Title: Display the discussions
Last modified: July 31, 2026

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# Display the discussions

 *  Resolved [kicker1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kicker1212/)
 * (@kicker1212)
 * [2 weeks, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-the-discussions/)
 * Hello,
   How I can setup to display all the discussions now and before to let the
   users see ?Thank you very much !

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 *  Plugin Support [Andrij Tkachenko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrijtkachenko/)
 * (@andrijtkachenko)
 * [2 weeks, 2 days ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-the-discussions/#post-18980759)
 * Hi,
 * Private conversations in Better Messages are visible only to their participants—
   there is no setting that publishes them to everyone, that is by design.
 * If you want a discussion that all your users can read, including everything posted
   before they arrived, create a chat room:
    1. WP Admin → Better Messages → Chat Rooms → Create New Chat Room
    2. In the Role Based Access panel tick “Can Join” and “Can Reply” for the roles
       that should take part. Turn on “Allow guests” if unregistered visitors should
       read or write too
    3. In Chat Room Settings leave “Only joined can read messages” OFF — this is what
       lets anyone opening the page read the whole history
    4. Turn ON “Auto join users” — every user who opens the page with the room is added
       to it right away, without clicking Join. Note that users cannot leave a room
       with auto join enabled. If you want this only for some roles, leave the option
       off and pick those roles in “Auto Add” in the Role Based Access panel instead
    5. Turn OFF “Hide chat from user inbox” if you also want the room to appear in 
       the users’ conversations list, not only on the page where you place it. Email
       and push notifications for the room work only when it is not hidden from the
       inbox
    6. Copy the shortcode shown at the top of the room editor and paste it into any
       page or post:
 * [better_messages_chat_room id=”123″]
 * Everyone who opens that page sees the room from its very first message — history
   is never trimmed to the moment a user joined.
 * To let users browse every room you created, enable the Chat Rooms tab of the 
   mini widget in Better Messages → Settings → Mini Widgets → Chat Rooms and set
   Display Mode to “Show all accessible rooms”. New rooms are then added to the 
   list automatically, and users can join them from any page of the site.
 * [https://www.better-messages.com/docs/features/chat-rooms/](https://www.better-messages.com/docs/features/chat-rooms/)
   
   [https://www.better-messages.com/docs/features/mini-widgets/](https://www.better-messages.com/docs/features/mini-widgets/)
 * If you meant something different by “discussions” — for example a public archive
   of private conversations, or a specific page you already built — tell me a bit
   more about what your users should see and I will point you to the right setting.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [kicker1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kicker1212/)
 * (@kicker1212)
 * [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-the-discussions/#post-18981153)
 * Thank you very much !

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 * Last reply from: [kicker1212](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kicker1212/)
 * Last activity: [2 weeks, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-the-discussions/#post-18981153)
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