Chat Channel Buttons

Chat Channel Buttons adds a small bar of colored circular buttons that lets you instantly switch between chat channels with a single click.

The bar can be freely positioned anywhere on your screen — simply drag it to the desired location and lock it in place. The addon is lightweight, simple, and designed to integrate cleanly with both the default UI and ElvUI.

Instead of typing /s, /y, /em, /g, /o, /p, /raid, /i, or /bg, you can switch channels instantly without interrupting anything you've already typed.

Features

Small colored circular buttons, freely positionable on screen
Quick switching between chat channels with a single click
Button colors match your personal chat color settings
Automatically hides buttons when a channel is unavailable
Per-channel visibility overrides — permanently suppress any individual button from the config panel
Horizontal or vertical layout (configurable)
Adjustable button size (10–32 px)
Adjustable spacing between buttons
Frame position saved between sessions
Lock / unlock the bar position via slash command or the config panel
Minimap button — left-click opens settings, right-click shows or hides the button bar
Button bar show/hide state remembered across sessions
Works with both the default UI and ElvUI
Lightweight and performance-friendly

Supported Chat Channels

The addon provides buttons for the following channels:

Say — always available
Yell — always available
Emote — always available
Guild — available when you are in a guild
Officer — available when you have officer chat access
Party — available when you are in a party but not a raid
Raid — available when you are in a raid
Instance Chat — available when you are in an instance group
Battleground — available when you are in an instance group

Buttons appear only when the corresponding channel is available. The layout automatically reflows so there are never empty gaps.

Individual buttons can also be permanently hidden through the config panel's Hide Channels section, regardless of game state.

How It Works

The button bar appears wherever you last placed it.

Clicking a button switches the active chat channel.

If the chat input box is already open, any text you have typed is preserved — only the channel changes.
If the chat input box is closed, it opens directly in the selected channel.

Slash Commands

/ecb or /ecb config  – open the settings panel
/ecb lock            – lock the bar position
/ecb unlock          – unlock the bar so it can be moved

Compatibility

World of Warcraft Retail / Midnight
Default UI
ElvUI compatible

The addon does not modify ElvUI and works as a lightweight extension. When ElvUI is loaded, the button edges receive a subtle glow to match ElvUI's visual style.

Lightweight Design

The addon is intentionally minimal:

no heavy UI
no unnecessary settings
no performance impact

Author

Created by Ievgen Pavlenko

Easy Chat Channel Buttons