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 communities. All Chatroll live communities can be easily used as embedded chat rooms. Here’s how:
- Create a Chatroll live community to use for your chat room.
Go to Chatroll, enter your community’s name in the “Name Your Live Community…” box and click “Create”. Choose a name that fits with your blog, as this name will appear in the chat box title. Write an attractive and detailed description so that people can easily find your new Chatroll community (this will also help drive traffic to your blog). - Copy the embed code from the community’s home page. On your live community’s home page (the page that appears after your community has been created) you’ll find a text box labeled ‘embed’ under the chat window. Click the embed code and copy it.
- 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:
The Chatroll Blog – Fullscreen
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 use Blogger or WordPress, be sure check out these helpful articles as well!
- Add a Free Blogger Chat Box Widget to Your Blogspot Blog
- Add a Free WordPress Chat Box to Your Blog in 60 Seconds!
If you have any questions, head over to the Chatroll Support community and members of the Chatroll team will be happy to help!
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Hi, I really liked the format of this chat room. I used this and replaced the old Meebo one I had on my website at http://www.FindEnglishTeacher.com
Thanks!!
Thanx! i have found many chatroom code but only this chatroom style i like.
we’d like to add chat in a couple areas of our site. what’s the best direction?
Its a nice chat feature… but the idea of having us signup on your other site is GARBAGE !
I would rather pay for the plugin then not have control over what ever you do by having us sign up on your other site
Hi POS,
Chatroll does in fact have this feature! The Single Sign-On (SSO) feature lets users from your website sign in automatically into Chatroll, and doesn’t require your users to have a Chatroll account.
Thanks for your feedback!
Jonathan
hi jonathan, i really like chatrolls freatures. my only concern is the mention of chatroll’s open access for credits$. When you say it’s to give access when a blog roll is full, what is meant by full? Could this affect many of my users? thanks, i look forward to using this product.
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