Introducing the New DISQUS


With this latest update, we are making Disqus easier, faster, and more portable. Simple enough, right? Let’s begin.
DISQUS
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Portable

WordPress Plugin 2.0

We’ve been working on improving integration with platforms. Available now, the new WordPress-Disqus plugin 2.0 features the following:

  • Comments are indexable by search engines (SEO-friendly)
  • Export and import of comments
  • Automatic synchronization between Disqus.com and your WordPress comments
  • Uses the new Disqus API
  • Moderate/administer your blog right from the WordPress admin

This update makes it easier than ever to try Disqus out.

Note about import: Comments imported into Disqus will be initially unclaimed. People can merge these comments with their Disqus profiles simply by claiming the comments.

The WordPress plugin is just one of the first uses of our new, revamped APIs, which we built to open Disqus up to developers. There are currently some developers using our API for custom integrations or connecting web applications with the Disqus network. We are still polishing up our public documentation, but they will be available soon.

Faster

Disqus now has a new look. The look itself isn’t faster — it’s accessing your stuff that is now speedier. The entire interface was retooled to improve how you use Disqus. Not only is using Disqus faster, we’ve worked on making the entire service quicker. We know many people trust our service to be fast and reliable so we spent some time making sure we’re delivering on this.

The New Homepage for Commenters

The new Disqus homepage is completely focused on you, the commenter. From the homepage, you are able to view your and friends’ comments, track replies, and manage everything from a single interface.

Adding and Following Friends

Following people’s comments has been improved. On someone’s profile, click “Follow”. You can view view all of your friends’ comments by toggling the button on the homepage.

Easier

New Admin Interface for Bloggers

Publishers, bloggers, or website owners have a hard job. The new Admin interface makes it much easier to moderate commenters and administer settings. We feel that the new Disqus.com is much more useful; we hope you take a look around and will agree with us.

Comment Blogs

Disqus also has new profiles for commenters. While familiar, the new profiles have one big difference: we’re treating them as comment-blogs. Many people don’t have a blog, but comment regularly all over the place. A comment blog is their place to collect and show off their thoughts. We have big plans for this, including customization.

Welcome

With 30,000 websites signed up, this network of connected, cross-platform discussions has been growing faster than ever. We intend for Disqus to grow alongside the great communities it’s helping bring together.

So, welcome to the new DISQUS.

Jobs

Disqus is hiring. We’re looking for smart developers to help take Disqus and online discussion to the next steps. If you’d like to join a fun, small and growing startup in San Francisco, send us your resume or portfolio to jobs@disqus.com.

Daniel on August 12th 2008 in disqus

  • The export function can't work in recent wordpress installation. After looking at the code, the way you try to get categories in the export function is invalid for recent Wordpress (i guess 2.5+ at least) because categories doesn't use anymore the wp_categories table but instead are managed with the same tables than the ones used for tags.

    Exemple of request error shown in php logs when trying to export from a Wordpress 2.6 blog:
    WordPress database error Table 'veilleperso.wp_categories' doesn't exist for query SELECT cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename, category_description, category_parent, posts_private, links_private FROM wp_categories LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (category_id = cat_id) LEFT JOIN wp_posts ON (post_id <=> id) GROUP BY cat_id made by dsq_export_wp


    And indeed, wp_categories and wp_post2cat are not used anymore. The categories system now use the tables: wp_term_taxonomy, wp_term_relationships and wp_terms

    Are you going to fix this soon?
    Thanks
  • Any hope for blogspot (blogger) synchronization of comments like this new Wordpress plugin does?
  • mio
  • SEO
    I am a proud new member of Disqus. Adding the plugin to our corporate blog. Hopefully management of comment spammers will be much easier from now.
    Rif Chia
  • Hey Rif, I got it installed on my blog too. Working quite nicely till date. Show you when back in office.
  • Great stuff. I really like the new plugin. It is working on two of my blogs fine except for one where the comment import to Disqus keeps reporting an error. Do you know what the problem could be?
  • I'm having some trouble exporting comments too (trying to move them into Disqus from WP). I click the export button, there seems to be a delay, then I just get a blank frame. All my legacy comments are missing and none of the old ones seem to be brought into Disqus yet. Ideas?
  • So what about trackbacks? Is that covered by the SEO-friendly indexing?
  • wdwd
    nicec
  • I'm excited about Disqus syncing with WP. Thank you for making my day. I can finally use Disqus. Woot!
  • Now, what if you gave commenters the option to simultaneously post their comment to their own blog as a blog post. Whoa... that would blow my mind.
  • I'm sure this option will spring out of your API not directly from Disqus, as you guys have your hands full.
  • I want to make sure the installation goes smoothly on my WP Blogs, is there a place with instructions on how to update the WP Plugin?
  • Also looking for some "upgrade to 2.0" instructions. Should add that to the Readme file or in the Tools section... or both. Thanks, I can not wait.
  • We'll update the plugin to clarify the upgrade process. Updating should just require replacing the old plugin with the new one. It will then run in legacy mode, which means your comments will be served up through JavaScript until you complete the configuration of the plugin.
  • Just did the update for my 3 sites and went very smoothly. Thanks.
  • Carl
    That would be great.
  • If only you could do something about those iframes....

    A local script that spoke to disqus behind-the-scenes would go a long way to win over the remaining blog-base!
  • Just upgraded to 2.0 and than quickly downgraded. That was scary. Kept getting "Legacy mode" warning and nothing else. Will try again later.
  • I'm also listed as being in Legacy Mode and the URL that explains it is empty. :/ Guess I'll stick with builtin WordPress comments until 2.0.1.
  • Legacy mode just means that you had the old plugin installed and you haven't fully configured the new plugin. To do so, go to the plugin options page for Disqus and go through the installation steps.
  • Yeah, that aint working :)
  • Great work guys. I'm upgrading our plugin now.
  • mio
    Where is API key? I've installed plugin, but he can't talk me where it was ;)
  • When you run through the installation steps, it will grab the API key for you.
  • mio
    Sorry, but I can't authorize @ Disqus throw my WP-admin panel ('incorrect password' it says). May be if authorized it will grab key for me, but...
  • I can't wait to try it out.
  • OK, I have a general Disqus question that I can't seem to find the answer to (and apparently I can't search the forum?). What prevents somebody from going out and claiming a bunch of blogs that they don't actually own? They obviously wouldn't be able to embed Disqus on that blog w/o admin access, but they could still claim it, right? How is that handled?
  • When you claim comments, Disqus sends a verification link to the email address claimed (i.e. the email address you used to post comments on the blog from which someone has imported comments). A verification URL is sent to that email address. I believe that the only way that someone else could claim your comments, would be if someone else used your email address to claim comments and then you open the email and click the verification link. If you do happen to get a comment claim verification you didn't ask for, someone else could indeed claim your comments if you click the verification link.
  • You need to be logged into an existing account in order for the
    verification link to work.

    Someone cannot create a different account and have you click on the
    link.
  • Ok good, I'm glad I was wrong. :-D That makes sense, thanks for clearing it up.
  • Congratulations!
  • Great stuff Daniel and crew ... Keep it comin'
  • Where are the docs for exporting comments?
  • Hi Dave, exporting is still done within the WordPress panel if it's for WP.

    Otherwise, you can find that here: http://disqus.com/admin/tools/

    The format is XML. RSS 2.0 is supported and will make its return shortly.
  • Daniel:
    I received a "Export Status: Error".
    Anything I can do? I have years and years of comments that need to be exported and imported for you so I'm wondering if there's a limit.

    I'd love to use disqus on every post, especially the older ones.
  • Sorry, that's:
    "Import status: Error
    Started: 2 minutes ago"
  • We're noting any errors we get and will contact you once it is resolved. Thanks
  • Awesome thanks.
  • Douchebag Hunter
    niceeeeeeeee~
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