Google Talk Widget WordPress Plugin
Adds WordPress sidebar widget to show Google chatback badge on the website and offer visitors web chat through Google Talk instant messaging network.
** Note to previous users of 1.0: ** This is essentially a new plugin. The old chat badge can be added to your sidebar by copy and pasting google's badge code into a normal text widget.
Using Google Talk, you can now simulate a professional live chat system on your website! This plugin allows further flexibility over Google Talk by allowing customizeable online/offline status badges, as well as wrapping the chat window in a smooth overlay effect, avoiding the need for ugly popups.
New features in 2.0:
- Multi-account fallback (when one goes offline, another available account will be used).
- Google Talk client is wrapped in a overlay widget.
- AJAX online status checking - visitors don't need to refresh the page when you come back online.
- Customizeable online and offline icons
- Customizeable link for offline clicks (e.g. your
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Usage of Google Talk Widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 7 to 4 — down 3 (-42.9%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 4 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 4 | -2 |
| March 2024 | 6 | +0 |
| February 2024 | 6 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 6 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 6 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 7 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 7 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 7 | — |
Sites running Google Talk Widget
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