Title: Chat
Author: WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform
Published: <strong>May 2, 2011</strong>
Last modified: December 7, 2015

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# chat

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

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

## Description

This plugin has been closed as of April 20, 2018 and is not available for download.
This closure is permanent. Reason: Author Request.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/76779d1db314d6a573f73bd98a0263a12c810937545f66c542d6af1966619cc4?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Price little crazy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/price-little-crazy/)󠁿

 [Yura Shkoda](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yurashkoda/) March 26, 2017 1 reply

Good plugin, simple, practical, but… price…

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/497ed95550c27884491bd05ce0cdaf7e0b086ee0ae63ef105333d1856800e8f9?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[No Response](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-response-11/)󠁿

 [DannyvanHolten](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dannyvanholten/) March 15, 2017
1 reply

I am not upgrading to the premium plug-in because I have no trust in the way WPMU
deals with the support on this plug-in. I have asked for PHP7 support a long time(
even proposed the fix) and still nothing happened with it. Very weird for a professional
party.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bed08d18cac583c80eb931c9fba79f3d806c941f7fa5c91849888e4c0ce8a3a6?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great, but what about cellphone use](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-but-what-about-cellphone-use/)󠁿

 [growinspirit](https://profiles.wordpress.org/growinspirit/) February 8, 2017 1
reply

The chat works great on my website! But I tried it with my cellphone and the chatbox
is too big for the cellphone screen.. is there a way to fix this?

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/be28310f6be1716630f5d84b9401cf4b35424817f71d82b73ad73883fa5cb3a0?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Cool!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cool-447/)󠁿

 [Genice](https://profiles.wordpress.org/genice/) September 3, 2016 1 reply

Thx!)

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/71c4804371adf503552b71b24a242e8b09d2d2ae1b7eb4c394e9b14e6cd2bb9e?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Nice but unusable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nice-but-unusable/)󠁿

 [lucenty](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lucenty/) September 3, 2016

While testing with a couple of user I observed slow down of server due to – I suppose–
many AJAX requests.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3d321f6c3096c7a480aebe426a535ece0bd788e6607236da2bb809a69b659464?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Waste of resources](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/waste-of-resources/)󠁿

 [tempacc1234](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tempacc1234/) September 3, 2016

This plugin will flood your website with ajax requests every second making it unusable
unless you own a powerful server. Screenshots here and here. Tested in a VPS with
only 1 user connected, imagine what would happen on an active website with a few
users connected at the same time. I didn’t have this problem with other chat plugins
tested in the exact same environment. It will eventually take your website down,
eat all your hosting resources and it will cause problems with your hosting provider.
It’s a self-inflicted DDoS.

 [ Read all 32 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/chat/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ WPMU DEV – Your All-in-One WordPress Platform ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmudev/)

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **N/A**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.3.34**
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/chat/advanced/)