Add a Chat Room to Your Blog in 3 Easy Steps

So you’ve decided to add chat functionality to your blog or website. Chat rooms are a great way to let your visitors meet each other and discuss your content. Chat creates a community feel and adds interactivity that can set your blog apart from the rest and keep your visitors coming back!

We’ve put together 3 easy-to-follow steps to embed a chat room in your blog or website using Chatroll live forums. All Chatroll live forums can be easily used as embedded chat rooms. Here’s how:

1. Choose a live forum to use for your chat room. Go to Chatroll and explore the existing live forums. You can browse forums by category or search forums by keyword. If you prefer to make your own forum (for example, a forum named after your blog or web site), you can easily create a forum instead.
2. Copy the embed code from the forum’s home page. On the forum’s home page (for example, http://chatroll.com/food/recipe-share) you’ll find a text box labeled ‘embed’ under the chat window. Click the embed code and copy it.
3. Paste the embed code in your blog or web site. Paste the code where you would like the chat room to appear in your site. If you have a blog, you can either place the chat room in individual posts, or you can create a dedicated page on your blog to host the chat.

(IMPORTANT: If you are using the Wordpress Visual Editor, or other visual editors, make sure to switch to HTML editor mode, otherwise Wordpress will remove the embed code! This is a known issue with Wordpress.)

That’s it! You should now have a fully functional chat room in your blog. Here’s what it should look like:

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You can now hang out in your new chat room by opening the page where you embedded the chat. It’s that easy! Go ahead and visit Chatroll to customize your profile and learn what else you can do with your chat room, such as posting videos, photos, links, and more. If you have any questions, head over to the Chatroll feedback forum and members of the Chatroll team will be happy to help!