Hi again Ehsan,
Thanks for the suggestions — good news on both:
- Full-screen by default. Instead of using the floating popup and clicking the expand icon each time, you can place a permanent full-screen messenger on its own page:
Create a new page (e.g. “Messages”).
Add the “User Inbox” block and enable its Full Screen option in the block settings (or just use the shortcode [better_messages full_screen=”1″]).
Add that page to your menu.
This renders the messenger full-screen with no expand button needed.
- Self-hosting emojis. This is already built in — you don’t need to edit emojis.php. Go to Better Messages → Settings → Privacy → Emoji Delivery and switch it to Self-hosted. The plugin downloads the emoji images to your own server (wp-content/uploads/better-messages/emoji/) and serves them locally instead of from the CDN. (If you don’t see this option, update to the latest version.)
Let me know if anything’s unclear!
Thanks!