How to Add Live Chat and Forum to Your Website for Free

Excellent communication with customers is essential for any business. Today, there are thousands of online tools to help you build a great relationship with your website visitors. Let’s take a look at the best plugins for creating forums and adding chat to website.

When creating your site at Webnode, you can add your favourite plugins for live chat or a forum quickly and easily. Are you wondering how to embed a live chat widget or a forum widget to your website? In general, any widget can be added to your website at Webnode with an embedded code. The service will generate it for you. Then you place the codes in your project. Don’t worry. We have tutorials prepared for you, so you can start building your online community right away.

How to add live chat to website on Webnode

Tawk.to chat window

If you’d like to contact your visitors in real-time and offer them help with your products or services, your best bet is to add live chat to your website. This way, you can create a website that provides constant interaction between yourself and your customers. You can find many free website chat widgets online. One of the most popular is Messenger by Facebook. You can also embed a chat widget by Tawk.to or LiveSupporti, Tidio and many others.

LiveSupporti chat window

How to add facebook messenger to website on Webnode

With 2.6 billion users, Facebook Messenger is probably the most accessible tool to engage with your visitors. However, to add Messenger to your website, you need to set up a Facebook Business Profile Page. Learn how to add Facebook chat to a website here.

Facebook Messenger chat window

How to add a forum to your website

Suppose you’re looking for a tool to make a forum where your visitors can express their opinion and so build your community, try Disqus. This tool lets you keep track of comments by receiving alerts every time someone leaves a new post. Many big websites have used this service for years, and we love it as well. Why don’t you give it a try?

Hyvor forum

Alternatively, you can also use the popular and free Facebook Comments plugin, which you can turn on quickly for your blog posts. Or Hyvor, with budget-friendly premium plans.

How to add Disqus to your Webnode website

The first step is to sign up on Disqus.com and select your plan. Once you did all the settings, copy and place the obtained code to your Webnode project. For detailed instructions, see the How to add a forum to a website on Webnode tutorial.

Disqus forum

If you already use a live chat plugin or online forum widget on your website, be sure to control your web communication. You might experience many website visitors expecting a prompt response. All the mentioned services can help you improve customers’ support experience and let you provide 24/7 support. The rest is up to you.

Create your own website using the no code website builder and add a live chat plugin or online forum widget to better communicate with your customers.