[WordPress] 外掛分享： LobbyChat

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LobbyChat is a lightweight live-chat shoutbox you can drop into any WordPress page or sidebar with a single shortcode. Built for communities — fan sites, forums, fandoms, classrooms, internal teams — where you want a casual, always-on group chat without bolting on Slack or Discord.
What you get

Live chat feed with auto-refresh (configurable polling interval — no WebSocket server required)
Guest posting — visitors can chat with just a display name, no signup wall
Emoji reactions on every message — 👍 ❤️ 😂 🔥 🎉
Link previews for YouTube and any URL with Open Graph tags
@mention highlighting — @username gets visually picked out
Pinned messages — moderators can pin one important message above the feed
Online presence — live count of members, guests, and search-engine bots in the room
Moderator role — add a “LobbyChat Moderator” role to any user for pin/delete powers
Reporting + auto-hide — 5 reports on a message and it’s hidden automatically
Word blocklist for basic profanity filtering
Rate limiting built in — separate cooldowns for guests vs members
Fullscreen mode + collapse toggle
Sound notification for new messages (toggleable per-visitor)
Mobile responsive

Optional: AI Chat Companion
LobbyChat ships with an optional AI bot you can drop into your chat. The bot uses your own API keys — you bring your own Google Gemini key (the free tier works) or OpenAI key. The plugin does not route requests through any third-party server.

Bring-your-own-key — Gemini (free tier) or OpenAI (paid)
Configurable persona — name, system prompt, custom personality
Smart triggers — replies to @mentions always; questions usually; random messages occasionally (all configurable)
Hard rate limits — daily and hourly caps protect against runaway API costs
Active-hours window — bot only chats during the hours you specify
One-click test in the admin to verify the bot can post

Privacy & data
LobbyChat does not call any third-party server by default. The only network calls are:

Fetching link previews when a user shares a URL (request goes from your server to that URL)
Calling Google Gemini or OpenAI only if you explicitly enable the AI bot and provide an API key

No telemetry, no analytics, no “phone home.” All data lives in your own wp_lobbychat* tables.
Try it live
See LobbyChat running in production at bejaunty.com/plugins/lobbychat.
Roadmap
LobbyChat is the free, standalone version. Premium add-ons with gaming-community features — looking-for-group buttons, platform tags, profile-card integration, and richer moderation tools — are in development. Updates and announcements at bejaunty.com.
Support development
LobbyChat is free and developed in spare time. If it helps your community, you can support development at wise.com/pay/me/asadk372. Every bit is appreciated. ♥
Usage
After activating, drop this shortcode into any page, post, or text widget:
[lobbychat]

Then visit Settings → LobbyChat to configure rate limits, blocklist, and other options. For the AI bot, see Settings → LobbyChat AI Bot.
Developer hooks
LobbyChat exposes several filters and actions for theme/plugin developers:

lobbychat_after_send — action, fires after a message is saved. do_action('lobbychat_after_send', $user_id, $message_id, $row) — the third arg is the database row object.
lobbychat_profile_url — filter, override the URL linked from a username (default: WP author archive)
lobbychat_allowed_reactions — filter, override the array of allowed reaction emoji
lobbychat_report_threshold — filter, change the auto-hide report threshold (default: 5)

External services
This plugin does not connect to any external service by default. Two optional features may, only when explicitly enabled by the site administrator, contact third-party services:
1. Link previews
When the link-sharing feature is enabled (Settings → LobbyChat → “Allow link sharing”, which is on by default), and a logged-in user shares a URL in chat, the plugin’s server fetches that URL once to extract Open Graph / Twitter /