Seraph Chronicles

Shoutbox up!

Rejoice! My shoutbox is finally up, after searching for a suitable solution for implementing my shoutbox, from DIY codes to plugins, I finally settled on the Wordspew plugin by Jalenack. Unfortunately from his blog, he mentioned that he is no longer actively developing this plugin. However from what I tested out, it seems to serve well as a simple and easily customizable shoutbox, recommended for any bloggers who wants to have their own shoutbox. Installation is as easy as uploading the files to your Wordpress plugin folder, activating it and placing a snippet in the area where you want the shoutbox to appear. The rest is CSS to control the way the shoutbox looks, there’s even some options you can control from the Wordpress admin panel, such as the color of the fade in when a new message has been posted, the color of the name, for further styling you really need to get your hands dirty with some CSS. But hey, if you can manage to make your own Wordpress theme, styling this box should be simple, in fact it should still be fairly simple for bloggers with not much CSS experience.

Well now I hope this shoutbox will be put to good use. Happy shouting people