Settings Page
You can find the plugin settings at WordPress Dashboard > Settings > BP Better chat. Most of the settings are optional as plugin will use the default values but you can change the plugin behaviour as per your needs.
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General
From the WP dashboard, go to Settings -> BP Better Chat -> General.
- Enable Better User Chat Widget: You can enable or disable the chat widget from here.
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Chat
- Allow user to block friends: You can enable or disable block friend feature.
- Show user “Away” after: You can change user’s “away” time. This is the idle time after which a user is shown “away” – usually signified with yellow color band.
- Show user “Offline” after: It’s the time after which user will be marked “offline” when there is no activity from their end.
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Emojis
- Enable Emojis: Enable or disable emojis with this setting.
- Enable Recent Emojis: Enable or disable Recent Emoji’s option.
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Media
- Enable Media upload/share: Enable if you want users to be able to share images/videos with each other.
- Max media upload size: Set min/max upload file size.
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Appearance
- Theme: Select the theme which suits the best according your site.
- Custom CSS: Write some custom CSS code to modify the chat widget here.
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Advanced
- Chat refresh interval: From here you can set the chat refresh interval (in milliseconds). Every this interval, the chat widget checks for new messages.
- Status refresh interval: From here you can set user status refresh interval time. Every this interval, the chat widget checks for the friends chat interval.
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