[How to] Add a floating WhatsApp Widget

I haven’t found a guide to do this so we built our own 🙂

We made it pretty easy so you can have a cool floating whatsapp widget like this one in 3 steps

1. Add the following script (Make sure you select “Before Body End Tag” under Placement)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.5.0/css/font-awesome.min.css">

<script>

 document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) { 

   var phone = "your phone goes here (only numbers)"; //Add your phone here in international format. Omit any brackets, dashes, plus signs, and leading zeros when adding the phone   number in international format.

   var message = "your message goes here";

   var whatsappHref = "https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=" + phone + "&text=" + encodeURI(message);

   console.log(whatsappHref); // Just to check in the console the generated whatsapp link

   document.getElementById("whatsapp-widget").href=whatsappHref; // add the generated whatsapp link to the widget

});

</script> 

<a id="whatsapp-widget" href="" class="float" target="_blank">

<i class="fa fa-whatsapp my-float"></i>

</a>

It should look like this

You can customize your phone number and your message

2. Add this to your stylesheets

<style>

 .float{

 position:fixed;

 width:60px;

 height:60px;

 bottom:40px;

 right:40px;

 background-color:#25d366;

 color:#FFF;

 border-radius:50px;

 text-align:center;

 font-size:30px;

 box-shadow: 2px 2px 3px #999;

 z-index:100;

}

.my-float{

 margin-top:16px;

}

</style>

It will look like this

Enjoy!