4 Chatboxes for wordpress.com blogs

Posted on March 7, 2010 by timethief

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Updated May 10, 2010  Chatroll widgets are no longer working on wordpress.com blogs. two chat bubbles

In January I was flabbergasted to read in a wordpress.com  forum thread that there were chatboxes that are iframes embeds operating on some wordpress.com blogs.  As there are some  that have passed through “filters” and are trusted by wordpress.com I don’t know why the support documentation does not reflect this. Perhaps  listing exceptions is problematic.  In addition to the meebo chatbox widgets that we can use on wordpress.com blogs, and there are three other options I want to share with my readers.

Google Talk chatback badges

To use chatback, you must have a Google Talk account … but your visitors don’t have to! They don’t even need to have an email address, or to have ever used instant messaging. See Howto: Google Talk badge on wordpress.com

Talkinator – Chat widget for WordPress.com

The idea behind Talkinator is that allowing readers to chat on your blog or website without the need to create a user or the need to download any software.

Chatroll.com for wordpress.com blogs – Chatroll widgets are no longer working on wordpress.com blogs.

No signup, no software, and no plugins are required.  Guests simply enter an name to participate. Create your Chatroll live chat widget and add it to your site in under a minute. If you register at chatroll.com you can put your own URL in the iframe code (see below) and use it in a text widget.  There’s  a working example of the Chatroll widget in the sidebar on this wordpress.com blog.

<iframe marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ src=”http://chatroll.com/snsdkorean-blog-chat/embed?fgcolor=4076b3&bgcolor=ffffff&textbgcolor=ffffff&textfgcolor=000000&sound=1&border=1&w=$0″ frameborder=”0″ height=”300″ scrolling=”no” width=”189″>

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