Website User Chat

  • The website, Patriot, is designed as a platform for Patriots to come together and share ideas, now via a bbpress forum. I would, however, like to add a floating button for users to interact via chatbox, (preferably via ajax).

    I have tried the following:

    Wise Chat — no floating buttons
    WP User Chat — Widget not working

    other chat plugins have paywalls or hidden fees, and I am not prepared to pay for this.

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress topic

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    If no floating button is the only hindrance, that likely could be fixed with some custom CSS. How is the chat box normally invoked by default?

    For example, let’s say it’s a plain old link. The link can be CSS styled to look like a button. It can be made to float by applying position: fixed; style to the link element.

    Thread Starter couvscorner

    (@couvscorner)

    Wise Chat displayed it as an embedded box via a shortcode.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    So it’s presumably an iframe element on the page. You cannot fix the position of individual elements in the iframe, but you could fix the entire iframe in place on the viewport. Place the necessary CSS in the Additional CSS customizer section.

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