Ismail

<p>bbPress Messages – Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.</p>
<h3>What’s New in 2.0?</h3>
<h4>Fully Optimized</h4>
<p>Now bbPress Messages loads faster due to optimization and messages caching.</p>
<h4>Background Schedules</h4>
<p>For better experience and load time, now the tasks are processed in the background. Tasks that would take some time to finish such as email notifications, after send events, cleanup schedules and others.</p>
<h4>Translation ready</h4>
<p>Now you can use the languages files to <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers" rel="nofollow ugc">translate</a> bbPress Messages to your language. You can also contribute your translations and <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/bbp-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">help translate this plugin</a>.</p>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<p>We’ve added couple shortcodes and rewrote older shortcodes, you can find out about shortcodes in the shortcodes tab in the settings page.</p>
<h4>Widgets</h4>
<p>We’ve redesigned the widgets for 2.0! Navigate to your dashboard and search for bbPM widgets now.</p>
<p>Other than that, bbPress Messages 2.0 is easy to extend, supports multisite installations, and we will be working on some free addons to extend its features and improve more. Please consult the project Github page <a href="https://github.com/elhardoum/bbp-messages" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/elhardoum/bbp-messages</a> to report a bug, contribute to the project or make suggestions.</p>
<p>If this is the first time you update, you should be migrating your older messages from the legacy database table to the new one. This could be done using the import tab in settings.</p>
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<p><em>More documentation coming soon..</em></p>
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bbPress Messages

Giving myself a review..
Works perfect, simple code, clean design, you can use this plugin with or without BuddyPress with no issues or conflicts.



simple and working

Works Fine but the text is written in hard. No translation possible. Not usable in my lang ! Too bad.

Front-end-pm is a very good alternative.

Translation impossible

I could customize the plugin via filters etc. Works good, so go ahead and install it. 
We translated the plugin ourself via PoEdit and we want to give that back.

Does what it says and very happy with it as a developer

bbPress Messages - Simple yet powerful private messaging system tailored for bbPress.

devpressfactory

<p>DevPress Factory Live Chat is a real-time chat plugin for WordPress, inspired by YouTube’s live chat design. It is ideal for live events, streaming, community websites, or any context where users need to communicate in real time.</p>
<p>The chat features a YouTube-style dark theme: inline messages with avatar, username, and text on the same row, online users displayed as chips/pills, and a rounded input bar with a send button. Fully optimized for both desktop and mobile devices.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Real-time public chat via AJAX polling (configurable refresh interval)</li>
<li>Private messaging between users with card-style popup notifications</li>
<li>Built-in emoji picker with 60 emojis</li>
<li>Word filter moderation with automatic asterisk replacement</li>
<li>User blocking directly from the chat or from the admin panel</li>
<li>Browser push notifications and email notifications for private messages</li>
<li>30 Google Fonts with live preview in the admin panel</li>
<li>Configurable login wall to restrict access to registered users only</li>
<li>One-click full chat history deletion from the admin panel</li>
<li>Separate size settings (height and width) for desktop and mobile</li>
<li>Compatible with shortcodes, Elementor, WPBakery, and Gutenberg blocks</li>
<li>Automatic cleanup of messages older than 30 days via WP-Cron</li>
</ul>


DevPress Factory Live Chat

Real-time live chat for WordPress with private messaging, emoji picker, moderation tools, and full mobile support.

bbPress Messages vs DevPress Factory Live Chat