Title: BuddyPress Group Chatroom
Author: Venutius
Published: <strong>March 28, 2019</strong>
Last modified: February 10, 2021

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# BuddyPress Group Chatroom

 By [Venutius](https://profiles.wordpress.org/venutius/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bp-group-chatroom.1.7.7.zip)

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## Description

This plugin provides neat chatrooms into BuddyPress groups. Each Group admin can
enable a group Chat room, available for all group members to view and post.

The Chat area provides an ajax chat room which displays the most recent messages
along with timestamps and usernames. It also has a “who’s online” area which shows
other group members viewing the Chat page.

#### Features

 * Who’s Online list of members in the chatroom.
 * Text Chat: Supports text and links added via the text input box.
 * Video and other embeds – Videos such as You-tube can be added as an embedded 
   video using the Video button. The same link can be used for other WordPress embedable
   urls.
 * Emojis supported: over 1,000 emojis easily inserted into the chat stream with
   options to load them all or just a subset.
 * Images: Users with upload_files capability can add images from the media directory/
   upload into the chat stream.
 * Images Lightbox: Supports WP Featherlight lightbox, if you install this plugin
   then images loaded into chat will open in a lightbox.
 * Activity threading: chat conversations can be collected and posted to the activity
   stream.
 * Moderation: Group admin and moderators can delete chat messages.
 * Theming: Chat message box colours can be set by Group Admin
 * Auto-hide of chat messages after up to 30 days.
 * Auto-deletion of chat messages after up to 30 days.

Chat messages support links, embeded video is supported an it’s possible to call
in another site member to the chat using @mentions.

I’ve introduced rudimentary threads support. The behavior is that a new message,
posted more then 15 minutes after the last message will be marked as a new thread.
All messages posted after that initial message will be regarded as part of that 
thread. After 15 minutes the thread will be deemed closed and if posting of threads
to group activity is enabled then all messages in the thread will be posted in a
single activity update. I’m expecting this functionality to change as the plugin
develops.

Currently the chat supports text chat and the sharing of links. I’m interested in
adding further features but would like to see some user requests for the same.

This plugin was originally created by David Cartwright and has been forked by Venutius.
It includes an emoji set which was sourced from WP Emoji One by Monchito.net.

This plugin runs from your own server, no chat data leaves your site. This has has
the benefit of minimizing your exposure regarding user privacy and GDPR, however
chat will be as responsive as your server and can be laggy because of this. User
conversations are stored for one month then deleted.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * screenshot-1.jpg – LiveChat in the group.

## Installation

Download and upload the plugin to your plugins folder. Activate.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[NE FONCTIONNE PAS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ne-fonctionne-pas-33/)󠁿

 [bgtbbox](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bgtbbox/) March 14, 2021 1 reply

NE FONCTIONNE PAS, rien ne se mets en place pas d’onglet dans Buddypress

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### 󠀁[SUPER and really helpful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-and-really-helpful-3/)󠁿

 [Hermann Matthias](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthy99/) February 10, 2021

many thanks to the creator, this feature is a must for all BuddyPress pages

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### 󠀁[Good addition](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-addition-3/)󠁿

 [arslanlewizkij](https://profiles.wordpress.org/arslanlewizkij/) August 9, 2019

I thank! Very conveniently and quickly! To change a little loading of smiles and
in general will be super.

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## Contributors & Developers

“BuddyPress Group Chatroom” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Venutius ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/venutius/)
 *   [ D Cartwright ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aekeron/)

“BuddyPress Group Chatroom” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-group-chatroom/contributors)
for their contributions.

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-group-chatroom/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/bp-group-chatroom/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/bp-group-chatroom/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.7.7

 * 09/02/2021
 * Fix: Translation improvements.

#### 1.7.6

 * 14/01/2021
 * Fix: Corrected error with color picker, now works in wp 5.6.

#### 1.7.5

 * 09/01/2021
 * Fix: Removed repeating “No messages yet” from chat display to improve UI
 * Fix: Removed color picker due to i18n compatibility issues with WP 5+ will try
   to find a solution and reinstate.

#### 1.7.4

 * 06/05/2019
 * Fix: More css improvements, user list consistency update.

#### 1.7.3

 * 05/05/2019
 * Fix: Corrected blank messages on page reload.
 * Fix: Corrected duplicate messages being displayed.
 * Fix: CSS improvements.

#### 1.7.2

 * 23/04/2019
 * Fix: Corrected error with mentions notifications.
 * Fix: Refactored notifications code.

#### 1.7.1

 * 14/04/2019
 * New: Now supports WP Featherlight for lightbox views of images added to chat.
 * Fix: Corrected a number of file not found error’s related to emojis.
 * Fix: Ensured AJAX functions were called with a unique id.

#### 1.7.0

 * 09/04/2019
 * New: Users with upload_files capability can upload and add images to the chatroom.
 * Fix: Corrected blank notifications issue.
 * Fix: Corrected error not clearing down the message after it’s sent.

#### 1.6.0

 * 08/04/2019
 * Fix: Prevent blank messages.
 * Fix: Close Video and Emoji dialog when user changes the selection.
 * Fix: Corrected JS Error tabSelector is null when not viewing group Chat page.
 * Fix: Corrected typo causing threads to be always saved to activity.
 * Fix: Lowered Online User List refresh count to improve the UX.
 * New: Chat message hide time now selectable by Group Admin
 * New: Chat message delete time now selectable by Group Admin
 * New: Chat colours can now be set by group admin.
 * New: Emojis now have an option to load the full set or just a subset.

#### 1.5.1

 * 08/04/2019
 * New: Added uninstall.php to clean up database and group meta on uninstall.
 * New: Added French translation

#### 1.5.0

 * 06/04/2019
 * New: Added support for emoji’s.

#### 1.4.0

 * 06/04/2019
 * New: Added ability for group moderators and admin to delete chat messages.

#### 1.3.1

 * 05/04/2019
 * Fix: Activity updates now have a descriptive title
 * Fix: Videos now display correctly in the activity feed.

#### 1.3.0

 * 05/04/2019
 * New: Added support for embeded videos and other embeddable content.
 * New: Updated New message update routines to prevent constant content loading.

#### 1.2.2

 * 05/04/2019
 * Fix: Corrected function no found error when friendships are not active.
 * Fix: Further translation updates.
 * Fix: Corrected invalid argument passed to foreach error.

#### 1.2.1

 * 05/04/2019
 * Fix: Revised text for translations.

#### 1.2.0

 * 05/04/2019
 * New: Added Mentions support with a twist – mentioned users will get an email 
   pointed to the chatroom. Notifications however will only be sent if the option
   of posting threads to activity is enabled.
 * Fix: Added Text Domain.
 * Fix: Made “Say” translatable.

#### 1.1.0

 * 01/04/2019
 * New: Introduced rudimentary threads, thread timeout is 15 mins.
 * New: Introduced posting of completed threads to activity.
 * New: Messages now scroll from the bottom.
 * New: Refactored message structure in anticipation of more complex actions.
 * New: Refactored settings into array to cope with future growth.
 * New: Added option to delete messages after thirty days.
 * Fix: Updated message delete after 30 days.
 * Fix: Corrected error causing Chat to be displayed in groups where it is not enabled.
 * Fix: Corrected date to local server date rather than UTC.

#### 1.0.0

 * 27/03/2019
 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.7.7**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.6.17**
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-chatroom/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-chatroom/),
   and [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-chatroom/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bp-group-chatroom)
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[buddypress](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/buddypress/)
   [chat](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chat/)[groups](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/groups/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://li.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-chatroom/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Venutius ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/venutius/)
 *   [ D Cartwright ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aekeron/)

## Support

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