BuddyPress.org

These are all that I’m aware of:

Cometchat is working on a BuddyPress integration with friends support. It’s a paid script.

http://www.cometchat.com/

Bowob Chat works, but does not have a friend feature, also you might get the plugin author’s ads on your site. Free (w/ ads).

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bowob/

Footerchat is another possibility, again, it has no friends support and you will get some ads occasionally. Free (w/ ads).

http://www.footerchat.com/

Webbychat is another. Has a basic free option, which only supports up to 10 users. Variable paid options are available. You’ll have to manually configure the script to work with BP.

http://webbychat.com

I haven’t tried Cometchat, but the demo is quite impressive. Integration with groups would be killer.

Forgot to mention that you’ll need to modify Bowob if you want BP display names shown instead of usernames.

Also chat data for Bowob, Footerchat and Webbychat resides on their servers. So if that’s an issue, you might not want to use these scripts.

Cometchat give some more information in this topic http://www.cometchat.com/support/topic/269-buddypress-integration/

try asking something as they are not very responsive it could help to get some answer showing that more people have interest in this

I use realchat ( http://www.realchat.com/ )on a couple of websites, and it is really solid – it’s not the cheapest thing out there, but it’s also not the most expensive.

Unfortunately there is no buddypress or wordpressmu integration, although there are free integration plugins for vbulletin, phpbb, drupal, and others. So I would think that a plugin developer could look at the code on this page:

http://www.realchat.com/doc/database-integration.html

and create a plugin that would allow logging in via wordpress/buddypress and show buddypress avatars – that would be awesome. In fact I would pay $100 for someone to make that a reality.

I am currently testing the flashchat script which is cheap – only $5 – on one server, wnd will be testing integration with phpbb and with wordpress to see how it works.

Someone wrote an integration script for it and wordpress 2,7 –

http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?t=49926

so I am thinking it may work – although the script has user roles from wordpress for user, moderators and admins – it says it does not pull the info for gender icons – If someone would modify that it would be awesome, as it is cheap.

I have looked into the ajaxchat, and it looks cool with the way it can integrate into buddypress, was that on wpmu.org I think? – But as I commented there, I am concerned about the ajax chat and server resources, and privacy issues. Not that I have had any issues with it, I just imagine with a lot of people using it at once it may start to hiccup since it relies on sql for messaging. I would love to here real world performance issues with it running 75 users at once on a shared server.

An integrated chat room would be awesome – wish I could help more with it!

(now back to my learning php for dummies book) sigh.

@Edelwater nice heads up. I hated all chat options until you pointed out BoWob. Did you have to do anything special to pull in BP Display Names on your install? Or did you just add it as a typical plugin?

I use the chat add on from Wibiya Toolbar (Tiny Chat) and we had a big event with over 30 people in the chat room at once(http://freelancerunplugged.com/blog/chat-your-face-off-review/)! it worked great but there is no friend feature. The good thing though is that it puts a little number in brackets next to the Join Chat button on the bottom toolbar so you know how many people are in the chat – but would love a buddypress chat option – it would surely kick Facebooks dodgy chat!

http://www.arrowchat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32&p=295#p295

Spam them

@r-a-y

Agreed. Group integration would be killer.

That’s right, Mike.

David Aubin’s port of BlueImp’s AJAX Chat to BP has group functionality:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-ajax-chat/

The original chat interface isn’t polished enough though and the actual port by Dave has its bugs.

I currently have a v1.2 “re-port” of BlueImp’s AJAX Chat working on my test server. It functions well, but outputs quite a few warnings and notices in the server log! If I can get it to a stable state without the warnings, I might release it.

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If there’s a better, open-source chat plugin that supports multiple rooms, that would be another option!

I have made tow posts to this thread, which I think are important, neither get published – they appear to me when logged in, but non one else can read them?

The first post had three links in it, and it never got published.

I edited it a bit, with only two links in it, and it appears that that one will not show to the public or any other members? What’s the deal?

Hi,

I haven’t touched buddypress-ajax-chat since the last release pretty much, but I’m interested to know what doesn’t work so that I can fix it. You said widgets don’t work? Can you tell me more?

R-a-y log outputs? Do you php or javascript?

Just send me the bugs, lol!!!!

@Dfa327 and everyone else too,

Just thought I’d chime in here with some comments on buddypress-ajax-chat. I purchased the premium version a while back and had Dave install it on my original BP1.1.3 site and it worked flawlessly across the whole network.

I’ve now installed BP1.2 and only had to make a slight modification so the main chat would work. There’s no plugin-template in BP1.2. So simply copy-paste the one from BP1.1.3, add in the content & padder divs, add in the call for the sidebar and upload that file to your theme. It works beautifully.

There’s only one feature that I haven’t managed to get working yet: invite Username. “Username” is not recognized. I take this as an opportunity to dive in and learn a bit about how this stuff works. If I can debug it myself… hooray for me!

By the way, the shoutbox works just fine across all blogs of the network in BP1.2, although I haven’t had the opportunity to test it with multiple members ‘cuz I don’t have any yet