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Pusher Chatkit is shutting down

Pusher announced that they are discontinuing Chatkit. We discuss how you can migrate quickly to CometChat.

Keeping PHI Secure: A Guide to Choosing a HIPAA Compliant Chat API

If your business handles protected health information (PHI), your chat app has to be HIPAA-compliant. This guide can help you choose a HIPAA compliant chat API.

Response to COVID-19

How CometChat is ensuring the safety and well-being of their team members and customers.

Allow WordPress users to chat together with this plugin

CometChat Go [https://cometchat.com/go] is a beautiful white-label WordPress user chat plugin that's easy to install and configure.

CometChat Pro December update

At CometChat, we're on a mission to help you add chat to your website and mobile app through tools that are simple enough for anyone to use yet robust enough to power the world's most demanding apps. To realize this mission, we are constantly improving our product and resources.

How to choose between Firebase and CometChat Pro

Building rich messaging for your app might seem simple at first, but things can quickly escalate when you start to think about advanced features, edge-cases, and how to manage your chat infrastructure at scale. To overcome these challenges, you have several solutions available, but how do they compare? In this article, I will compare Firebase [https://firebase.

5 ways to make money on WordPress you've never thought of (do these before they become saturated)

Monetizing a website is a challenge. There are dozens of online platforms competing for your users’ attention, trying to keep them engaged and away from the competition.

Make money on WordPress with premium-only chat

Real-time chat room is a great feature to enable collaboration and increase engagement on a website. In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to add a chat room feature into your WordPress site by using CometChat, a robust and fully-featured chat plugin for WordPress that makes your website chat ready in minutes.

Top 30+ world-famous excellent websites that use WordPress

Today WordPress continues to be the most popular tool for building websites and perhaps the most simple and trusted content management system in the world. According to W3Techs Web Technology Surveys [https://w3techs.

Hand-picked Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals that will save you money

Everyone makes Black Friday deals list, and we thought we would make the same old list this year too. But then someone in the office said: "everyone and their uncle has a BF deals list - you better go big or go home!".

Announcing the new CometChat

We are CometChat ☄️ [https://www.cometchat.

Why your chat notifications might go undelivered, and what you can do about it

The average deliver rate for push notifications is between 14% and 48%. Read why notifications go undelivered and what you can do.

"We delivered way more functionality than if we tried to build something from scratch" - Callum from Soona

Building real time chat from scratch is hard. And the team at Soona recognized this from the get go.

Which CometChat product is right for you?

Choosing between CometChat Go & Pro can be difficult at times. Here is a single question you can ask yourself to help decide which product to use.

CometChat Pro November update

This month CometChat Pro got a brand new look, new tutorials, and a healthy dollop of new features which - if you are embarking on an ambitious chat project - we know you are going to love. The new CometChat Pro Our history started in bustling Mumbai where CometChat was founded and bootstrapped by twin brothers Anant [https://www.

Announcing Thumbnail Generation

Save bandwidth and improve the user experience of your CometChat chat app by enabling automatic thumbnail generation for images and videos.

5 compelling reasons to add instant message translation to your chat app

Recently we announced instant message translation [/blog/translate-messages-in-your-chat-app/] - an impactful CometChat extension that enables you to smash the language barrier within your chat app. Current CometChat users can turn on the extension today ✨.

Smash the language barrier: Announcing real-time message translation

The internet has connected the world in ways which no one could have imagined. How else could someone from Wales 🇬🇧 meet and talk with someone from Mumbai 🇮🇳 if not for an online chat? And while many people in Mumbai speak excellent English, many do not.