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Powered by Better Messages Cloud with extended categories, custom rules, and conversation context awareness<\/li>\n<li><strong>OpenAI Moderation API<\/strong> \u2014 free to use, requires an OpenAI API key<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>Custom moderation rules \u2014 define your own rules in plain text<\/li>\n<li>Conversation context awareness \u2014 detect patterns split across multiple messages<\/li>\n<li>Choose between \"Flag Only\" (recommended) or \"Hold for Review\" moderation actions<\/li>\n<li>Pre-Moderated Messages - review messages before delivery<\/li>\n<li>Report messages feature<\/li>\n<li>Bad words filter with customizable blacklist<\/li>\n<li>Block user feature<\/li>\n<li>Role-based access control<\/li>\n<li>User whitelist\/blacklist for moderation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Engagement Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Reactions to messages<\/li>\n<li>Mentions (@username)<\/li>\n<li>Mass messaging from WP Admin with scheduling, file attachments, and background processing<\/li>\n<li>Suggested conversations for new users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/features\/mini-widgets\/\">Mini Widgets<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Embed conversation entry points anywhere on your site without using shortcodes<\/li>\n<li>Five widgets: Friends, Groups, Users, AI Bots, Chat Rooms<\/li>\n<li>Two display styles: Classic Bar or Floating Bubble (with chat heads)<\/li>\n<li>Three placement surfaces: bottom bar, side panel, mobile tab bar<\/li>\n<li>Per-widget icon picker, search box, role restrictions, and \"Hide Tab When Empty\" toggle<\/li>\n<li>Users widget with three display modes (all \/ by role \/ hand-picked) and sorting by last activity or registration date<\/li>\n<li>Customizable order of tabs in mini widgets, side panel and mobile view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Customization:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Modern, fully customizable design<\/li>\n<li>Appearance tab \u2014 repaint every part of the messenger, reshape its corners and spacing and tune dark mode, with a live preview<\/li>\n<li>Custom notification sounds<\/li>\n<li>RTL layout support<\/li>\n<li>White label solution<\/li>\n<li>Fully translatable<\/li>\n<li>Auto-delete old messages option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Privacy &amp; GDPR:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Dedicated Privacy &amp; GDPR settings page<\/li>\n<li>All message data stored on your own server<\/li>\n<li>AI moderation (when enabled) sends message content for analysis \u2014 Better Messages Cloud does not store any data, review OpenAI's data policy if using OpenAI provider<\/li>\n<li>WordPress personal data export and erasure support (Tools \u2192 Export\/Erase Personal Data)<\/li>\n<li>Suggested privacy policy text that adapts based on enabled features<\/li>\n<li>Self-hosted emoji images option \u2014 no external CDN requests<\/li>\n<li>Privacy-friendly video embeds \u2014 YouTube, Vimeo load only after user clicks<\/li>\n<li>No cookies set, no analytics or tracking scripts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/features\/privacy-gdpr\/\">Privacy &amp; GDPR documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>This is not a complete list of features<\/strong> - Better Messages has many more small features and options that are not listed here. We are constantly adding new features and improvements based on user feedback.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Compatible plugins &amp; themes \u2014 35+ native integrations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Better Messages works on <strong>any<\/strong> WordPress site out of the box. If your site already runs a community plugin, an LMS, a marketplace, or a directory, Better Messages plugs into it directly \u2014 inheriting members, profiles, groups, courses, listings, and posts so chat surfaces appear in the right places without setup.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Community &amp; Membership Platforms<\/strong> \u2014 replaces the built-in messenger and inherits members, profiles, friends, and groups:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/buddypress\/\">BuddyPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/buddyboss\/\">BuddyBoss Platform<\/a> \u2014 including BuddyBoss Theme and ReadyLaunch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/peepso\/\">PeepSo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/ultimate-member\/\">Ultimate Member<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/fluentcommunity\/\">FluentCommunity<\/a> \u2014 including Spaces and Courses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/suredash\/\">SureDash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/profile-grid\/\">ProfileGrid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/userswp\/\">UsersWP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/wp-user-manager\/\">WP User Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Learning Management Systems (LMS)<\/strong> \u2014 course chat rooms, instructor messaging, and student-to-student conversations:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/learndash\/\">LearnDash<\/a> \u2014 including Instructor Role add-on<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/learnpress\/\">LearnPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/tutor-lms\/\">Tutor LMS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/masterstudy-lms\/\">MasterStudy LMS<\/a><\/li>\n<li>FluentCommunity Courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>E-commerce \u2014 WooCommerce<\/strong> \u2014 pre-sales and order support chat for online stores:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/woocommerce\/\">WooCommerce<\/a> \u2014 Contact buttons on <strong>product<\/strong>, <strong>cart<\/strong>, <strong>checkout<\/strong>, and <strong>order<\/strong> pages. Cart contents are auto-posted into the conversation as a rich message so your support agent immediately sees what the customer is looking at, order pages post a structured order context card. Plain product URLs pasted into any chat are expanded into rich product cards. Embedded inbox lives inside WooCommerce <strong>My Account<\/strong>. <strong>HPOS-compatible<\/strong>, block-theme-compatible, works with <strong>guest checkout<\/strong>. Available on <strong>both the free and WebSocket versions<\/strong> \u2014 the WebSocket version opens chats as a popup mini-widget overlay instead of navigating away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Marketplaces &amp; Multi-Vendor<\/strong> \u2014 buyer-to-vendor chat on top of WooCommerce, with per-vendor opt-in and contact buttons on vendor stores, product pages, and order details:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/dokan\/\">Dokan Marketplace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/multivendorx\/\">MultiVendorX<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/wcfm\/\">WCFM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/wc-vendors\/\">WC Vendors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Listings, Directories &amp; Classifieds<\/strong> \u2014 contact buttons on every listing, with per-listing threads:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/hivepress\/\">HivePress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/directorist\/\">Directorist<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/geodirectory\/\">GeoDirectory<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/classified-listing\/\">Classified Listing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/motors\/\">Motors \u2013 Car Dealer, Classifieds &amp; Listing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/wp-job-manager\/\">WP Job Manager<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Real Estate Themes<\/strong> \u2014 agent and inquiry messaging on property listings:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/houzez\/\">Houzez<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/realhomes\/\">RealHomes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Forums<\/strong> \u2014 Private Message link on every reply:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/wpforo\/\">wpForo<\/a><\/li>\n<li>bbPress<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Gamification, Points &amp; Paid Access<\/strong> \u2014 charge per message or call with per-role pricing and balance display:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/gamipress\/\">GamiPress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/mycred\/\">MyCRED<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Automation &amp; Page Builders:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/uncanny-automator\/\">Uncanny Automator<\/a> \u2014 triggers and actions for chat events<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/automatorwp\/\">AutomatorWP<\/a> \u2014 triggers and actions for chat events<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/jet-engine\/\">Crocoblock JetEngine Profile Builder<\/a> \u2014 profile and chat shortcodes for JetEngine listings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Push &amp; PWA:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/fluent-notify\/\">FluentNotify<\/a> \u2014 web push through your own Firebase project<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/onesignal\/\">OneSignal<\/a> \u2014 web push notifications<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/progressify\/\">Progressify PWA<\/a> \u2014 install-to-home-screen prompts on the messenger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Universal Shortcode Builder \u2014 add chat to anything else:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Don't see your plugin or theme in the list? Better Messages ships a visual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/shortcodes\/better_messages_live_chat_button\/\">Shortcode Builder<\/a> at <strong>WP Admin \u2192 Better Messages \u2192 Shortcodes<\/strong> that lets you drop a Live Chat Button onto any custom post type, directory, marketplace listing, agent profile, or page builder block \u2014 <strong>without writing PHP<\/strong>. Point it at a sample post, choose how the target user is resolved (post author, postmeta-stored user ID, or a fixed inbox), set a thread strategy and label, and copy the generated shortcode. The same shortcode then works for every post of the same shape, with automatic per-post threading and an optional in-chat banner. Paste it into Gutenberg, Elementor, Bricks, Divi, or directly into a theme template.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/category\/integrations\/\">Full list of integrations<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Feel free to report any incompatibility or request more integrations \u2014 that is very important and helps improve Better Messages!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>WebSocket version:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>WebSocket version is a paid option, you can get license key on our website.<\/p>\n\n<p>We use our dedicated servers to implement WebSocket communications between your site and users. Our servers are completely private and do not store or track any private data \u2014 all messages remain in your database.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Performance &amp; Reliability:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Significantly<\/strong> reduces the load on your server (up to 200x fewer requests)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Instant<\/strong> message delivery in realtime<\/li>\n<li>Works with any hosting including shared hosting<\/li>\n<li>No limits on concurrent connections or monthly active users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Video &amp; Audio Calls:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>HD Video Calls (1-to-1)<\/li>\n<li>HD Audio Calls (1-to-1)<\/li>\n<li>Group Video Chats (up to 32 participants)<\/li>\n<li>Group Audio Chats (up to 50 participants)<\/li>\n<li>Screen Sharing in calls and group chats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Mobile Apps (Alpha):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>iOS Mobile App (build your own branded app) - Alpha<\/li>\n<li>Android Mobile App (build your own branded app) - Alpha<\/li>\n<li>Push notifications for calls and messages<\/li>\n<li>VoIP notifications for incoming calls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Note: Mobile apps are currently in alpha stage. Core functionality works, but some features may be limited or under development.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Realtime Features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Messages Delivery Status (sent, delivered, seen)<\/li>\n<li>Typing, voice recording and file uploading activity indicators<\/li>\n<li>Online\/Offline presence indicator<\/li>\n<li>User statuses (Online, Away, Do Not Disturb)<\/li>\n<li>Mini Chats - chat windows anywhere on your site<\/li>\n<li>Mini Conversations widget - list and continue recent threads from any page<\/li>\n<li>Online-only filter and online-first ordering for the Users mini widget<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Better Messages Cloud AI:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic message translation in 1-to-1 conversations \u2014 53 languages, auto-detection<\/li>\n<li>AI Content Moderation \u2014 23 categories, custom rules, conversation context awareness<\/li>\n<li>Voice message transcription \u2014 99+ languages with auto-detection<\/li>\n<li>No third-party API keys required \u2014 included with WebSocket license at no additional cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Security &amp; Encryption:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Optional End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) \u2014 can be enabled at the website level and per conversation, messages and files encrypted in users' browsers with AES-256-GCM, server never sees plaintext<\/li>\n<li>Local browser encryption (AES256) for offline message storage<\/li>\n<li>Web Push Notifications (works even when the browser is closed)<\/li>\n<li>All data encrypted in transit, so we can't read it on our servers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Support:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Priority email support<\/li>\n<li>Regular updates and new features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@monica.lucarini28\/is-websocket-a-game-changer-aeaef68d1fba\">Why WebSockets are a game-changer?<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordplus.org\/downloads\/bp-better-messages\/\">Get WebSocket version license key<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordplus.org\/end-user-license-agreement\/\">Terms of Use<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp-plugins\/bp-better-messages\/\">Languages<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>RTL layout is built into the plugin.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can translate plugin to your language with LocoTranslate or <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp-plugins\/bp-better-messages\/\">participate in plugin translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the plugin files to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/bp-better-messages<\/code> directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' screen in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Use the Settings -&gt; Better Messages to configure the plugin<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"is%20better%20messages%20free%3F\"><h3>Is Better Messages free?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes \u2014 install the free version from WordPress.org. It supports private and group conversations, chat rooms, file sharing, oEmbed previews, smart-batched email notifications, role-based access, guest chat, and the standard messenger feature set. The WebSocket version is paid and unlocks instant delivery, one-on-one and group voice \/ video calls, AI Chat Bots, AI Content Moderation, AI Message Translation, Voice Message Transcription, web push, and end-to-end encryption.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"which%20wordpress%20plugins%20does%20better%20messages%20integrate%20with%3F\"><h3>Which WordPress plugins does Better Messages integrate with?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>35+ native integrations across community platforms (BuddyPress, BuddyBoss Platform, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, FluentCommunity, SureDash, ProfileGrid, UsersWP, WP User Manager), LMS (LearnDash, LearnPress, Tutor LMS, MasterStudy LMS), e-commerce (WooCommerce \u2014 pre-sales and order support chat with contact buttons on product, cart, checkout, and order pages), multi-vendor marketplaces (Dokan, WCFM, WC Vendors, MultiVendorX), listings and directories (HivePress, Directorist, GeoDirectory, Classified Listing, Motors, WP Job Manager), real estate themes (Houzez, RealHomes), forums (wpForo, bbPress), gamification (GamiPress, MyCRED), automation (Uncanny Automator, AutomatorWP), page builders (Crocoblock JetEngine), and push \/ PWA (OneSignal, Progressify). If your plugin isn't listed, the built-in visual Shortcode Builder lets you add a Live Chat Button to any custom post type without writing PHP. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/category\/integrations\/\">full list of integrations<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20support%20group%20conversations%3F\"><h3>Does it support group conversations?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes \u2014 first-class group chats with shared history, mentions, reactions, file uploads, replies, edit \/ delete \/ forward, and group voice \/ video calls (WebSocket version). Group chats can be auto-paired with BuddyPress \/ BuddyBoss \/ PeepSo \/ Ultimate Member \/ FluentCommunity groups, with members joining and leaving the chat in sync with the source community group.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20unregistered%20visitors%20%28guests%29%20chat%3F\"><h3>Can unregistered visitors (guests) chat?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes \u2014 Guest Chat lets unregistered visitors join chat rooms, message vendors on marketplaces, ask questions on directory listings, or chat with site support. Guests enter a display name (and optionally an email), then participate as a guest user. Their thread history is preserved if they later register.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20support%20voice%20and%20video%20calls%20on%20wordpress%3F\"><h3>Does it support voice and video calls on WordPress?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes (WebSocket version) \u2014 one-on-one and group voice \/ video calls live inside the messenger thread, not as a separate Zoom \/ Whereby integration. Hosted media relay is included with the WebSocket license, no separate Twilio account, no Daily \/ Whereby subscription, no Zoom developer plan. Calls are full-screen on mobile and picture-in-picture on desktop.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"is%20better%20messages%20gdpr-compatible%3F\"><h3>Is Better Messages GDPR-compatible?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. All message data is stored only in your WordPress database. The WebSocket cloud relay is blind to message content \u2014 it routes encrypted events but does not read, store, or inspect what passes through. Better Messages also integrates with WordPress's built-in Personal Data Export and Erasure tools. For sites with stricter data-sovereignty requirements (GDPR Article 9, HIPAA-adjacent, regulated-data workloads), a self-hosted plan is available \u2014 contact support.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20have%20ai%20features%3F\"><h3>Does it have AI features?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes (WebSocket version, AI add-on). AI Chat Bots (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini) act as full participants in any thread, with custom system prompts and per-bot points charging via GamiPress \/ MyCRED. Better Messages Cloud AI provides AI Content Moderation (23+ categories including spam, scam, doxxing, contact sharing), AI Message Translation (53 languages with auto-detection), and Voice Message Transcription (99+ languages) \u2014 all included with the WebSocket license, no third-party API key required.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20have%20native%20ios%20and%20android%20apps%3F\"><h3>Does it have native iOS and Android apps?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes \u2014 Better Messages ships native iOS and Android mobile apps built on Capacitor, with push notifications, real-time delivery, voice \/ video calls, and full messenger feature parity with the web. White-label rebuild is available for sites that want their own branded app on the App Store \/ Play Store under their own developer accounts.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20translate%20the%20messenger%20interface%20to%20my%20language%3F\"><h3>Can I translate the messenger interface to my language?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes \u2014 Better Messages is fully translatable through standard WordPress translation tools (Loco Translate, WPML, Polylang) using the <code>bp-better-messages<\/code> text domain. Ships with 30+ community translations. Contribute or improve a translation at <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.wordpress.org\/projects\/wp-plugins\/bp-better-messages\/\">translate.wordpress.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20it%20support%20end-to-end%20encryption%3F\"><h3>Does it support end-to-end encryption?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes (WebSocket version). End-to-end encryption is enabled per thread \u2014 messages and file attachments are encrypted in the sender's browser with AES-256-GCM before transmission, stay encrypted at rest in the database, and decrypt only in the recipient's browser. The server stores ciphertext only, no admin, host engineer, or attacker with database access can read the message content of an E2E thread.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"where%20can%20i%20find%20detailed%20documentation%3F\"><h3>Where can I find detailed documentation?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The complete documentation, integration guides, REST API reference, hooks reference, video tutorials, and 80+ blog posts are at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/\">www.better-messages.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<p><strong>Important \u2014 please read before updating to 3.0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>3.0 is a full redesign. Your conversations, settings and integrations carry across untouched \u2014 including the colors and sizes you set in the Customizer \u2014 but three things need your attention:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Custom CSS needs rewriting: the messenger's classes are now prefixed <code>bm-<\/code> instead of <code>bpbm-<\/code> and <code>bp-messages-<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Update the exclusion lists of any caching or optimisation plugin: the script and style files were renamed (<code>bp-messages*<\/code> \u2192 <code>better-messages*<\/code>, <code>bpbm-worker.js<\/code> \u2192 <code>bm-worker.js<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>The WordPress Customizer integration is gone \u2014 colors and sizes now live in the Appearance tab, and snippets calling <code>Better_Messages()-&gt;customize<\/code> stop working<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Noticed something wrong after updating to 3.0? Please tell us.<\/strong> A redesign this large can behave differently on a theme or plugin combination we have not seen. If anything looks broken, missing or out of place, email us at <a href=\"mailto:support@better-messages.com\">support@better-messages.com<\/a> \u2014 or open a topic on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/plugin\/bp-better-messages\/\">support forum<\/a> if you are can not contact email for some reason \u2014 and we will get it fixed. Please do not leave it unreported, every report speeds up a fix for everyone.<\/p>\n\n<h4>3.0.7 - 3.0.8<\/h4>\n\n<p><strong>Thank you to everyone who sent feedback and bug reports on the 3.0 release.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Text pasted into the reply box keeps its bold, italics, underline and strikethrough, whether it was copied from a message or from another page \u2014 fonts, colours and everything else stay behind<\/li>\n<li>Fixed quotes, ampersands and angle brackets showing as HTML codes in the mobile app's message notifications and the conversation title above them<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the messenger's loading placeholder jumping on phones and in narrow page columns \u2014 it now shows the same single-column layout the messenger opens in<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an iPhone placing or answering a video call in Chrome still showing its own picture at half its width in a black frame<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the reply box losing its focus and cursor about a second after a new conversation was opened from a link, which closed the keyboard on a phone<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an emoji from a phone's keyboard or a paste appearing in the reply box as WordPress's emoji image, with the cursor jumped in front of it and the emoji missing from the sent message<\/li>\n<li>Fixed presence-based chat rooms offering <strong>Pin to top<\/strong>, which pinned nothing because those rooms never appear in the conversations list<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the conversation going blank for a moment between the loading placeholder and a conversation opened from a link<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a message sent just as the reply box saved its draft coming back into the reply box after sending, and staying there as the conversation's draft<\/li>\n<li>Fixed text typed just before reloading the page or closing the tab missing from the conversation's draft<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a long press on a conversation in the list selecting the list's text on a phone instead of opening the conversation's menu, and no list of conversations, people, groups or chat rooms selects its text on a long press or a mouse drag any more<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a long message filling the search results and the favourites list with its whole text \u2014 a search result now shows the words around the match on two lines<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the text of a message not being selectable with a mouse on a Windows 2-in-1 or tablet the browser treats as a touch screen \u2014 a long press with a finger still opens the message menu<\/li>\n<li>Fixed <strong>Copy message text<\/strong> losing the message's line breaks and formatting \u2014 a copied message pastes back into a conversation as it was written, and into other editors with its bold, italics and links<\/li>\n<li>Members keep their end-to-end encryption keys in the browser while encryption is switched off, so switching it back on no longer asks them for their backup password<\/li>\n<li>Audio Call and Video Call are offered for guests too in the users list, search results, a chat room's online users and a conversation's participants, as they already were inside a conversation with a guest<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the Minimize button still appearing on the BuddyBoss Messages page with <strong>Hide Mini Widget on Messages Page<\/strong> turned on, where pressing it sent the conversation into a mini chat that setting had already hidden<\/li>\n<li>Phones and mini chats can show every button beside a message, the \u22ef menu alone or none, at <strong>Appearance \u2192 Mobile \u2192 Buttons beside a message<\/strong> and <strong>Appearance \u2192 Mini widgets \u2192 Mini chat windows \u2192 Buttons beside a message<\/strong>, which take the place of <strong>Tap a message to show its actions<\/strong> and <strong>Message actions in mini chats<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Messages on a phone and in a mini chat take all the width their buttons leave, in every message design, instead of stopping at the Maximum bubble width<\/li>\n<li>A favorited message shows its star beside the time where the buttons beside it carry none<\/li>\n<li>Fixed turning <strong>Tap a message to show its actions<\/strong> off in 3.0.6 also taking reactions away on a phone \u2014 a tap brings up the reactions picker whatever the buttons beside a message are set to<\/li>\n<li><strong>No bubbles<\/strong> is now <strong>Classic<\/strong>, laid out as 2.0's Standard template was: every message on one side, its buttons and time on its first line and no room kept beside it, with <strong>Message side<\/strong> applying to the bubble designs only<\/li>\n<li>Fixed <strong>Pointing tail toward the avatar<\/strong> moving the sender name away from the avatar along with the bubble<\/li>\n<li>Reactions are now at the top of the message menu as well, which is what makes them reachable on a picture at last \u2014 long press the image, or open the same menu from the image viewer's own button<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the reactions picker sliding away the moment a reaction was picked, which put a different emoji under a cursor that had not moved<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the message menu sliding in from the side of the screen on a phone instead of opening where the message was pressed<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Escape closing the image viewer together with the message menu opened over it<\/li>\n<li>A sticker, a GIF or a picture carrying reactions now shows its time on the same row as the pills, the way a message with text already did, instead of spending a line on each<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a landscape GIF or sticker leaving its bubble wider than the picture, with the time and ticks beside it instead of on it<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the messenger being pushed sideways and squeezed into a narrow strip by a theme's floated element, most visibly on a BuddyPress group's Messages tab on a phone<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the messenger, and the page around it, being stretched to the width of the longest conversation preview on a theme that sizes its layout from its own content<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a theme's text color taking over the messenger's search and picker fields, which could leave their text unreadable on a dark palette<\/li>\n<li>Fixed opening the conversation menu during a call taking the conversation off screen and closing the menu again, with the call stretched across the whole messenger in its place<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the call controls drawing, and taking clicks, over the conversation information panel opened beside a call<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a GIF or sticker being cut off at the edge of the conversation a call squeezes, instead of shrinking to the room it has<\/li>\n<li>The conversation beside a call can be made wider or narrower, at Appearance \u2192 Layout \u2192 During a call, where its width had always been fixed at 350px<\/li>\n<li>The other messages' text color at Appearance \u2192 Colors now says when the selected message design does not paint it, instead of looking live while changing nothing<\/li>\n<li>Fixed pinning or muting a conversation, changing your status, opening a sticker pack and following a refused Private Message link reporting \"AxiosError: Request failed with status code 403\" or \"[object Object]\" in place of the reason the site gave<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a connection that drops raising \"Network Error\" notices over the messenger, most visible on a phone, where a suspended tab or a move from Wi-Fi to cellular could put several of them on screen at once<\/li>\n<li>A firewall or CORS rule that keeps the messenger from reaching the site now says so in one readable notice, where it used to show \"Network Error\"<\/li>\n<li>An action that could not reach the site, such as pinning, muting, a reaction or a setting, now says so in one readable notice instead of \"Network Error\"<\/li>\n<li>Notification cards now step around open mini chats, the mini chats bar and the phone's chat button instead of covering them<\/li>\n<li>A new message no longer raises a notification card while its conversation can already be seen, open or in view in a conversations list \u2014 one pushed below the pinned conversations, or behind another tab of the mini widget, still raises it<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a setting that the site would not save saying nothing at all, on the messenger's own settings screen<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Private Message taking you off the page instead of opening a mini chat, in the participants and online users lists of a conversation embedded on a page and in a mini chat's own message menu<\/li>\n<li>Fixed typing @ in a presence-based chat room offering only the people who had already written there, which left somebody sitting in the room who has never spoken impossible to mention<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the name search behind @ finding nobody in a conversation holding more participants than the messenger had loaded<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the list of names that opens on @ landing far from the message field on a phone once the on-screen keyboard was up, and not appearing at all where the messenger had taken the whole screen<\/li>\n<li>Typing @ searches a whole name again, spaces included, where the list had been closing at the first space and leaving a member findable only by the word their name starts with<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the list of names that opens on @ appearing behind the mobile app's own screen, where Enter then picked a name nobody could see<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a group conversation viewed before anyone had written in it never granting moderator rights to the first person who then sent a message<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an error while preparing a conversation update for one participant leaving the rest of that request acting as that participant<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the \"New messages\" line disappearing a moment after opening a conversation from another one, and landing above messages already read when a conversation is opened again<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the message field sometimes opening partly under the on-screen keyboard on an iPhone, where only closing the keyboard and tapping again brought it into view<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a conversation left showing loading placeholders instead of its empty state once its last message was deleted or it was cleared, which on a WebSocket site lasted until the page was reloaded<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the bubble-style mini widget's conversation panel closing while its emoji picker, formatting bar or image viewer was in use<\/li>\n<li>Fixed end-to-end encryption keys being lost when the messenger rebuilt its local data right after the page loaded, which left the member restoring them with their backup password<\/li>\n<li>Fixed chat room moderators no longer being offered Delete on other members' messages<\/li>\n<li>Fixed chat room moderators being shown the group call settings of a room, which only a site moderator can change<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Private Message missing from the message menu in a course conversation between two people<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Kick participant being offered in a group's chat, whose members come from the group itself<\/li>\n<li>One-to-one calls now move to the room only when they cannot connect directly or through the relay server at all, so a brief network change, such as a phone switching from Wi-Fi to mobile data, keeps a call on its direct connection<\/li>\n<li>One-to-one calls can now last as long as needed \u2014 a long call no longer ends when its connection has to move to the room, and a call carried by the relay server no longer drops after six hours<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a one-to-one call that had moved to the room ending by itself a minute after a brief loss of the realtime connection<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the caller waiting on \"Connecting\" for good when the other side answered but could not join, where the call now ends with \"The other side could not join the call\"<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the caller of a call that starts in the room waiting on \"Connecting\" for good when the other side accepted and never arrived, where the call now ends after a minute<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a one-to-one call sometimes not recovering after its connection dropped for more than a few seconds<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a phone's camera no longer reaching the other side of a one-to-one video call after the browser had spent more than a few seconds in the background<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the camera or microphone staying on after a call when it had been turned on while the call was still ringing<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a phone's own camera preview being drawn at half its width in a black frame, at the start of a call and after coming back to the browser<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a Firefox participant's camera never reaching the others in a room call, including a one-to-one call that had moved to the room<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the iOS and Android apps hanging up a one-to-one call as it moved to the room, and turning a muted microphone or a switched-off camera back on there \u2014 the apps need a new build to get this<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the iOS and Android apps saying the other side had lost connection for the rest of a call after a moment's drop of their own connection \u2014 the apps need a new build to get this<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a call answered from the iOS app's own ringing screen sometimes having no sound in either direction \u2014 the app needs a new build to get this<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a series of call problems in the iOS and Android apps, in group calls and in one-to-one calls that reconnect or move to the room \u2014 the apps need a new build to get this<\/li>\n<li>Fixed avatars in the conversations list, the compact icons-only list included, showing an arrow instead of the hand pointer the rest of the row shows<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the New Conversation button missing from the conversations list with <strong>Messaging \u2192 Single Conversation Per Recipient<\/strong> turned on<\/li>\n<li>Fixed <strong>Hide in private conversations<\/strong> and <strong>Hide in group conversations<\/strong> at Appearance \u2192 Conversation \u2192 Avatars treating a conversation of three or more people as a private one<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a visitor who is not logged in getting an error on opening a member, an AI bot or a chat room from a list, instead of being asked to log in or continue as a guest<\/li>\n<li>Fixed <strong>Calls \u2192 Call Restrictions \u2192 Restricted Roles<\/strong> also taking group audio and video chats away from those roles, where it covers one-to-one calls only<\/li>\n<li>Audio Call and Video Call are back beside people in the mini widget, in search results, in a chat room's online users list and among the participants of a conversation embedded on a page<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a search typed with any tab other than Messages in front showing no results<\/li>\n<li>The points balance on the account row follows <strong>User Menu<\/strong> and <strong>User Menu Popup<\/strong> at Integrations \u2192 Points Systems \u2192 Balance Display again, instead of appearing in its menu whenever the balance was shown anywhere else<\/li>\n<li>Fixed FluentNotify showing its own notification for a new message a few seconds after the messenger had already shown one on the same page<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Reply in the image viewer only closing the picture in a mini chat that had been closed and opened again since the picture was first viewed<\/li>\n<li>Other minor bugfixes and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>3.0.4 - 3.0.6<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>A conversation full of long, heavily formatted messages opens far faster and no longer locks up a phone while it loads<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a PHP warning on every message push to a member whose only registered device is an Android phone, which filled the debug log of any site running the mobile app with WordPress debugging on<\/li>\n<li>The member's own avatar and name at the foot of the conversation list can be hidden again \u2014 the new <strong>Appearance \u2192 Layout \u2192 Interface elements \u2192 Account row<\/strong> decides it, and the settings button stays behind as it did in 2.x<\/li>\n<li>Fixed My profile still being offered at the foot of the settings screen on a phone when the Appearance switch for it was turned off<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the last conversation in the list staying on screen after it was erased, deleted or left, until the page was reloaded<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a chat room's online users list taking its width out of the conversation during a call, which left messages wrapping at about one character a line<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the Login button on a chat room's sign-in prompt taking its label colour from the theme, which left it unreadable on the accent fill in some colour schemes<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the Indigo palette's dark mode putting white on its accent, where the other palettes already use dark ink<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the user settings buttons \u2014 \"Restore encryption keys\", \"Free up space\" and \"Clear local data\" \u2014 arriving in dark mode as outlines with nothing legible inside them, and \"Clear local data\" not reading as the destructive action it is<\/li>\n<li>A microphone or camera that will not open now says why \u2014 not allowed yet, missing, or already in use by another application \u2014 and points at the fix it needs<\/li>\n<li>Security improvement: a sent message now carries only the metadata the messenger is meant to send, with everything else written on the server \u2014 developers sending custom metadata can allow their keys through the new <code>better_messages_client_message_meta_keys<\/code> filter<\/li>\n<li>Security improvement: a display name can no longer carry an element into the messenger \u2014 names now pass an allowlist on the server and in the browser, which badges, icons and the links around them pass untouched, and a tag it does not carry can be added through the new <code>better_messages_display_name_allowed_html<\/code> filter in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/php-filters\/#better_messages_display_name_allowed_html\">PHP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/js-filters\/#better_messages_display_name_allowed_html\">JavaScript<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The \"Chatting as \u2026\" bar above the message field, with its login and register links, is back on every screen a guest can be on \u2014 mini chats included, which had never carried it<\/li>\n<li>A link to a chat room opens the Chat Rooms tab again, rather than leaving the list on Conversations<\/li>\n<li>A role that may not start conversations, guests included, no longer gets a \"Start a new conversation\" button on the screen beside the conversations list<\/li>\n<li>Every link inside a message opens in a new tab again, markdown links and links written as HTML included<\/li>\n<li>Fixed \"Pointing tail toward the avatar\" pointing away from it, outlined messages being unable to carry the tail at all, and an outlined message losing its own edge while it was clicked<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the reason a conversation could not be started never reaching the member who tried, or staying in the address bar and coming back as a stray error on the next screen \u2014 most visible on the interval a member must wait between starting conversations<\/li>\n<li>The reply, favorite and more buttons are back beside messages in mini chat windows, now as a setting \u2014 <strong>Appearance \u2192 Mini chat windows \u2192 Message actions in mini chats<\/strong>, on by default as in 2.x<\/li>\n<li>Opening an image no longer hides the ways to answer it \u2014 the viewer's toolbar now carries Reply, the favorite star and the whole message menu<\/li>\n<li>Whether a tap on a message reveals its buttons is now yours to choose \u2014 <strong>Appearance \u2192 Conversation \u2192 Messages \u2192 Tap a message to show its actions<\/strong>, on by default as it has been since 2.x<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the buttons beside a message being clipped at the edge of the conversation, which on a phone cut the last one in half<\/li>\n<li>Fixed \"Copy message text\" being offered on a message with no text to copy, such as a voice message, a sticker, a GIF or attachments sent without a caption<\/li>\n<li>Notification cards are yours to colour \u2014 <strong>Appearance \u2192 Colors \u2192 Notifications<\/strong> now carries their background, text and border in both schemes, and a choice of Inverted as before or Match the messenger<\/li>\n<li>Fixed typing @ in a presence-based chat room offering no names \u2014 the list is now built from whoever is in the room and whoever has spoken in it<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the Appearance preview filling the debug log with WordPress deprecation notices every time the settings page was opened<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an email notification from a chat room arriving with <code>&amp;#038;<\/code> in its subject line in place of the <code>&amp;<\/code> in the room's name, and the same for an apostrophe, a quotation mark, a dash and an ellipsis \u2014 a room named before this is corrected as the email goes out, so nothing has to be re-saved<\/li>\n<li>Reliability improvements for one-to-one calls \u2014 a call whose connection fails now recovers, or moves to the room, in seconds rather than tens of seconds, and the iOS and Android apps need a new build to get them<\/li>\n<li>Erasing a conversation removes it from your own list straight away, rather than leaving a row that opens to \"the conversation does not exist\" \u2014 leaving one, pinning, muting and editing a message all answer at once in the same way<\/li>\n<li>\"Clear messages\" now clears the whole conversation, instead of removing the first fifty messages and reporting success with the rest still there<\/li>\n<li>A conversation that no longer exists, or that you can no longer open, is cleared from the messenger for guests too, and one left behind by a missed realtime message is noticed again after a reload<\/li>\n<li>The time on a hover card keeps counting while the card is open, in the narrow conversations rail and on the chat heads alike<\/li>\n<li>Other minor bugfixes and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>3.0.0 - 3.0.3<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>The messenger has been redesigned from the ground up \u2014 every surface, from the conversations list to mini chats and popups, is new, while keeping the layout and workflows you know<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Appearance<\/strong> tab has been rebuilt around the new design \u2014 repaint any part of the messenger, reshape its corners and spacing, tune dark mode, and watch every change land in a live preview before saving. The colors and sizes you set in the Customizer are carried over<\/li>\n<li>The messenger's font is now yours to set at Appearance \u2192 Typography \u2014 pick a stack, type your own, or hand it to your theme's font<\/li>\n<li>The Mobile App page has been rebuilt and is no longer in alpha \u2014 a readiness checklist says what a build still needs before you start one, and the installed app now tells you when an update needs a restart, or a newer version is waiting in the App Store or Google Play<\/li>\n<li>Messages can now carry a location \u2014 a map picker with nearby place suggestions, off until you turn it on in the new <strong>Location<\/strong> tab, which also chooses the map and place providers and which roles may send one<\/li>\n<li>Voice messages can be answered with a video message, through the <strong>Voice and Video Messages<\/strong> add-on 2.0 \u2014 the new <strong>Video Messages<\/strong> tab sets round or square, a maximum length, auto-deletion and which roles may send them<\/li>\n<li>AI chat bots can now be spoken to \u2014 send a voice message and the bot answers what was said, whatever model it runs on. Each bot has its own Voice Input switch, and all it needs is a transcription provider picked on the <strong>Voice Messages<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n<li>Voice messages can be transcribed the moment they are sent \u2014 the new Auto Transcription option on the <strong>Voice Messages<\/strong> tab does it for every voice message, and the bubble shows the transcription running instead of asking for a tap<\/li>\n<li>A conversation can now be read in your own language \u2014 turn translation on for that conversation and every message arrives translated, with the original one tap away. The <strong>Translation<\/strong> tab now reaches group conversations, chat rooms and chat bot messages, and can have it on by default<\/li>\n<li>Messages and files sent while offline are kept on the device and sent by themselves once you are back online, or cancelled before that<\/li>\n<li>Conversations cached on a device are now kept across plugin updates and settings changes, and trimmed by themselves once the copy grows large \u2014 a new Storage section in the user settings shows what the device holds and can free it up, and Tools can reset every device's copy<\/li>\n<li>A reply to a photo or file now carries a thumbnail of it, and the attachments list can jump straight to the message a file was sent in<\/li>\n<li>Answering a call on one device now stops the others ringing at once, instead of leaving them to ring on until the caller gave up<\/li>\n<li>The Classic design, the follow-the-device color scheme, the Settings \u2192 Mobile tab and Mini Widgets \u2192 Layout have been removed \u2014 the Appearance tab replaces them, and the WordPress Customizer integration is gone with them, so snippets calling <code>Better_Messages()-&gt;customize<\/code> no longer work<\/li>\n<li>Custom CSS and caching exclusions need updating: the messenger's CSS classes are now prefixed <code>bm-<\/code> rather than <code>bpbm-<\/code> and <code>bp-messages-<\/code>, and the script and style files were renamed (<code>bp-messages*<\/code> \u2192 <code>better-messages*<\/code>, <code>bpbm-worker.js<\/code> \u2192 <code>bm-worker.js<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li>Security improvement: a crafted guest registration could pass as an AI chat bot, which let it into role-restricted chat rooms<\/li>\n<li>Security improvement: a chat room's messages and participants were readable over the REST API by visitors its guest setting turns away<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a crafted icon SVG smuggling markup past the sanitizer in a CDATA section, which let it run script on the icon preview screen<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a phone notification from an AI chat bot showing <code>&lt;!-- BM-AI --&gt;<\/code> in front of the text, and an empty one being sent the moment a bot began answering in a one-to-one conversation<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the user menu showing no name or avatar for a member or guest who does not have any conversations yet<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the guest registration bar losing its right-hand edge on themes that do not set border-box sizing<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the installed app staying on a broken update until it was retried by hand \u2014 it now replaces or rolls one back on its own<\/li>\n<li>Fixed chat notifications still being sent to phones the app had been removed from, and those devices counting as reachable<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a failed call to the app build server being reported as a success, hiding the real error<\/li>\n<li>Everything released in the 2.15 line, up to 2.15.33, is included \u2014 those entries are listed separately below<\/li>\n<li>Other minor bugfixes and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.15.33<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/features\/guest-access\/#can-two-guests-use-the-same-display-name\"><strong>Unique Guest Names<\/strong><\/a> setting at Settings \u2192 General \u2014 turn it off to let guests use a display name someone else already took<\/li>\n<li>Added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/js-functions\/#openGroupCall\"><code>BetterMessages.openGroupCall()<\/code><\/a> JavaScript function \u2014 take a member straight into a chat room's group call from any page<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an AI chat bot's Conversations list failing with a critical error and reporting no conversations, when the bot was in a group or course<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a new encrypted conversation being created without a key when encryption was not yet set up on that device, leaving it unusable<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the other person's video staying black in a one-to-one call answered in Firefox, while their audio and the call itself worked<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the default avatar at Settings \u2192 Discussion being ignored on BuddyPress and BuddyBoss \u2014 users without a Gravatar showed the Gravatar logo<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a guest display name containing an underscore or percent sign being wrongly rejected as already taken<\/li>\n<li>Fixed unread counters bound to <code>better_messages_update_thread_unread<\/code> never dropping back to zero once a conversation was read<\/li>\n<li>Fixed text smiles containing <code>&lt;<\/code>, <code>&gt;<\/code> or <code>&amp;<\/code>, such as <code>&lt;3<\/code>, never turning into an emoji, and the conversion staying on when it was switched off<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a voice message shorter than a second arriving with no length shown, and the recording timer lagging up to a second behind<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a JavaScript error when an on-site notification was dismissed just as a new message reopened it<\/li>\n<li>Fixed conversations rendering blank when every emoji was removed from the reaction list<\/li>\n<li>Fixed the reaction picker still appearing on messages after reactions were switched off in the settings<\/li>\n<li>Fixed FluentCommunity's pull to refresh reloading the page while scrolling a conversation in an installed iOS app<\/li>\n<li>Other minor bugfixes and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>2.15.32<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chat rooms and conversations can now be exported as a transcript \u2014 plain text, a web page or a CSV spreadsheet<\/li>\n<li>Push notifications can now be delivered through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/docs\/integrations\/fluent-notify\/\">FluentNotify<\/a>, using a Firebase project you control<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a mini chat not opening for a chat room after the full screen view had been opened and closed<\/li>\n<li>Fixed incoming call notifications being hidden behind the full screen view, leaving no way to answer<\/li>\n<li>Added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/php-functions\/#get_group_call_participants\"><code>get_group_call_participants<\/code><\/a> PHP function \u2014 read how many people are in a conversation's group video or audio call<\/li>\n<li>Added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/js-functions\/#getGroupCallParticipants\"><code>BetterMessages.getGroupCallParticipants()<\/code><\/a> JavaScript function \u2014 the same counts on the page, over the WebSocket, with no request to your own server<\/li>\n<li>Added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/js-actions\/#better_messages_group_call_status\"><code>better_messages_group_call_status<\/code><\/a> JavaScript action \u2014 fires whenever a group call's participant count changes<\/li>\n<li>Added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/js-functions\/#subscribeGroupCallStatus\"><code>BetterMessages.subscribeGroupCallStatus()<\/code><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better-messages.com\/hooks\/js-functions\/#unsubscribeGroupCallStatus\"><code>unsubscribeGroupCallStatus()<\/code><\/a> \u2014 watch  &hellip;<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Real-time messaging and chat rooms for WordPress ecosystem: private conversations, public and private chat rooms, video &amp; audio calls, and 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