Title: Live Support Desk Author: rcaddoux Published: 23.07.2015 Last modified: 01.10.2015 --- Поиск плагинов ![](https://ps.w.org/live-support-desk/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=1266553) Этот плагин **не тестировался с последними 3 основными выпусками WordPress**. Скорее всего, он уже не поддерживается и может быть несовместим с текущими версиями WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/live-support-desk/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1204864) # Live Support Desk Автор: [rcaddoux](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rcaddoux/) [Скачать](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/live-support-desk.zip) * [Детали](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/live-support-desk/#description) * [Отзывы](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/live-support-desk/#reviews) * [Установка](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/live-support-desk/#installation) * [Разработка](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/live-support-desk/#developers) [Поддержка](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-support-desk/) ## Описание Live Support Desk puts voice, text, and video chats right in your WordPress site. Designed to work whether you are on your own or have a support team of agents. Quick and easy to install. * Easy to install : our intuitive configuration menu lets you quickly insert live chat windows right into the your site. Just select your preferences and the short code is generated for you. * Simple for your visitors : when people visit your site they’ll see clickable chat windows right in the pages you choose. One click and they’re connected to someone who is ready to help them out. This all happens without a visitor ever needing to download an external application or leave your site. * Control every aspect of the chat : Different chat styles can be selected between text only or video and voice chats. Choose to enable or disable text chatting as part of your voice or video chats. Use different chat styles in different pages. In addition, choose whether or not to give your visitors and agents control of their media functions, such as cutting their web cam or audio feed with just the click of a button. * White brand : our clean, neutral interface looks natural in the page. Customize everything from the size of the display to the features that appear in the window. * Adapted to your organisation : Add agent logins and define their roles and streamline requests to the right agents. Set up an agent chat window to receive any chat requests they are assigned to handle. So no need to give employees access to your WordPress Dashboard. * Adapted to your process : Use a waiting queue that lets clients know their place in line or use a regular Accept/Ignore request management style that notifies you when somebody wants to chat. Possibility to display a custom page in place of the chat window when nobody is on line. For more details, check out our website http://plugins.bistri.com/ ### How-to Guides Here are some resources to help you get started. #### Creating Agents and Roles This is where you create login IDs for your agents, and roles that you will assign to chat windows and agents. 1. **Live Support Desk Dashboard Tab** — Hover over the Live Support Desk tab on your Dashboard. Click on Manage Agents. 2. **Manage Agents** — Click Add at the top of the page. The login is the username that an agent will enter when he or she logs in. You’ll need to assign roles to that agent. «Support» is a default role that you can use as a placeholder if you haven’t created any of your own roles yet. The role or roles that you assign to this agent will determine which chat windows they receive chat requests from. They’ll receive all incoming requests from chat windows matching their roles. 3. **Roles** — Create the roles you assign to agents and chat windows. A role is a designation that you give to an agent or chat window to determine where chat requests go. You can add as many roles as you want to an agent. A chat window can only have 1 role. Set up roles for chat windows or pages in your site, and then assign the role to qualified agents. 4. **Manage Roles** — Hover back over the Live Support Desk tab on the Dashboard sidebar. Click on Manage Roles. Click Add at the top of the page. All you have to do is give a name to the role you’d like to add and click Add Role. You can then assign these roles to agents and chat windows. When you are creating roles, just think of the function that you’d like a particular chat window to fill. _Chat requests are sent to agents from chat windows matching their roles. All agents receive all requests from chat windows with their matching roles._ #### Setting up a Chat Window _This is a lot of text, but this can all be done in just a few seconds once you know what you’re doing._ **Access your WordPress Dashboard** — Find Live Support Desk in the settings tab on your dashboard. Configuring the plugin with your API Key is a one time thing. No need to worry about that again. * Decide what type of «Request Management Settings» you’d like to use. For a smaller business we recommend using Direct Connect. If you have lots of agents connected at once, it will be more effective to use a Waiting Queue style. _The Request Management Settings decide how incoming requests are processed by agents. If you have a Waiting Queue, calls will be put in a first come, first served queue. An agent just clicks on a prompt to take the next request in line. Direct Connect is more like a standard call. Agents will be notified of an incoming request and can decide whether to Accept/Ignore._ _Note: If you change this setting it will change the Request Management Style for all the chat windows on your site. This is not assigned on a window to window basis._ **Unavailable Message** — You can create a custom page with a personalized message that will appear in place of the chat window if nobody is available. You can use this feature to direct clients to a page of your choice when nobody is online. If you don’t want to do that, you can just display our default message. _Keep in mind that people will still be able to join the queue if all agents are in a chat._ _Note: Setting up Screen Sharing is also one of the options on the settings page. We have a separate How-to for that. It isn’t necessary to set this up to start using the other features._ **Pages** — Once you’ve Saved Your Changes in the settings, go to Pages in the Dashboard side bar and choose a page where you’d like to insert a chat window. You can do this on a new page or an existing page. You can do this all over your site, on as many pages as you want, with as many different types of chat windows as you’d like. * Above the text editor you’ll see a Live Support Desk icon. Click on that icon and configure your chat window from the options in the short code generator. It will say «Create Chat Window» at the top. * Create Chat Window — You’ll see that there are several options to choose from on the short code generator. We’ll break it down step by step. **Type** — Choose between «Customer» or «Agent» windows. When you select «Customer» you will be creating the type of chat window that a visitor will see. They just have to click on it to request a chat. By selecting «Agent» you’ll be setting up an agent-facing window that will present agents with a login screen. Agents will be eligible to receive chat requests through the window just by navigating to the page where you put it and logging in. This makes it so you don’t have to give agents access to your WordPress Dashboard. **Role** — You’re choosing what this chat is for. Choose which agents will receive requests from this particular chat window. When agents are logged in, they are able to receive chat requests pertaining to their assigned roles. If you assign this window with Support, any agent who has the assigned role of Support will receive requests from this window. Agents can have multiple roles, so if you’re limited on agents you can have agents receive requests from multiple chat windows. _Note: When you select an Agent window the Role menu is greyed out. This is because this menu only affects customer-facing windows. Agent windows are role neutral to limit the amount that you have to create. An agent who is logged into the agent window will receive any chat requests that pertain to the agent’s assigned roles._ **Layout** — This menu lets you choose the style of chat window you’d like to display. You can decide whether you’d like to have the controls and the self-facing display on the right or left side in side-to-side layouts. You can also choose vertical for a layout with a more prominent video stream. You can also use text-only chat. **Media Source** — Choose the quality of the video resolution here. You can also select an audio-only chat window if that fits your needs better. As with anything, the quality of your image and audio will also largely depend on the power of participating machines and their connections. _Don’t be overly ambitious with the quality you select. In order for the plugin to function at its best you should select appropriate settings. While the plugin is capable of great quality, it won’t magically make a computer more powerful or an internet connection faster._ **Enable Text Chat** — Keep this box checked if you’d like text chat to be enabled in the window. This allows you to have a text chat going with the person you are talking to in voice or video chats. **Enable Media Controls** — Have this box checked to give a client or agent the ability to cut their microphone, camera, or sound. If you’d like these controls disabled just make sure this box is unchecked. _Disabling text chat and media controls might be useful if you want a really basic looking chat window integrated into your page. This will remove the icons that surround the video feed. We keep the chat window clean to begin with, but this just enables you to have a simpler interface if that’s what you need._ **Enable Screen Sharing** — Check this box to enable screen-sharing when it is configured. This process is a little more involved, and requires a couple extra steps. There is a detailed explanation in the How-to guides. **Chat Window Width/Height** — These two spaces let you define the size of the chat window. You can either set a size in Pixels or a % of the available page space. Tinker with this to find a size that works. The size of the window will max out at 100% of the available space if you set a number of pixels that is too large. _Note: If you set the window really small the chat features and media controls will not be visible._ **Insert Short Code** — The chat window (in the form of short code) will be inserted into the text box in your page editor. **Test It Out** — Open up a private browsing window and navigate to the page you just configured the chat window for. * Once you’ve done that go back to the browser window where your Dashboard is open and go to the Live Support Desk icon in your Dashboard Sidebar. Click on Desk. * Go back to the private window and refresh the page. You will give access to your microphone and webcam by simply clicking the prompt. * Click on the chat window and you’ll receive a request in the Live Support Desk. Accept the request and you have hosted a video chat (or another kind of chat) with yourself. _To test an agent window just follow this same process in reverse. Keep a customer window configured and open up both the agent window and the customer window in private browsing windows. Log into the agent-facing window. Go back to your customer window and send yourself a chat request._ _NOTE: Make sure the agent ID you use for your test has the role that you assigned to the customer chat window you are testing from. If you get an unavailable message try refreshing._ **There are more How-to guides on our website:** [http://plugins.bistri.com/how-to-guides/](http://plugins.bistri.com/how-to-guides/) ## Скриншоты * [[ * A screenshot of your account creation * [[ * Chat support * [[ * Video Support — Agent view * [[ * Video Support — Customer view ## Установка #### From your WordPress Dashboard * Click «Install Now» on the plugin page. * From installed plugins tab, click «Activate». #### From WordPress.org * Download Live Support Desk plugin. * From your dashboard, click «Add New» in the plugins tab. * Click «Upload Plugin» > select the Live Support Desk .zip from your downloaded files. * Click «Install Now» and once installed, click «Activate». #### Quick Start * Go to «Live Support Desk» > «Manage Account» > «Signup» and create your account. * Don’t forget to confirmed your account creation ! * Go to «Manage Account» > «Create Application». * Once the application has been created, copy the API Key. * Go to «Settings» > «Live Support Desk» and paste the API Key in the appropriate field. * Don’t forget to save the settings ! * Now you must create the «Support» page, this is the page that will be used by the customers to require assistance: - create a new page and click on the button with the label «Live Support Desk» above the text editor. - in the popup, set the field «type» to «customer», then click on «insert» and finally save the page. * Then, you must create the «Agent» page, this is the page that will be used by agents to manage/answer support requests. - declare an agent (the person who had the ability to answer to support requests): go to «Live Support Desk» > «Add agent» and create a new agent. - create a new page and click on the button with the label «Live Support Desk» above the text editor. - in the popup, set the field «type» to «agent», then click on «insert» and finally save the page. * Now it’s set up and ready to go ! #### Advanced Settings * Go to «Live Support Desk» > «Settings» and configure the following options: - Unavailable Message: Choose the page what you’d like to display when there is no agent online. - Request Management Style, this decides how incoming support requests are handled by your agents: * waiting Queue: put requests in a first come, first served queue. Agents will just click on a prompt to connect to the next request. * direct Connect: when requests come in, agents will have the opportunity to Accept/Ignore the request. - Screen Sharing: No mandatory to start. For more information on how to set up screen sharing, check out the How-to on that subject in our website. * Save changes. ## Часто задаваемые вопросы CAN I HAVE SOME EXPLANATIONS ABOUT SETTINGS ? * Unavailable Message: Choose the option what you’d like to display when there is no agent online. * Request Management Style: This decides how incoming chat requests are handled by your agents. * Waiting Queue : put requests in a first come, first served queue. Agents will just click on a prompt to connect to the next request. Direct Connect : when requests come in, agents will have the opportunity to Accept/Ignore the request.* * Screen Sharing: No mandatory to start. For more information on how to set up screen sharing, check out the How-to on that subject in our website. WHERE DO I FIND MY API KEY? * Your API Key is found in your application details in the manage account section. When you configure the plugin you create an account, as well as an application. When you create your application you are given an API Key. * Just go to manage account in the Live Support Desk tab on your Dashboard and click on your application. You’ll see your API Key there. * If you haven’t set up your developer account or your application, you can see how to do this by reading the instructions on the installation page, or in the how-to guides on our website.* DOES THE BASIC PLAN INCLUDE ALL THE FEATURES? Yes. All the pricing plans that service our WordPress plugin include all the plugin features. We know that most small businesses around the world are made up of one employee. When we were creating this plugin we noticed that there was no solution for these really small businesses. The number of employees shouldn’t determine the features your company’s website is able to have. A lot of other solutions don’t offer all their features with their cheapest plans. They also require you to talk with a sales agent to get set up. We want it to be easy for everyone to get exactly what they need right away. DO I HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERY AGENT ID I CREATE? No. Creating agent IDs is just a feature of the plugin. You can have as many agent logins as you want. When you’re paying for additional agents, you’re paying for the number of simultaneously connected agents you need. Our pricing model is structured around the number of agents you have logged in at the same time. You might have 8 employees, but only ever have 4 working at the same time. You don’t need to pay for 8 agents if you aren’t going to have 8 agents logged in at once. Just pay for the maximum number of agents you would have logged in at once. Just make sure your agents log out at the end of their shifts. This will prevent it from looking like there are agents available when there actually aren’t. It will also ensure that all of your agents in later shifts are able to connect. WILL THE PLUGIN WORK ON A MOBILE DEVICE? The plugin will work on an Android device. Unfortunately WebRTC isn’t compatible with Safari yet, so it won’t work on an iPhone or iPad. WILL THE PLUGIN WORK ON ANY BROWSER? The plugin works on any browser that supports WebRTC, and some browsers don’t support WebRTC yet. The most common desktop browsers, Chrome and Firefox, support WebRTC. Notable browsers that don’t support the plugin are Internet Explorer and Safari. In addition to being available on Chrome and Firefox, the plugin will also work on Opera. While it is not available on Safari or Internet Explorer, most expect these browsers (and Edge, Microsoft’s next browser) to integrate WebRTC as demand grows. You can also install WebRTC browser plugins that make it work on Safari or Explorer. IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE AMOUNT OF TIME I CAN SPEND IN A CALL, OR THE NUMBER OF CALLS I CAN HOST? The plans for WordPress users are unlimited. You’ll never have to shut down customer support or reschedule appointments because you’re running low on calls or minutes. Feel free to take the time you need with your clients and visitors. There are so many different uses for these solutions that the only one size fits all plan is unlimited. That being said, our service is subject to fair use. We didn’t put a number on this because every business is different. We understand that you can’t control the number of requests that come your way, or how long it takes to resolve an issue. There’s no problem with having a lot of clients and getting a lot of requests. But we can tell the difference between a thriving business with a high volume of requests, and a site that is gaming our system. If we get the sense that you are abusing our service, your account will be subject to termination. CAN I MAKE A CALL TOWARDS SOMEONE ELSE? This is an incoming request solution. If people want to get in touch with you they will now be able to contact you right in your site. You’ll still have to reach out to people by going towards them. **Check out our website’s FAQ page for more info:** [http://plugins.bistri.com/faqs/](http://plugins.bistri.com/faqs/) ## Отзывы Нет отзывов об этом плагине. ## Участники и разработчики «Live Support Desk» — проект с открытым исходным кодом. В развитие плагина внесли свой вклад следующие участники: Участники * [ rcaddoux ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rcaddoux/) * [ Bistri ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bistricom/) [Перевести «Live Support Desk» на ваш язык.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/live-support-desk) ### Заинтересованы в разработке? [Посмотрите код](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-support-desk/), проверьте [SVN репозиторий](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/live-support-desk/), или подпишитесь на [журнал разработки](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/live-support-desk/) по [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/live-support-desk/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Журнал изменений #### 1.0 * First release #### 1.1 * Minor enhancement #### 1.2 * Minor enhancement #### 1.3 * Fix chat window broken layout (waiting queue mode) #### 1.3.1 * Minor bug fixes #### 1.3.2 * Minor bug fixes #### 1.3.3 * Stability improvement #### 1.3.4 * Fix buggy uninstall process #### 1.3.5 * Minor bug fixes #### 1.3.6 * Minor bug fixes #### 1.4 * New backoffice integration ## Мета * Версия **1.4** * Обновление: **11 лет назад** * Активных установок: **10+** * Версия WordPress ** 3.0.1 или выше ** * Совместим вплоть до: **4.0.38** * Язык * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-support-desk/) * Метки: * [call](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/call/)[chat](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chat/) [text](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/text/)[video](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video/) [video chat](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-chat/) * [Дополнительно](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/live-support-desk/advanced/) ## Оценки Пока что нет ни одного отзыва. 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