A chat for your WordPress site
A plugin from the WordPress directory, or one line in your theme footer. Either way your signed-in users arrive in the chat as themselves.
Your users are already signed in
Somebody logged into WordPress is logged into the chat, with their display name, avatar and a link to their profile.
Nothing on your server
No chat daemon, no extra database table, no cron job. WordPress hosting is not built to hold a thousand open connections; ours is.
It survives theme updates
Install the plugin rather than editing a theme and the next update does not quietly remove your chat.
Installing it
On WordPress, it goes here
Appearance → Theme File Editor → footer.php, just before </body>. On a block theme, or if you would rather not edit a theme that updates, use any header-and-footer-scripts plugin and paste it into the footer box.
Full instructionsQuestions
- Do I need the plugin, or will a script tag do?
- Either works. The plugin is better if other people manage the site, because it survives a theme update — a script tag pasted into a theme footer disappears the next time that theme is updated, and it is not obvious why the chat vanished.
- Are my WordPress users identified automatically?
- Yes. Somebody logged into WordPress arrives in the chat with their display name, avatar and a link to their profile, without registering a second time.
- Will it slow my site down?
- The script loads asynchronously after your page, so it cannot block rendering. Nothing runs on your server and no table is added to your database — shared WordPress hosting is not built to hold a thousand open connections, which is exactly why this does not ask it to.
- Does it work with WooCommerce?
- Yes, and a signed-in customer is already identified in the chat. A shop selling something people have opinions about usually gets more from a room where buyers talk to each other than from a support queue.
Try it on your site for fourteen days.
No card, and nothing to uninstall if you change your mind — it is one line.
Or look at what it does first
The feature pages cover the chat, the support side, moderation and single sign-on.