Comments on: Google Talk Sidebar Widget 1.0 for WordPress 2.5

By: alax

alax — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:56:26 +0000

Q: Is this one with one chat or it can be many ppl inside one chat?

This instant messaging chat is one visitor and the one who hosts website (talkback badge owner). If there are 2+ visitors, the chat owner sees independent windows for every visitor, so vistors cant see each other.

By: alax

alax — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:02:17 +0000

It is also possible to change basge’s widht and height. It’s quite obvious from just observing the copy/pasted code, still it’s worth mentioning. Width and height are there TWICE, in the iframe url and also in it’s attributes. Both have to be changed.

By: alax

alax — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:59:24 +0000

I have been asked twice about Google Apps for Domain. This is because noone read docs, including me.

http://www.google.com/support/talkgadget/bin/answer.py?answer=86171

If you’re using a Google Apps account, you can create a chatback badge by visiting http://www.google.com/talk/service/a/DOMAIN/badge/New where DOMAIN is the name of your domain.

By: alax

alax — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:13:41 +0000

Q: Im testing… Need signup for gmail for use this plugin?

You don’t need as a visitor, however if you need to put this onto your website then you have to have an account with Google Talk service.

By: alax

alax — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:23:28 +0000

Since I uploaded the plugin onto wordpress.org there have been quite a lot of people came here to check if this really works. Here will be most interesting questions. Not that I know the answers, but there will be hopefully someone to correct.

Q: Hi, I got your wp-googletalk plugin on my website - there ist one ‘but’ - when Im offline plugin is also offline - why can’t somebody leave me a messege?

This is how Google decided it to work. The messages are anonymous - maybe because of this - or maybe because the message is handled not by pure Jabber/XMPP (IM) client, but the web extension which is started from the link sent to Jabber/XMPP client and the entire conversation is web based on both sides. Anyhow, offline messages are lost.

Q: Will the entire thing work with Google Apps for Domain

I don’t see a reason why not as long as you are logged in to Google’s instant messaging network, either via Jabber/XMPP protocol on talk.google.com port 5223, or through Google Mail web interface. If the assumption is correct for Google Apps for Domain, then I believe it would work.