ChopItUp Live Chat with Firebase

Description

ChopItUp Live Chat with Firebase is a premium widget that enables fast stable and intuitive live chat for WordPress posts using the powerful Firebase service Live chat can be installed VERY EASILY on your site via any new or old Firebase backend It serves as a way to enable open-ended and free flowing communication in order to create communities around a post a site or blog Not only is it easy to setup and easy to use it taps into the way people already use real-time communication as a way of creating online communities around ideas and interests We guarantee great support to help with installation or operational issues Simply install the plugin and drag the widget to your desired position then viola you now have live chat NEW FEATURE SHORT CODE FUNCTIONALITY a short code can now be inserted in a post to determine whether that particular post will have chat or not NUMEROUS bug fixes and updates pertaing to Firebase backend IMPORTANT ChopItUp Live Chat with Firebase only works for WordPress 4 1 and later versions FEATURES Very intuitive fast and stable chat built on modern mainstream technology Desktop and mobile enabled Live-chat for posts tabs for users and chats are used to navigate a very easy to use widget Public and private chat features Typing indicator available The widget can be positioned on the sidebar or at the bottom footer like a traditional chat box User search available Can work fine with a free Firebase account Automatic anonymity unless user signs in on site Online Offline indicator for users User search available Compatible with WordPress 4 1 and later Very clean and well documented code User names with join and leave capability Notifications sounds and badges Currenty online users are grouped together and easy to find Limitations Although the plugin works well on both positions in the sidebar and at the bottom of a page as a traditional chat box there have been situations where a A theme s sidebar is thin and the widget is not very aesthetically pleasing b When positioned at the bottom the chat box s colors may be off This situation where one positioning option is better than another is a rarity generally the plugin works well in both positions How it works This plugin links your Firebase application to your WordPress backend Once the linking has been done installation positioning and inserting configuration data the widget will appear in posts Chat public and private messages are linked to the current post s ID and the conversations can then center around that post and it s ideas Intuitive installation and functionality Installation of the plugin is a straightforward affair activate the ChopItUp Live Chat with Firebase plugin and then go to ChopItUp Live Chat Settings Enter your Firebase application s settings That is it you are done with installation and you and your users visitors can starting on posts What tech do we use The plugin itself is very light because the heavy lifting is done by the Firebase backend The plugin uses a combination of jQuery and traditional javascript to navigate through the tabs tabs that enable private and public chat Javascript-enabled input is sanitized to avoid cross-site attacks and malicious injections A free Firebase account comes with a maximum of 100 concurrent connections to get more capacity one would have to go premium This plugin uses Firebase DOMPurify and the WordPress API in conjunction with our custom PHP and Javascript This plugin is VERY light The thinking behind ChopItUp Live Chat with Firebase Chat has been a staple of web-based communication since the rise of usage of the internet by the general public in the early 1990s earlier implementations were naturally a lot cruder most centering around applets or getting the browser to recognize a new mime type in order to support an external implementation of chat Browsers nowadays come with incredible capabilities and support out the box and as such some of the most advanced light and stable implementations of chat can be done fairly quickly and easily The rise of cloud services has also lightened the load so that developers can work on creative aspects of products and leave the basic functionality to cloud services The fact that heavy duty logic happens on the the cloud means that small sites don t have to deal with the heavy duty stuff dedicated to the cloud Javascript has become a mature language that is capable of doing things that had long been ascribed to other compiled programming languages this maturity has given leeway to create better products WordPress is now running on 30 of all websites in a way it has become a kind of web operating system This means that it has become unavoidable and thinking about creating new products and dedicated implementations of existing products for WordPress is imperative The combination of better browsers cloud mature Javascript and a web dominated by a very powerful WordPress was fertile soil to create ChopItUp Live Chat with Firebase a product that we believe is not only extremely utilitarian but timely as well PLEASE NOTE This plugin is designed to work with Firebase without it it cannot function