Plugin / Wise Chat

Changelog

2.8.1

• Tested on WordPress 5.3

2.8

• Major update of all 4 themes
• Improved: Moved Javascript code to the footer

2.7

• Spam report button
• Improved: W3C issues
• Improved: admin action buttons without direct img elements
• Fixed: security issue with the external links

2.6.3

• Option to adjust date and time format in messages
• Option to adjust lock time of user names
• Fixed: error in WiseChatRenderer

2.6.2

• Option to disable user names duplication check
• Removed ad footer
• Source files tags update

2.6.1

• Kicking users
• Changed default settings to reflect richer interface
• Option to reset all settings to default
• Fixed: text color by roles when username is linked

2.6

• A new theme: “Air Flow”
• “Wise Chat Channel Users” widget for displaying current users
• Option to set username color for each user role separately
• Option to set limit to the length of user names
• Reloading page after sending valid POST forms on Force Username and Channel Password screens
• Settings page improvement – preserving current tab after saving settings
• Fixed: choosing text color issues
• Fixed: text input width on Force Username and Channel Password screens
• Fixed: image uploader preview issue on Chrome

2.5

• New engine “Ultra Lightweight AJAX” which consumes 5 times less CPU
• Less frequent maintenance actions which means less CPU usage
• Option to display message and username in the same line
• Better displaying emoticons panel on mobile devices
• Option to enable / disable displaying errors to chat users
• Fixed: issue with broken menu on Wise Chat Pro settings page, this blocked navigation between settings sections
• Fixed: issues with setting background colors

2.4.3

• Option to pass more complex configuration in shortcode, for example: [wise-chat opening_hours=”{opening: 8:30, openingMode: AM, closing: 8:32, closingMode: AM }” enable_opening_control=”1″ opening_days=”{ Monday,Tuesday}”]
• Option to select which parts of a message are effected when user changes text color
• Option to exclude anonymous users from the counter calculation
• Set validity time on AJAX internal requests (preventing indexation by Web crawlers)
• Option to verify “X-Requested-With” header in AJAX requests
• Fixed: valid content type (application/json) for content returned for AJAX requests
• Fixed: unclickable image upload button on some themes
• Fixed: error with uploading images on WordPress 4.7
• Fixed: switched to JSON content type for AJAX requests (this may prevent from indexing raw data by Google)

2.4.2

• Fixed: error with uploading PNG files when EXIF extension is available
• Fixed: invalid encoding of UTF-8 characters in localized texts
• Fixed: the plugin cannot be deleted in WordPress 4.6 and above

2.4.1

• Fixed: bug in emoticons posting

2.4

• Option to pass simple arrays in shortcode, array format: {element1,element2,…,elementN}
• Option to generate a sound when user is mentioned using @UserName notation
• Added 20 new sounds to use in notifications
• Option to enable a sound notification when user joins or leaves the channel
• “User has joined/left the channel” notifications
• Shift+ENTER moves the cursor to the new line in multiline mode, ENTER sends the message
• Fixed: unwanted emoticons displayed after double quote
• Fixed: errors with sending images when there is no Exif PHP module installed
• Fixed: jQuery up to version 3.1 is now supported
• Fixed: bug in “Powered by” feature

2.3

• Emoticons layer expands to the top
• Three new emoticon sets
• Debug mode option (easier to report errors)
• Option to select which user roles have to be hidden in the users list
• Allow to use extended range of letters (Unicode characters) in username
• Shift+ENTER moves to the new line in message input field (when multiline mode is not enabled)
• Fixed: anonymous users are sometimes on the users list when “WP users only” option is selected
• Fixed: logged in user becomes anonymous after some inactivity time (especially on mobile devices)
• Fixed: no scrollbar on users list
• Fixed: /whois command does not accept usernames with spaces, now such names can be typed in double quotes

2.2

• Clickable usernames on the users list
• Additional filter that allows to filter outgoing links
• Hiding anonymous users on the users list
• Option to give access to the chat for specific user roles only
• Option to make the chat read-only for selected user roles
• Option to give ban and/or delete permissions to each user role separately
• Option to auto-hide users list on the narrow screens
• Messages timestamp split to two spans – date and time
• Disabled horizontal scrollbar on users list
• Improved safety during deletion of images uploaded by the chat
• Fixed: word wrapping of the long messages
• Fixed: users list moves to the bottom on narrow screens

2.1

• Read-only mode for anonymous users
• Option to delete a channel on the channels list
• Option to show errors log (for support usage only)
• Option to display country flag, city and country code of users on the list
• Option allowing to mention someone – after username is clicked “@UserName:” text is inserted into message input field
• Auto-scroll on start-up
• Support for links in “youtu.be” format
• Added animation during auto-scroll
• Fixed: bugs after upgrade to WordPress 4.4
• Fixed: problem with auto-scroll when padding is set on .wcMessages div
• Fixed: error messages in case of connection problems
• Fixed: bug that caused lack of the text coloring in some cases

2.0.1

• Fixed bug with rendering chat shortcode

2.0

• most of the code has been rewritten, database structure has been changed significantly
• performance optimizations (on average 20-50%), less CPU usage
• option to force users to enter their name on first visit
• option to show a button that enables to insert an emoticon into message
• added options to set font size, font color and background color on various elements of the chat
• option for users to change text color (in Customize box)
• option to choose which user role can delete messages or ban users
• links to YouTube videos displayed as the video player
• images auto-correction of orientation (when EXIF data is available)
• progress bar when selecting an image (or taking a picture) to upload
• options to adjust images size limit, resizing dimensions, thumbnails dimensions
• option to adjust attachments size limit
• option to adjust width of the users list
• shift + enter sends message in multiline mode
• ban button next to delete message button
• option to set duration of the automatic bans
• option to set duration of the bans in flood control
• ability to pass all shortcode options to the widget
• added new shortcuts to few emoticons
• option to configure text to use as a replacement word in bad words filter
• improved mechanism of WPuser-message connection, link to WP users stays valid even if the display name has been changed
• completely new settings page
• technical improvements (switched to DI container)
• Lightweight AJAX engine is now the default (in fresh installation)
• fixed: auto-changing user name in all messages when WordPress user logs out
• fixed: scrolling on iPhone (Safari)

1.8

• private chat rooms (secured by password)
• channels limit for an user
• shortcode “wise-chat-channel-stats” displaying channel statistics
• option to hide time on messages
• option to display elapsed time in messages
• progress bar when sending messages with attachments or images
• attachments uploader
• usability enhancements
• new mechanism of assigning users to channels
• showing user name also for logged in users (a label above the input field)
• option to reset the counter used to generate anonymous username
• fixed: issues with custom configuration when using shortcodes
• fixed: auto-cleaning per channel (using shortcode only)
• fixed: issues with ping internal messages
• fixed: changing name of an user now refreshes it in all messages
• fixed: issues with opening hours control
• fixed: duplicated messages in some rare cases

1.7

• Custom CSS styles setting
• Checking for new messages right after sending a message (the delay eliminated)
• Messages backup feature (for each channel)
• Messages auto-clean after defined time
• /whois command for getting details of users
• Option to choose location of the input controls (input field, submit button, customizations panel): bottom or top
• Option to choose messages order: newest on the top or on the bottom
• More intelligent auto-scrolling of messages (scrolls only if scrollbar is on the bottom)
• New messages notification in browser’s title when window is hidden
• New messages notification by playing a sound
• Flood control feature
• Additional “displayname” variable in user name link templates, “username” fixed to truly show user’s name
• Chat opening hours / days
• Counter of current users
• Limit of users per channel

1.6

• Three themes
• Twitter hash tags support
• Custom filters (filtering texts, hyperlinks, e-mails and phrases that match a regular expressions)
• Chat window title
• Advanced configuration (AJAX engine and refresh time)
• Lightweight AJAX engine

1.5

• Posting images (stored in Media Library)
• Images uploader – posting pictures from camera (in case of mobile devices) or from local storage (in case of desktop)
• List of users in the side bar
• Flexible messages list on small devices
• Option to moderate channels by removing single messages

1.4

• Configurable width and height of the chat window
• Channels statistics on settings page, including message and active users counters
• User name to link conversion template
• Emoticons support
• Auto-ban feature
• Multiline messages support

1.3

• Messages history (using arrow keys) in input field
• Posting links in chat messages
• Linking WP user name to the author page
• Fixed bug with duplicated messages in chat window
• Message submit button
• Rearrangements of the settings page
• Language localization of end-user messages and texts
• Timezones support
• Access only for logged in WP users

1.2

• Wise Chat widget
• Option to allow unlogged user change his/her name
• Option to show user’s name
• Bans control on settings page
• Changing text color of a logged in user

1.1

• Minor rearrangements of the settings panel

1.0

• Initial version