Tag: wordpress

How to setup a secure video chat on WordPress

Posted on by octavian

In this article we are going to learn how to setup a secure video chat with WordPress and the Community Pro video chat plugin in four easy steps. Step 1: Make sure you have a media server First, in order to run a video chat service on any website you need a media server. Think of the media server as the home of the video chat software. If you have a VPS all you need to do is install a media server software like Red5 and you’re all set. If you don’t have a VPS you can purchase one with Red5 pre-installed from just $15/month here. Step 2: Get the software Download the video chat software (you can try it for[…]

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New Pay Per Session Video Chat Plugin For WordPress

Posted on by Lucian

Hello everyone, We are actively improving our software based on your suggestions and over the past few months we have been very busy building solutions on top of AVChat. Requested by many of you, today we are happy to announce the launch of our NEW Pay Per Session plugin for WordPress. While in the past we have tried our best to cover this topic by writing articles such as How to Build a Paid Video Chat Membership Website with WordPress, AVChat 3 and PayPal these solutions relied on third party plugins and left our clients with alot of setting up to do. We were not satisfied with such complex solutions and we always felt we could do much better. So, with our new plugin you can forget[…]

Major Update to Our Video Chat Plugins for WordPress

Posted on by Lucian

Hello! I’m Lucian and I’m now responsible for integrating AVChat with WordPress and all other CMS’ AVChat integrates with. I have recently taken on the task from Radu. We decided to start the year with a huge overhaul for our WordPress video chat plugins. We took a good look at the highest rated WordPress plugins and made a promise to reflect things we’ve seen and loved into our own plugins. Therefore, we present you with two major upgrades that will ease the AVChat administration and give your WordPress website users and admins a much better experience: Video Chat Plugin Standard for WordPress, version 2.0 Video Chat Plugin PRO for WordPress, version 3.0 The Standard plugin can be downloaded for free from wordpress.org or from your own WordPress backend[…]

New AVChat Plugin Pro 2.1 (build 599) for WordPress

Posted on by Radu

Hello everyone, We’ve just released a new version, 2.1 (build 599) for AVChat Plugin Pro for WordPress 3.x. This version (2.1) is coming with new features & permissions and some small fixes. New Features & Improvements: WordPress 3.9 supported Improved the design of the AVChat 3 Settings & Permissions page, making it more user friendly Now the AVChat Plugin Pro supports WordPress multisite on subdomains Better integration with BuddyPress: now AVChat Plugin PRO detects if BuddyPress is active across the WordPress multisite Admin can easily change the Audio / Video Quality Profile, from WordPress backend Exposed the setting which allows the admin to set user’s webcam to open automatically when each he joins, together with the one which allows user to start viewing[…]

How to Build a Paid Video Chat Membership Website with WordPress, AVChat 3 and PayPal

Posted on by Radu

Hi everyone, Today I’ll show you how to set up a paid membership website using AVChat 3, WordPress, s2Member Framework for tracking membership and PayPal as a payment system. Apart from ads, memberships are a good source of revenue for sustaining a website. To show how much flexibility you have we’ve gone overboard and decided to build a website with 6 different user roles, 2 free and 4 of them will be paid. Each of them will have different permissions in line with their subscription plan. We’ve chosen the permissions for each user role so that: visitors are encouraged to register, registered members are encouraged to subscribe to a paid membership and paying members are encouraged to upgrade to a better plan.[…]

New AVChat Video Chat Plugin PRO build (2359) adds huge improvements

Posted on by octavian

We’ve just released a new version of our AVChat Video Chat Plugin PRO for WordPress and it adds a huge amount of fixes. We’re considering it the most stable build so far. The entire code has been reviewed and improved. We’ve also added proper support for multisite setups, more permissions and we’ve totally updated the documentation. Major improvements: We’ve moved the PRO plugin to a separate folder (wp-content/plugins/avchat-3-pro) so that the WP update mechanism does not confuse it with the Standard version available on wordpress.org We’ve added 8 new permissions that you can control for each user role: admin can kick, admin can ban, admins can view ips, admin can silence, admin can view private messages, admin can access the[…]

NEW! AVChat Video Chat Plugin for WordPress (build 2055)

Posted on by Stefan

Hello everyone, We are very proud to announce that AVChat is now compatible with HTML5 and you can now use the AVChat with iPad and iPhone. And because WordPress is the most used with this kind of devices, we just finished our first integration with the new video chat and we are releasing it for everybody to enjoy. In this new build, we also introduced some new enhancements, like: Never miss a new message from now. New browser tab notification lets you see how many new messages you received if you are in another browser tab. Added support for Administrators. Detect if the browser is mobile or desktop and if you installed the AVChat files into the plugin directory. Facebook[…]

Fixed bugs in AVChat Video Chat Plugin PRO for WordPress (build 1941)

Posted on by Stefan

Hello again, Just 2 days ago we released the improved version of AVChat Video Chat Plugin for WordPress and we were very proud. Today, we are just polishing the integration so that you could have the best experience.   We added the capability to show an error if you didn’t complete the installation instructions properly, Fixed the bug were the scripts were not found in the correct path As with this new version, you won’t see the  WordPress 2.8 integration kit anymore and there will be only the 3.x version in the archive. In this way it will be less confusion Removed the padding from the settings menu in WordPress so you can see more features on the page. Other[…]

Big Update to our AVChat Video Chat Plugin for WordPress (build 1925)

Posted on by Stefan

Hello everyone, I am glad to announce that we made some changes to our the WordPress plugin and fixed some bugs that didn’t allow the plugin to run quite as we hoped to. Without further ado , I will present the changes brought to the plugin: Added Facebook integration. Added iPad detection. Added lots of new features in WordPress backend. Added new “Visitors” column to better control what a visitor can have access to. Now the changes made to the background are made from the style.css and not from the WordPress backend settings. Fixed the bug “session already sent …”. Fixed the bug where guests can access the admin area of AVChat. Fixed the bug where the added user roles were not[…]