What you are seeing above is a link that allows you to initiate a chat that directly connects to my Instant Messaging client. A lot of Users on the WordPress.com support forums wished to be able to do this. Staying in contact with your readers is crucial for any blogger.
But this used to be next to impossible to implement for WordPress.com users because it could only be done via iframes. iFrames are disabled by the WordPress.com team due to security considerations. Worry no longer. Google added some options to the badge creator that don’t require iframes and announced them recently in a post on the Talkabout blog.
The Badge Creator can be found here. When you go there you will see a page like this.
Make sure that you click “Edit” (marked red in the screenshot) to access the options that work with WordPress.com in the dropdown menu. The options with the text (no frame) will work with WordPress.com.
As long as you stick to one of the three last options you will be able to create a Google Talk chat badge for your WordPress.com Blog by following the instructions on that page.
Now you can drop the HTML code into a sidebar widget, into your contact page or a post (if appropriate).
Enjoy!
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Thanks so much for this post! What a scoop! :D
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