WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) v3
wow-instant-messenger
WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) is a World of Warcraft addon which brings an instant messenger feel to communication in game.
Features
- Whispers in their own windows.
- Chat in their own windows.
- Tabbed windows
- Highly configurable.
- History
- Copy and paste as:
- Raw Text
- BBCode
- Advanced, intellectual window behaviors & animations.
- Skins
- Emoticons
- Clickable web URLS for easy viewing. No more retyping a long url a friend sends you.
- Customizable sound options.
- Expose - great way to clear your screen of windows when you are in combat.
Known Issues
- Addons can not process messages while chat is in lock down. To get around this, WIM logs all events and then rebuilds and processes them once you have excited lock down. During this time, chat is routed as normal to the default chat frame so you don't miss anything. Unfortunately, /r and similar keybindings to reply during this time will NOT work. Allowing the default chat frame to handle these events cause severe tainting issues and breaks everything.
- Community Chat is now supported. It comes with limitations though because the sender name and message are protected and can not be read by addons or saved.
- No filtering
- No History
Addon Compatibility: (Always make sure you are running the latest versions.)
- Prat
- DBM
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RealPazza Owner
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humfras Author
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lucifercatnip Author
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sylvanaar Former Author
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Posted Nov 13, 2026Seems to not play well with Ellesmere minimap. Keeps a shadow of the old circle icon behind the new square icon
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Posted Nov 12, 2026Thank you RealPazza for keeping one of my favorite WoW addons alive and up to date..
the new UI for it is super cool.
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Posted Nov 12, 2026After the last Update every time I change my Interface in Edit Mode I get a notification that WIM will integrate itself but after reloading my UI other pars of the Interface are misplaced to unusable positions. Is there a way to prevent the automatic UI integration?
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Posted Nov 12, 2026@trastan This has been fixed in the next release.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026can't type a ? in the pop up. always populates into chat. even with the / keykind off
disabled every addon but this one and it still does it. it does work when I put a space first. is there a setting I am missing?
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Posted Nov 12, 2026@Tinter it's a side effect of the slash command handling I added. I with fix it ty
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Posted Nov 11, 2026Item tag been fixed yet for this? When I click Shift and click on an item, it doesn't post it into the chat window.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026Been having a weird issue with an addon, I individually disabled each addon to test which it was and it appears to be this one. The issue is that I am periodically getting the system message:
No player named 'Some Name' is currently playing.
This is happening a lot, and seems to have started happening a couple days ago.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@lunaris888 I tried deleting all history in the settings and the issue still persists. The issue seems to be coming up with the same names a lot, like I have seen 'Thegreat Albedo' many times as one of the names that does not exist.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@lunaris888 WIM isn't doing any outside communication. The only time you should see something like that in WIM is while sending a message to someone. You are certain you receive these messages when WIM is the only addon running?
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@RealPazza I didnt test it with wim as the only addon, I just tested with turning each addon off in turn and consistently turning wim off fixed it. But it could be that some other addon is conflicting with wim
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@lunaris888 The issue has resolved itself after updating to today's version (along with updates to some other addons), I'm not sure why. I'll post here if it starts up again.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026thank you for your continued work on this, it has changed how I communicate. I remember the day I downloaded this years ago, I'd never be able to live without it. Thanks again. I know Forever has been a challenge.
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@Kincayd <3
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Posted Nov 11, 2026since new update i cannot see my /w in chatwindow nor the responses....
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Posted Nov 11, 2026@user_a2z2yxir67j5joex wernt back to last "R" - works.
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Posted Nov 10, 2026Hi, In the chat window, the font size within the text input box does not adjust; even if you increase the font size elsewhere, it remains small inside the input box. Could an option be added to address this? Also, it used to be possible to invite players to a guild directly via the chat box—that button is now gone; is this no longer supported? Regards !!
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@godlike1 Unfortunately the edit box hasn't made it to the skinning engine yet and is on my todo list. So for the time being, the font can not be resized.
Guild Invites in Forever have been protected and are no longer accessible by addons.
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Posted Nov 9, 2026After update "Your WIM has been destroyed beyond repair. This bug has been fixed but your messages cannot be recovered." This is happening every reload. I've cleared saved variables, I even copy/pasted my WTF folder to the desktop then deleted the WTF folder and let Warcraft rebuild it, I then re-installed WIM and yet again, after a reload, the addon bugs out.
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Posted Nov 9, 2026@user_mh1pa2k0rtb3siaf Only seems to happen when communicating with a player that is on your friends list via adding their character as a friend/not a battlenet friend. Weird behaviour also appears while the bug occurs, the WIM window title becomes corrupted showing their character name twice i.e. <PlayerName> (PlayerName) with the second entry (PlayerName) becoming weirdly formatted and uses an irregular font.