Chat Ping

Never miss the messages that matter.

Chat Pinghighlights your chosen keywords in chat and can optionally play a subtle sound ping when a match appears.

Features

• Highlight keywords in chat messages in real time.
• Organize keywords by channel bucket.
• Use Global keywords (all characters) or Character keywords (current character only).
• Pick Contains or Starts with matching mode for each keyword.
• Set an optional per-keyword color, plus a global fallback highlight color.
• Enable optional sound pings with smart conditions.
• Ignore your own messages (enabled by default).

Channel Buckets

Quick Start

1. Type /ca to open settings.
2. Pick a Scope and Channel Bucket.
3. Enter a keyword, choose mode, optionally set a color, then click Add New.
4. Turn on Enable sound ping if you want audio alerts.

Chat Alert includes one starter keyword by default: summon.

Slash Commands

• /ca or /chatalert - Open settings.
• /ca show - Open settings.
• /ca add <global|char> <bucket> <contains|starts_with> <keyword> [hexColor]
• /ca remove <global|char> <bucket> <keyword>
• /ca list [global|char] [bucket]
• /ca sound <on|off>
• /ca smart [on|off] (with no argument, prints current smart-condition status)

Bucket Tokens for Commands

whisper, guild, party, raid, instance, say, yell, trade, general, other

Short aliases also work: w, g, pr, inst, tg.

Notes

• Hex colors must be 6 digits, for example FFD100 or #FFD100.
• Single-word keywords in Contains mode match whole words to reduce false positives.
• If the same keyword exists in both scopes, the Character version takes priority.