# WordPress plugin

Add Texa Desk's live chat to a WordPress site with a plugin, with signed-in WordPress users chatting as themselves.


1. [Download the plugin](https://api.texadesk.com/docs/downloads/texa-desk-chat.zip) (`texa-desk-chat.zip`).
2. In WordPress, **Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin**, choose the file, then **Activate**.
3. Open **Settings → Texa Desk chat** and paste your **website token**: in Texa Desk, open the
   website inbox's **Configuration** tab; it's the value after `websiteToken:` in the code there.
   Save.
4. Optional: paste the inbox's **Secret key** too (Configuration → Identity validation). People
   signed in to your WordPress site then chat as themselves, with
   [identity validation](/desk/live-chat#identity-validation), and the chat forgets them when they
   sign out.

Open your site and the chat bubble appears. Send a test message: it arrives in Texa Desk in that
inbox.

## Without the plugin

Paste the inbox's code in your theme's footer with a snippet plugin such as **WPCode** (Code
snippets → Header & footer → Footer). See [live chat](/desk/live-chat) for the code and its settings.