I found today – those would have caused it not to work properly. So if anyone can test again, thanks.

Hey this plugin rocks. I’m testing it now. Other people should come by and test too …SO COOL!

http://simplercomputing.net/bp

Hello! I have not any idea of programation, maybe you can use this jquery component for your chat. I think it’s simple.

http://anantgarg.com/2009/05/13/gmail-facebook-style-jquery-chat/

Sorry for my english!

@Renzokuomo – I checked it out before, there are some serious problems with that code.

FYI – The chat plugin should be working Ok now – I think.

Added a new status bar too.

@M

Thanks for sharing this much-anticipated plugin.

Quick question: is there a way to limit the chat function to those who are friends? So that you can only chat with people you have “friended”?

Filter only friends online to chat with using the chat plugin?

The chat interface has been revamped to better support chat with many different people at the same time.

So far it works in Firefox, IE 7, and Chrome. Not sure about Opera or Safari. IE 6 is in development, although I still say that using IE 6 ought to be illegal….

If you find bugs, or use Opera or Safari and test the chat please report whether there are problems.

http://simplercomputing.net/bp

We’ll be adding audible alerts when a new chat message arrives and some other cool features soon.

Great stuff!!!
Am I right, that it’s not for download, yet? I would love it!!!
Ps: Localization would be great!

Get online so that we can test this now?