---
title: "How To Embed a Chatroom with Kiwi IRC"
description: "There are multiple ways to interact with viewers within your website - forums, contact forms, and various forms of live chat. In this article we'll cover embedding an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) room..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/website-design/embed-a-chatroom-with-kiwi-irc/
date: 2018-09-04
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Website Design"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How To Embed a Chatroom with Kiwi IRC

There are multiple ways to interact with viewers within your website – [forums](/support/edu/wordpress/recommended-wordpress-plugins/install-bbpress), [contact forms](/support/edu/wordpress/318-adding-a-form-using-contact-form-a-in-wordpress), and various forms of live chat. In this article we’ll cover embedding an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) room into your website using the **Kiwi IRC widget generator**.

## Embed an IRC Widget

1. Visit [KiwiIRC.com](https://kiwiirc.com/) and select **Your account** and **Embed a widget**. Alternatively, you can use the [widget generator](https://kiwiirc.com/embedding) link.
2. Specify the **IRC network address**, **Default channel**, default **Nickname**, and **Theme**. For most cases, specifying only the channel will suffice. [![Screenshot of creating IRC widget with #ChannelName channel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/irc/irc-kiwiirc-2-create.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/irc/irc-kiwiirc-2-create.png)
3. Press **Generate my code!** to generate the HTML code. **Note**: You can share the included URL to open the IRC room in a separate window, e.g *https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.kiwiirc.com/#ChannelName*.
4. [Create or edit a page or post](/support/edu/wordpress/create-edit-pages-posts-wordpress/) to embed the widget.
5. Paste the HTML code into the **Text editor** and press **Publish**.
6. View the page to see this login window before connecting to the IRC room. [![Screenshot showing nickname User, channel #ChannelName, server irc.kiwiirc.com, and port 6667](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/irc/irc-kiwiirc-1-login.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/irc/irc-kiwiirc-1-login.png) Note: Anyone can change these settings. Users will need to choose an unique nickname.

Creating a IRC room for a channel name doesn’t grant administrator privelidges or prevent others from joining the channel from another location. You’d need to [register a channel with a network such as Freenode](https://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-Your-Own-IRC-Channel-on-Freenode.Net) to achieve this. You can learn about editing the appearance of your chatroom and more from [Kiwi IRC documentation](https://kiwiirc.com/docs/theming) and our guide for [adding HTML in WordPress posts](/support/website/adding-html-wordpress/).