Title: Simple Chat
Author: Arthur Ronconi
Published: <strong>April 26, 2013</strong>
Last modified: July 15, 2016

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Simple Chat

 By [Arthur Ronconi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webarthur/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-chat.1.0.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-chat/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-chat/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-chat/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-chat/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/)

## Description

Just a simple chat based on google chat for logged users.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” — Da Vinci

Visit: http://araujo.cc/

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Admin page
 * [[
 * Chat
 * [[
 * Chat with another template

## Installation

Upload plugin to your blog, activate it, then click on the Settings > Simple-chat
on the menu.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[WARNING: Do not install this plugin it will kill your server](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/warning-do-not-install-this-plugin-it-will-kill-your-server/)󠁿

 [manm0untain](https://profiles.wordpress.org/manm0untain/) April 24, 2017

Installed this plugin to test. Test between 2 browsers did not work, just said both
parties were offline. Within 3 minutes the entire site was unresponsive. Contacted
my host, apparently massive server load from the 2 instances I had open in the 2
browsers. Took the whole site down for several hours. Spent the last 30 minutes 
now dealing with my hosting company, still have not gotten the site back online.
Very badly written and dangerous piece of code, use very much at your own risk.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[bandwidth exausting plugin – sends 10 requests per second](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bandwidth-exausting-plugin-sends-10-requests-per-second/)󠁿

 [Anonymous User 14978947](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anonymized-14978947/) 
February 17, 2017

Very inefficient implementation of a chat. Made my server go down every time a user
logged in and navigated to a frontend page.

 [ Read all 11 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Chat” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Arthur Ronconi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webarthur/)

[Translate “Simple Chat” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-chat)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-chat/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-chat/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-chat/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-chat/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0.4

 * Some CSS changes
 * Add notification sound effect

#### 1.0.4

 * Fix an anavar bug in lacking-faces-2009 template

#### 1.0.3

 * For not logged in users chat shouldn’t appears

#### 1.0.2

 * Comment some filters in admin mode

#### 1.0.1

 * Fix a BuddyPress bug removing a useless function
 * Some changes in the templates
 * Fix the avatars

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.6**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.5.33**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-chat/)
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[chat](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chat/)
   [facebook](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[google plus](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-plus/)
   [talk](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/talk/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-chat/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.1 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  4 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/?filter=1)

[Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Arthur Ronconi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webarthur/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-chat/)