Free Website Chat Room for WordPress – A Complete List of Options

If you’re looking for a free, customizable chat room for your site, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve collected a comprehensive list of options that you can use to set up your very own instant messenger within seconds.

Just copy and paste the HTML code from any of these web sites into your WordPress dashboard to get started. You can also find a quick tutorial for each step of the way if you’re not quite sure how to use these platforms.

Conversations

One of the simplest and most elegant free website chat rooms is Conversations. It’s a minimalist site with a beautiful, intuitive interface that gets the job done. While there isn’t a lot of customization, you can set up a quick, no-fuss conversation with up to five other people. You can choose the background image, select a color scheme, and choose a font for the chat room itself.

The people behind Conversations make sure that their software is always up to date and that it’s compatible with the newest versions of the most popular web browsers. They also maintain a close partnership with WordPress, the most popular content management system in the world, which means that they’re always ready to help whenever you have questions about using the platform.

LiveChat

LiveChat is basically the same as Conversations, except that it offers richer features than the basic website chat room. For example, you can have up to ten people in a live chat room at a time, have individual rooms for up to thirty people, and you can enable live video calls for real-time chats when others participate remotely. For a more traditional experience, you can take a closer look at the features that they offer with this link.

The main difference between the two sites is that LiveChat is less of a direct competitor to Teams and more geared toward small and big businesses that need a free, customizable instant messenger.

Slack

Slack is the granddaddy of them all, the Mark Downed-founded company that basically invented the concept of modern-day workplace instant messaging. While they’ve certainly evolved since their founding in 2014, the basics of creating a workspace chat room remain the same: you get basic presence management (the option to leave a note for others when they join the chat room), an activity stream (where you can see who’s doing what in the chat room), and group conversations (where you can have up to 100 people in a single chat room).

What makes Slack special is that they’ve built an entire platform around workplace chat rooms and have made it incredibly easy and unintrusive to set up a private, ad-free workspace that you can use to connect with colleagues and receive support when you need it.

One thing to keep in mind if you go this route is that Slack is owned by Facebook, which means that all your chats and data are stored in the massive social media company’s servers. While this might be convenient in some ways (it certainly is for storing and accessing large amounts of data), it’s important to set up private and public chats on Slack separately. If you want to keep your private chats secure, it’s better to host them on a server that you control.

Teams

Teams is a bit like Slack, but it was built from the ground up to be a corporate-level communications platform designed for businesses. You get the basic features of a workspace chat room (including the group chat), along with an additional set of tools that are geared toward helping you run your business. You can create up to 500 groups (called “channels”) to organize your discussions and you can put unlimited teams into a workspace.

What makes Teams even more compelling is that it was built by the folks who created Highrise (which we mentioned earlier in this article), a popular task management app for professionals. While the premise behind the two products is miles apart, the results are stunning: an elegant interface that makes it easy to connect with colleagues and make quick work of things.

Another major advantage of using Teams is that the platform is available for both iOS and Windows devices, as well as Android through their own App store. This makes it extremely portable and easy to access from anywhere in the world.

If you’re looking for a free, easy-to-use service that provides a collaborative workspace for your business, try out Teams. It’s maintained by a team of experienced developers who are available to help should you have any questions or need support using the platform.

Matrix

Matrix is another one of the big guns in the online workplace chat space and, like Slack and Teams, it was founded by a former Google employee. One of the things that make Matrix special is that they’ve built a standalone application that you can use to create and join groups, as well as to participate in threaded conversations. The software is available for MacOS, Linux, and Windows devices, as well as your mobile phone.

What sets Matrix apart from the other two services is the level of personalization that you can have within your workspace. The software is loaded with features that allow you to make the space your own and to create content-rich groups that you can promote across social media platforms.

Also, while your other options above offer you a fully customizable workspace with the ability to have private or public chats, group conversations, and group photos, Matrix provides you with an elegant, minimalist interface that allows you to focus on your work.

Zoom

Last but not least, we have Zoom. It’s hard to believe that this was once one of the lesser-known, somewhat unknown companies that you’ve probably never heard of. They didn’t start out as an online workplace chat platform, but they’ve evolved into what they are today — the most popular tool in the space for video conferencing and online meetings. What makes Zoom special is that they’ve taken the concept of a traditional online meeting room (one that you can find in a host of different software packages) and made it incredibly easy to use. Plus, with its web interface and mobile apps available for both iOS and Android, you can access your meeting room wherever you want — even if you’re on the move.

You get all the basics of a workspace, including a choice of background images, colors, and fonts. Once you have your workspace set up, you can choose whether or not to enable video recording and share your screen with others during a meeting.

Another great thing about Zoom is that it provides you with a fully featured dashboard that you can use to manage your account, set up meetings, and get assistance should you need it. No need to run around looking for an email address or phone number to contact the company to get help — everything you need is right there in the dashboard.

There are dozens more options (mostly web apps) out there that provide similar services, but these are the most popular ones. If you have a web site that you need a free, easy-to-use workspace for, these are the platforms that you should try out.

Creating a private, secure workspace that you can use to communicate with colleagues is a breeze with these tools. Just copy and paste the HTML code from any of them into your WordPress dashboard to get started. For even more options, check out the Free Workplace Chat Rooms section of our website.