PowieT

<p>This plugin includes a IRC chat system on a wordpress page or post. It makes<br />
usage of the coolsmile IRC applet. Just enter irc server, port and channels to join<br />
on the settings page. Include shortcode PIRC on a page and your chat is ready.</p>
<h4>Including:</h4>
<p>Coolsmile Chat Software</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Support Forum @ <a href="http://goo.gl/lfR7B" rel="nofollow ugc">powie.de</a></p>
<h3>Remove plugin</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
<li>Delete plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<h3>To do</h3>
<p>Maybee Translations. Does someone wants to help?</p>


Powie's IRC Chat

Sudar Muthu

<p>Well WP-IRC Plugin (for lack of a better name 😉 ) can fetch the number of users online in any IRC channel and can be scheduled to auto refresh it every x.minutes. The count thus fetched can be displayed in the sidebar of your blog using a sidebar widget provided by the Plugin.</p>
<p>More details about the Plugin can be found at the <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-irc" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugins Home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Translation</h3>
<p>The pot file is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.</p>
<h3>Development and Support</h3>
<p>The development of the Plugin happens over at <a href="https://github.com/sudar/wp-irc" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>. If you want to contribute to the Plugin, fork the <a href="https://github.com/sudar/wp-irc" rel="nofollow ugc">project at github</a> and send me a pull request.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with either git or Github then refer to this <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/contributing-to-project-hosted-in-github" rel="nofollow ugc">guide to see how fork and send pull request</a>.</p>
<p>Support for the Plugin is available from the <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-irc" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin’s home page</a>. If you have any questions or suggestions, do leave a comment there or contact me in <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">twitter</a>.</p>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create a settings page where people can test connection</li>
<li>Add support for shortcode</li>
<li>Add support for alerts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Stay updated</h3>
<p>I would be posting updates about this Plugin in my <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">blog</a> and in <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>. If you want to be informed when new version of this Plugin is released, then you can either subscribe to this <a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/feed" rel="nofollow ugc">blog’s RSS feed</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/sudarmuthu" rel="nofollow ugc">follow me in Twitter</a>.</p>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-irc" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin home page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">Other Plugins by the author</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Readme Generator</h3>
<p>This Readme file was generated using <a href='http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpress/wp-readme' rel="nofollow ugc">wp-readme</a>, which generates readme files for WordPress Plugins.</p>


WP IRC

Retrieves the number of people who are online in an IRC Channel, which can be displayed in the sidebar using a widget.

Powie's IRC Chat vs WP IRC