Chat Bro Live Group Chat Plugin

ChatBro – live group chat for your website.

Why ChatBro?

• Support Telegram, VK chats and channels
• Audio, photo and video previews
• Web chat constructor
• Mobile ready
• Very fast
• Indexed by search robots

Easy Installation

After installing the plugin just name your chat. Chat can be easily configured with visual chat constructor tool. You can change color scheme, size, initial state, etc.

Link with Telegram

Add @chatbrobot to your Telegram chat or channel. Send /sync command in case of channel. You’ll receive sync url from bot.

Group chat is better than privates with operators

Most people just read chat and see admin’s reactions to realize that the website is functional and adequate. You can chat with visitor in private if needed.

Open Source

ChatBro plugin is an open source project. You can get the source code from GitHub.
Pull requests are welcome.

4.1.0

• Plugin refactoring, code updated for the latest wp version.
• Added ‘Plugin enabled’ option.
• Various minor improvements and fixes.
• Fixed a situation where it was impossible to delete a plugin that was never activated.
• Updated old logos and banner.

4.0.5

• Fixed shortcode option static=false, for cases when the chat is defined as static.

4.0.4

• Fixed display of profile and tariff tabs.

4.0.3

• Updated translations.
• Updated load own translations.

4.0.2

• Removed open chat button.

4.0.1

• API fixed.
• Fixed interface.
• Fixed saving settings.

4.0.0

• Improved UI and usability.
• Ability to add new chats and delete existing ones.
• Customizing each individual chat.
• A system of child chats has been implemented to generate chats on the fly.
• Added a tab with a list of all chats and useful information on them.
• Added profile tab. On it you can get information on the status of your bots, history of payments and debits, referrals, as well as replenish the balance directly from the plugin. Also on it, you can link your profile with other social networks for convenient moderation in the chat.
• Added a tab with tariffs.
• Updated plugin settings tab. The options ‘Display chat to guests’, ‘Show popup chat’ and ‘Pages’ have been moved to the chat list tab. Now each chat will have separate settings for these parameters.
• Updated help tab. Added useful links to our resources, as well as communication contacts. Added a new chat widget with news, which is synchronized with our telegram channel.
• Added useful tips and notifications.
• Bug fixes.

3.0.3

• Bug fixes

3.0.2

• Minor bug fixes

3.0.1

• Minor bug fix

3.0.0

• New plugin core

2.3.0

• Updated chat embed code

2.2.10

• Encoding chat parameters containing urls to prevent chat parameters substitution by some plugins doing page post processing and replacing urls.

2.2.9

• Minor bug fix

2.2.8

• More debug info added

2.2.7

• Some debug info added

2.2.6

• Italian translation added

2.2.5

• Removed some debug info

2.2.4

• Fixed an issue where chat was always displaying to guests despite of “Display to guests” setting value.

2.2.3

• Compatibility with most plugins that replaces Gravatar avatars with locally

2.2.2

• Integration with WP User Avatar plugin.

2.2.1

• Made separate support chats for English and Russian speaking users.

2.2.0

• Added wordpress widget for chat

2.1.1

• WordPress language pack integration

2.1.0

• Help tab added with FAQ that will be updating and live chat with developers

2.0.3

• Fixed an issue where login via facebook and other social networks fails with error “Incorrect CSRF token”.

2.0.2

• Fixed issue when chat wasn’t shown to unregistered user
• Many minor bug fixes

2.0.1

• More informative error message on plugin activation fault.

2.0.0

• Redesigned UI.
• Shortcode [chatbro] added.
• Per role permissions configuration added.

1.1.11

• Fixed issue when chat wasn’t being created after plugin installation until user has gone to the chat constructor.

1.1.10

• Fixed issue when the plugin wasn’t been uninstalled correctly.

1.1.9

• Fixed issue when spoofing protection signature was calculated incorrectly.

1.1.8

• Issue when chat admin capabilities weren’t added to Administrator after plugin upgrade was finaly fixed.

1.1.7

• Fixed issue when plugin deactivation and reactivation were required after upgrade to add message delete and user ban capabilities to Administrator role.

1.1.6

• Admin user proper appears in chat created from plugin (without registration at chatbro).
• Added capability to delete chat messages and ban users for WP Administrator role.

1.1.5

• Fixed issue where fatal error was occured after plugin installation on systems that don’t have cURL module installed. We didn’t depend on cURL module anymore.

1.1.4

• WordPress 4.7 compatibility tested.

1.1.3

• Fixed issue where chat weren’t appeared on the page after plugin activation.

1.1.2

• Gravatar issue fixed (avatars weren’t displayed correctly).

1.1.1

• Minor bug fixes. PHP 5.2 compatibility issues fix.

1.1.0

• Integration with chat constructor

1.0.9

• Integration of a user profile with WP-Recal

1.0.8

• New option: “Show the message to guests with a request to be register”. screenshot

1.0.7

• Bug fixes

1.0.6

• Protection against CSRF attacks
• Find your secretKey in “My chats” on chatbro.com >> (you must be logged)

1.0.5

• Exclusion of broken links on user profiles

1.0.4

• Added the option of indexing chat. See screenshot #5

1.0.3

• Appearance parameters are added:
• Message block background color
• Message block text color
• Input block background color
• Input block text color

1.0.2

• Integration of a user profile with BuddyPress, bbPress

1.0.1

• Fix: Broken avatars

1.0.0

• Initial release