When You Need to Add Your Own Unique User Avatar

One of the Key features a chatter is looking for is adding an avatar next to his name.
RumbleTalk gives you the ability to change custom and control your user avatar.

In general, although they look the same, there are several types of avatars.
They are associated with the login option. let’s see what the options are.

User Avatar Default

Guest and Admins by default have default chat avatar. This avatar is showing when login in as guests or as admins. When changing the default avatar is needed, the chat owner can do it using CSS (it is simple, no worries).

To change the avatar, open the chat settings, go to the advanced design, click on the CSS icon and add the CSS code to your preferred chat. Note, you can change the avatar in both web view and mobile view. To see what you need to add, please click on the web/mobile link and go to number 1 tip in this links.

chat css avatar change

1) If you do not have your own image on the web, you can upload to the chat your image and right click on it to get the avatar link.
2) You can also change the default admin text color (by default admins are logged in with red colour).

How to change a managed user or admin avatar

Managed users are participants who log in with a username and password. These login credentials are created by the group chat owner, by the Register option or via the API when you sync your own userbase to the chat room.

Administrators, once created by the group chat owner, are given moderating authority. They can delete messages and disconnect or ban unruly users.

As a group chat owner, log in to your admin panel and select -> settings -> “User”.

chat settings

Add a new user with avatar

From there you can view the field to add your own image. This occurs in one of two ways.

  1. Upload Image – upload an image from your computer (recommended)
  2. Image URL – directly copy and paste an image URL

The default user avatar setting is 35×35 pixels but this can be changed using CSS.

Social avatar users

When a group chat owner allows users to log in with their social credentials, they will show in the chat with there social avatar (facebook or twitter).

See how it looks like!

See below how a user avatar user is displayed in the group chat.

user avatar in group chat

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New Chat Features : User List Collapse & More

We are happy to share with you some new features like User List Collapse in our latest RumbleTalk release. We will start rolling them out gradually over the next month.

So what’s new?

  • User List Collapse
  • Mobile Fixes for iPhone
  • Improved WebRTC for Live Video/Audio
  • Image Auto Resizing
  • Register Bug Fixes
  • Improved White Label Offering

User List Collapse

Users have been requesting this feature for a long time and we are happy to announce that it is ready! User list collapse ensures that customers can add a chat room to small spaces. It will allow chatters to control and collapse the users’ list option.

It has two main parts:

  1. Chat Client
    In the chat client, you will see an additional icon that allows one to collapse the user’s list:
  2. Admin Panel
    Here, you can set the collapse option for admins only if you prefer:user list

Mobile iPhone fixes

We have also improved our mobile offering for iPhone users. We solved the main auto expand bug in iPhone as well as the private chat bug that prevented typing messages.

Improved WebRTC

We have reduced the waiting time for connecting calls

Image Auto Resizing

We added a new functionality that will reduce an image uploaded to the chat with no quality reduction. This will improve the loading time of images shared during any conversation.

If you have any questions regarding these features, you can contact us via Support.

WordPress Group Chat – Plugin Features

We are happy to introduce the new RumbleTalk WordPress group chat plugin. As always, we are constantly working hard to simplify the plugin’s implementation and management, as well as include features that we release on the global service to the WP plugin.

The changes to the plugin are divided into several aspects:

  1. UX
  2. Keywords
  3. Multiple Chat Rooms
  4. Technical

UX Changes

The WP plugin has evolved dramatically, but some questions and requests from our users kept persisting. We tried to answer most of these using a smart UX design.

One question we kept on getting was the option to upgrade to a multiple chats account. To fix this, we put a large orange button on top of the chat with a clear indication of the current account status (Number of Seats, Rooms, and Keywords).

Wordpress group chat settings

Adding the Keywords Feature

Recently, we released a new feature called InText Keywords. Since then, we have received many questions regarding the option to add it to the WP plugin. We are pleased to announce that it is now there! Also, note that the Keywords option is shared among all rooms, so in the event that you have more than one room and have you created an InText keywords list, it will be applied to all rooms in your account.

Easy Setting to Add More Than One Chat Room

The need to add more rooms while working with the plugin was often a question posed to our support team. We updated the plugin to make it easy to add more and more rooms and see each room with a clear view.

A single Room Settings and editing

Charge Users for Entering the Chat

This is another feature that we’ve been working on behind the scenes. We get a lot of comments from you guys that we should add a monetization option. So, we did. Currently, there are two ways to monetize for entering the chat room.

The first one is to put an entrance fee to your group chat or expert’s chat. To do that, just simply choose from paid group chat or paid expert’s chat. Any paid chat type means that it’s monetized.

wordpress group chat

You can set your fees on the “Monetize” section of your admin panel. Just click on “Monetize Settings.” Then, set your fees and make sure that you’re charging for entrance. Also, save your changes before you go.

wordpress group chat

The second one is to add a subscription fee. This is great for membership chats and closed communities. Subscription fees are less hectic than entrance fees because members pay monthly or annually. For instance, they don’t need to extend every minute or hour.

This option works the same as the entrance fee option. The only difference here is that you choose the subscription option. That’s basically it!

WordPress Group Chat Technical Changes

We have implemented many technical changes behind the scenes. For example, you may notice that the folder structure has changed. We’ve made these changes to adapt to the most recent WP plugin instructions and recommendations.

If you need to step-by-step instructions on how to add our WordPress group chat service to your site, see our instructions here.

To download the RumbleTalk WordPress group chat plugin, please go to the WP plugin website.