[Plugin: Quick Chat] Nicknames instead of Usernames

Hi i have a website where only my and my friends are present. i need a plugin such that only me and my friends should be able to chat. Can some one help please

Thanks
Harsha

Just installed quick chat the latest version on the latest version of wordpress. I am having problem showing the chat on the sidebar to all the users. It seem quick chat is only working for admin users with my installation where I am trying to show it to all the registered users and subscribers as well. What am I missing here? Waiting for your quick response.

ibbrxx could you please start a new thread because your question is separate from this threads topic.

It is the same concern that I had in my previous case here. There are a lot of attacks on the website by people trying to login under the username “Admin”. Giving away the real username is like giving your bankcard without the pincode.
Admins and other editors should always be shown by their nickname and never by their username. Those people are the owners of the website and can make sure to only use a unique name. Also the nicknamens of Admins and editors should be protected by default so no others could use those names.

Yes I totally understand that it is scary to publish your login name, but if you have a decent password no one can log into your web site. I will take another look at the code to try to find different way on achieving uniqueness for subscribers, but so far I’ve found none other then login names. It would be possible to use nicknames for admin types of users (what ever roles you select in QC admin options) because those are users you trust.

Right now login names of registered users are protected, If Quick Chat goes to using nicknames I’ll protect nicknames.

Why is there an option to let users change their username, but no nickname support? Isn’t that the point of nicknames? I say you should get rid of the option to let users change their chat name and instead support nicknames.

For now I’m using javascript to change the username field and hide it, very hacky. What’s a better way to change to show nicknames? Hopefully without having to use this “change username” box.

Changing user name after chat is loaded goes trough different checks like duplicate user names inside single chat room, reserved user names check etc… When chat is first loaded I had to ensure that no duplicate names exist without running any special checks and using login name was obvious and gave most performance because chat doesn’t have to query database when setting initial user name.

I see that the feature of using nicknames is very important so I’ll change this behavior for the next version. Until then you don’t need to use special Javascript hacks, just change

$this->user_name = $current_user->user_login;

from line 245 of quick-chat.php v4.10 into

$this->user_name = $current_user->display_name;

But to make all features work fine make sure logged in users do not use same display names. In the next version I will make display names used by default and do the checks when deciding on initial user name so all will be fine.