“Chatty” Documentation by “OriginalEXE” v1.0
“Chatty”
Created: 11 August 2013
By: OriginalEXE
Email: CodeCanyon
Thank you for purchasing my plugin! If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!
Table of Contents
A) How to install - top
This is a standard WordPress plugin and as such, can be installed like any other. Login to your WordPress Dashboard - mouseover on Plugins menu item on the left and click on Add New submenu item. In the upper tabs on a new screen, choose Upload link.
Make sure you have extracted chatty.upload.zip file out of the .zip file downloaded from CodeCanyon. Click Choose File, find chatty.upload.zip file and finally, click Install Now. You should get a few messages, just click Activate Now and you are done with installing this plugin!
B) How to setup - top
To insert a chat instance in a post/page, a simple shortcode is used. If you are new to shortcodes, don't worry, they are very simple to use in WordPress!
The most simple shortcode you can use is
[chatty]. Simply paste it like that into your post/page content, save and check the post/page on the fronend, a chat should appear.
Shortcode supports a few parameters, listed below:
id - By default, all chat instances are connected, so no matter the post/page you are chatting on, same messages/users are chatting. You can separate it by using this parameter. Just give it a numeric value and it's a new chat instance with separate messages.
allow_guests - Set to 1 if you want to allow non-logged-in users to chat, otherwise set to 0 (don't forget to enable registrations on your website).
interval - Time in seconds between checks for new messages. Increase if chat is causing server overload.
storage - How many messages should be stored into database. When limit is reached, old messages will be simply overwritten by new ones.
Example of a shortcode using all of the available parameters:
[chatty id="303" allow_guests="1" interval="411" storage="5"]
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions related to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist.
OriginalEXE