Disqus Day

August 16, 2008 in Andux | Comments

Disqus is a web comment system that can be incorporated into WordPress blogs using a plugin. The recent major update convinced me that it was time to try Disqus at this blog.

There are a few small, early bumps in the road toward using the plugin (V2.01 by the way). Activating it involved signing on to my Disqus account (fair enough) and at one point seemed as though it would require editing theme files (not so fair enough). But then I decided, apparently correctly, that I don’t need the code snippets it showed me.

Then I looked at the blog. It seemed that the existing comments had disappeared. It turned out that they hadn’t, but that it was an “Advanced Option” in plugin setup to import them into Disqus. The import seemed to work for comments. I believe that trackback import is in the works.

Then I looked at a post page. The Disqus stuff starts displaying in the sidebar, rather than right below the post. I suspect that this is theme-specific, and that it won’t go away when I move up to the new version of Tarski (2.3).

Finally, I left a comment. I commented on the previous post, indicating that I’ve disabled my spam cop plugin, since Disqus brings its own spam cop.

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