Thomas Lloancy

<p>ConnectSphere transforms your online courses with video, audio, chat, and screen-sharing sessions via WebRTC. It features a modern, secure, and optimized interface for up to 100 participants.</p>
<p><strong>Key features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Video, audio, public and private chat, screen sharing</li>
<li>Raise Hand button — participants can signal the host during live sessions</li>
<li>Live participant counter</li>
<li>Connection quality indicator (signal bars based on RTT and packet loss)</li>
<li>Dark and Light color themes — choose the one that fits your site design</li>
<li>Leave button — cleanly stops camera/mic and releases all WebRTC resources</li>
<li>Creating a room automatically joins it — no extra click needed</li>
<li>Configurable STUN/TURN servers for optimal connectivity behind NAT and firewalls</li>
<li>Fully translatable (i18n-ready, French translation included)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Tested up to WordPress 7.0.</li>
</ul>
<h3>New Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Participant counter</strong>: The participants panel now shows a live count of people in the room.</li>
<li><strong>Raise Hand</strong>: New button lets participants signal the host. A hand icon (✋) appears on the video bubble and in the participant list for all attendees.</li>
<li><strong>Connection quality indicator</strong>: Three-bar signal indicator in the control bar, powered by WebRTC <code>getStats()</code> (RTT + packet loss).</li>
<li><strong>Light theme</strong>: New color theme option in Settings > ConnectSphere > Room Appearance. Dark (default) or Light — with a live preview in the settings page.</li>
<li><strong>Leave button</strong>: Cleanly stops camera/mic tracks, releases all WebRTC handles, and resets the room state. Previously, leaving was only possible by closing the tab.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-join after create</strong>: Creating a room now immediately joins it. No need to click “Join” separately.</li>
</ul>
<h3>UX & Architecture</h3>
<ul>
<li>Status ticker now spans full width below the control buttons, no longer squeezed to a few pixels.</li>
<li>Join logic extracted into <code>performJoin()</code> to eliminate duplicated code between the Create and Join flows.</li>
<li>Professional Janus server installation service documented in FAQ and admin settings page.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Bug Fixes & i18n</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed missing <code>load_plugin_textdomain()</code> — PHP-side translations now load correctly.</li>
<li>Fixed broken ICE retry paths that referenced undeclared <code>videoroomHandle</code> / <code>textroomHandle</code> variables (now correctly using <code>videoroom</code> / <code>textroom</code>).</li>
<li>Fixed notification sound using a site-root absolute path; now uses the correct plugin URL via <code>connectSphere.plugin_url</code>.</li>
<li>Removed dead <code>wp_ajax_connectsphere_join_room</code> registration (endpoint was never called from the front-end).</li>
<li>Fixed PHP fatal error risk: apostrophe inside single-quoted string in capabilities check.</li>
<li>All remaining hard-coded French strings in PHP and JS replaced with English base strings wrapped in i18n functions.</li>
<li>Added missing CSS classes: <code>.unread-badge</code>, <code>.new-message-highlight</code>, <code>.disabled</code>, <code>.hand-raised</code>.</li>
<li><code>plugin_url</code> added to localized JS data; removed unused <code>ajax_url</code> / <code>nonce</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.0</h4>
<p>(2026-04-25)</p>
<h3>User Experience & Admin Ergonomics</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortcode Quick-Copy</strong>: Added a dedicated “Usage” section in the settings page featuring a one-click copy button for the <code>[connectsphere_room]</code> shortcode.</li>
<li><strong>Copy Feedback</strong>: Integrated a visual “Copied!” confirmation using WordPress native Dashicons for a better user experience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Internal Logic & i18n</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>JS Dependency Update</strong>: Added <code>sprintf</code> to the <code>wp-i18n</code> imports in <code>connectsphere.js</code> to support complex dynamic translations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.0 (2026-04-24)</h4>
<h3>Internationalization (i18n) & Localization</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Full Multilingual Support</strong>: Added <code>Domain Path</code> for native translation.</li>
<li><strong>wp-i18n Integration</strong>: Scripts now explicitly depend on <code>wp-i18n</code> for secure string translation.</li>
<li><strong>String Standardization</strong>: All UI messages harmonized to English for global compatibility.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Improved Resilience & Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Aggressive Reconnection Logic</strong>: Reduced reconnection timeouts from 15 seconds to <strong>4 seconds</strong> for both <code>videoroom</code> and <code>textroom</code> plugins. This ensures much faster recovery after network drops.</li>
<li><strong>Enhanced Connection Stability</strong>: Refined the Janus initialization flow to handle session drops more proactively.</li>
<li><strong>Version Bump</strong>: Updated to 1.4.0 to force cache refreshing for all assets.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.1 (2026-04-24)</h4>
<h3>Sécurité & Stabilité</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Renforcement de la sécurité (Nonce)</strong> : Correction de la faille de vérification des jetons de sécurité dans l’administration. Désormais, les réglages sont protégés par <code>check_admin_referer</code> pour prévenir les attaques CSRF.</li>
<li><strong>Optimisation du chargement des scripts</strong> : Les fichiers JS (Janus, adapter.js) et CSS ne sont plus chargés sur tout le site. Ils sont désormais injectés uniquement sur les pages utilisant le shortcode <code>[connectsphere_room]</code>, améliorant drastiquement les performances du site.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Interface & Responsive</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Full Responsive Design</strong> : Refonte complète du CSS pour mobile et tablette. La grille vidéo et la barre de contrôle s’adaptent désormais parfaitement aux petits écrans.</li>
<li><strong>Z-Index Fix</strong> : Ajustement de la profondeur de l’interface pour garantir la visibilité des menus de navigation WordPress au-dessus du salon vidéo.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0 (2026-04-23)</h4>
<h3>UI Overhaul, Ad-Free & CSS Refactoring</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Removed all integrated advertisements</strong>: Banners and marketing popups are now gone for a 100% professional experience.</li>
<li><strong>New Activity Log Ticker</strong>: Replaced intrusive “Toast” notifications with a sleek, terminal-style status bar in the control panel.</li>
<li><strong>Cyber-Terminal Aesthetics</strong>: Implemented scrolling marquee effects for system messages to prevent blocking the video grid.</li>
<li><strong>CSS Refactoring</strong>: Completely reorganized the stylesheet. Cleaned up legacy notification styles and unminified key components for better maintainability.</li>
<li><strong>Layout Stabilization</strong>: Fixed the 100vw horizontal overflow bug and optimized control bar responsiveness using modern Flexbox.</li>
<li><strong>Cleanup</strong>: Removed unused DOM manipulation logic from the JS core to improve performance.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.2.0</h4>
<h3>Enhanced screen-sharing support with explicit media direction</h3>
<ul>
<li>Replaced generic <code>media: { audio: true, video: true }</code> with precise recvonly settings.</li>
<li>Now explicitly sets <code>audioRecv: true</code> and <code>videoRecv: true</code> while disabling local capture.</li>
<li>Ensures compatibility with system audio during screen sharing.</li>
<li>Follows Janus Gateway’s recommended pattern for subscriber answer creation. </li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>6.9 Ok</li>
<li>A little too much advertisings </li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.9</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed textroom error (error_code: 422) by adding a 500ms delay for the join request and handling specific retries.</li>
<li>Improved connection management with a 30-second keep-alive interval and progressive retry delays (15s, 30s, 60s).</li>
<li>Public messages are now visible to all participants with username, date, time, and content.</li>
<li>Resolved connection errors (DTLS alert, ICE disconnected) with better handle management.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.8</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed textroom errors (error_code: 415) for join and message requests by using textroom.data() to send via the WebRTC data channel.</li>
<li>Public messages are now visible to all participants with username, date, time, and content.</li>
<li>Improved connection error handling (DTLS alert, connection loss) with 15-second reconnection delays.</li>
<li>Resolved PeerConnection errors (error_code: 416) by properly detaching handles.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.7</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed textroom errors (error_code: 415) for join and message requests by using the correct format (textroom: ‘join’, textroom: ‘message’).</li>
<li>Public messages are now visible to all participants with username, date, time, and content.</li>
<li>Improved connection error handling (DTLS alert, connection loss) with increased reconnection delays to 15 seconds.</li>
<li>Resolved PeerConnection errors (error_code: 416) by properly detaching handles.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.6</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed chat issue: public messages are now visible to all participants with username, date, time, and content.</li>
<li>Resolved textroom errors (error_code: 413) by correcting the format of join and message requests.</li>
<li>Improved connection error handling (DTLS alert, connection loss).</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed PHP syntax error in connectsphere.php (line 84).</li>
<li>Improved message handling to include username, date, time, and content.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed chat issue: public messages are now visible to all with username, date, time, and content.</li>
<li>Improved message styles for better readability.</li>
<li>Fixed textroom connection errors (error_code: 415).</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed chat styling for a dark icy background and improved text readability.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.2</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added specific CSS styles for the settings page (admin.php?page=connectsphere).</li>
<li>Added dynamic resizing of input fields.</li>
<li>Fixed issue with CSS styles not applying on the settings page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added STUN/TURN server configuration in settings.</li>
<li>Improved settings interface with an icy blue theme.</li>
<li>Added an animated background with connected spheres.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial release with WebRTC, chat, and integrated marketing.</li>
</ul>


ConnectSphere

ConnectSphere transforms your online courses with video, audio, chat, and screen-sharing sessions via WebRTC. With proper configured Janus server.

Rank Math SEO

<h3>Get your website’s pages, and content crawled immediately! Use the Instant Indexing plugin to beat your competition and rank higher.</h3>
<p>★★★★★</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Google recommends that you use the Indexing API ONLY for Job Posting and Live Streaming websites. However, it works on any type of website and many of our users have seen great results already. Please proceed with caution.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Whether you are a novice blogger or a seasoned SEO – you know the importance of getting into the Google index. It is the very first step before your website can see any organic traffic coming from Google or any other search engine.</p>
<p>If your pages don’t get indexed, your website is essentially invisible to Google and all the visitors – visitors that would otherwise “see” your website in the search engines.</p>
<p>So, it is pretty important that your new content gets crawled/indexed fast, and it is equally important for your already published content to get updated in Google as well.</p>
<p>How do you do one or the other? Or, how about doing them both?</p>
<p><strong>Enter the Instant Indexing plugin by Rank Math</strong></p>
<p>When you publish new content or update old content on your WordPress website, the Instant Indexing plugin sends a crawl request to Google using the Google Indexing API.</p>
<p>The result? <strong>Almost immediate indexing of your content</strong>. <a href="https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/#proof" rel="nofollow ugc">Here is an example</a>.</p>
<p>There are a lot of plus points of having your content instantly crawled and indexed by the search engines, but, here are a few major advantages of using the Instant Indexing plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Rank faster</strong> – Have that awesome content you know users will like? Get it in front of your audience faster.</li>
<li>Increase your chances of ranking above your competition</li>
<li>Keep search results up-to-date</li>
<li>One-time Setup</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Submissions</strong></li>
<li>Manual Submissions</li>
<li>Excludes Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Send request to remove Post from Google SERPs</li>
<li>Get Current Post Status</li>
<li>Compatible with Any SEO WordPress Plugin</li>
<li>Bulk Submissions (Up to 100 URLs)</li>
<li>Completely FREE.</li>
</ul>
<p>There is just no reason not to give it a try.</p>
<h3>ABOUT THE DEVELOPER</h3>
<p>The Instant Indexing plugin is created by the same brains that are behind the popular <a href="https://rankmath.com/wordpress/plugin/seo-suite/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rank Math SEO</a> plugin. We created the Instant Indexing plugin to get your SEO friendly content crawled quickly. This, in turn, helps you rank faster and higher than you would if you didn’t use these plugins.</p>
<h4>Getting Started:</h4>
<p><strong>1. Setting up the Plugin:</strong> Once you install and activate the Instant Indexing Plugin, head over to <strong>Rank Math > Instant Indexing</strong> and configure the settings.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://s.rankmath.com/groupfb" rel="nofollow ugc">2. Facebook Group:</a></strong> In this group, you will find the team of Rank Math SEO plugin fairly active and ready to answer your SEO related queries.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">3. User Documentation:</a></strong> Although Instant Indexing plugin is already easy to set up, we’ve put together tutorial to help you set up and get started.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://s.rankmath.com/wp-errors-fixes" rel="nofollow ugc">4. Fixing Common Errors:</a></strong> Sometimes avoidable or common issues can get you stuck. We’ve created a common guide where we discuss all the common issues and how to fix them.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://s.rankmath.com/support" rel="nofollow ugc">5. Support Ticket Forum:</a></strong> Our dedicated forum is where you can get support for any issues that you face with Instant Indexing. In the forum, we’ll also try to answer some SEO queries. User experience is important to us, and our aim is to answer all the queries on the forum in a timely manner.</p>
<p><strong><a href="#faq-header" rel="nofollow ugc">6. Frequently Asked Questions:</a></strong> Here we’ve answered the most commonly asked questions about Instant Indexing by Rank Math.</p>


Instant Indexing for Google

Despite my skepticism, the plugin actually works. You can send 200 pages for indexing daily. List!
Moreover, the plugin automatically submits each new page to the index.
Thanks to the developers for a free and incredibly useful plugin!

Really works!

a life saver in some cases

Nice plugin


Hello,



I'm using in a composer based WordPress stack and I'm having issues with with your plugin dependencies. Choosing Composer in the context of a WordPress plugin implies certain prerequisites and responsabilities. You have three (unique) solutions:




Provide your plugin without autoload/vendor via Composer (as Yoast or ACF do) so that a WordPress project managed with Composer (which is very often the case on “pro” sites using Bedrock or equivalent stacks) is aware of your dependencies/constraints and can warn the user of a compatibility problem or manage the constraints of other dependencies (the whole point of a dependency manager).



Prefix your dependencies (for example, with Yoast), which allows you to isolate your dependencies (by automatically modifying their namespace - PHPScoper does this very well) and avoid conflicts.



You may provide a bundled plugin, but composing it should only be used for its autoload functionality (no dependencies).




Your plugin is using very popular dependencies (Monolog, Guzzle) that may conflict with a user based installation or another plugin.



If you intend to use external dependencies, please do it the right way.






Don't use composer packages or namespace them

A very efficient yet simple plugin to take care of your indexing woos and helps get your content crawled by search bots instantly.

ConnectSphere vs Instant Indexing for Google