Stan Ozier

Yes, agreed. This is kind of a best practice in WP.
Also, a bit more information about what is “visitor recognition” would be nice.
Thanks.

Version 0.5.0 (February 2021) still requires this patch if you want to disable the chat when logged in as an admin.

Version 0.4.3 (Sept 2020) still doesn’t support this ??

Code patch still needs to be applied.

FYI version 0.4.2 has just been released and still does not support this option.
So you may want to modify you tawkto.php file again after updating the plugin (same modification on same line as above).

I quickly hacked into the code to disable this, by editing file tawkto.php, starting in line 260 :

public function print_embed_code() {
	if ( current_user_can('administrator') ) {
		return false;
	}
	[...]
}

Hopefully offical developpers will add this as an option at some point.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Stan Ozier.

Still works fine. Incognito, cache cleared, different browser…
I can still access wp-login.php directly.