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Notes about the new plugin

We’ve had a lot of great interest in the Disqus for WordPress plugin 2.0, with many websites syncing their old comments up with Disqus. While the large majority went through the import process successfully, there was a significant number of people who were experiencing issues. These issues were:

Not being able to leave legacy mode
Importing only some of the comments
Issues with the RSS feed (FeedBurner)
Complete importing/exporting failure

Most of these issues are now fixed. You can get the latest repackage of the 2.0 release on the integration page.

If you’ve received an error during the process, we know about it. You will personally receive an email from Disqus when these issues are resolved for your website.

Finally, we will be releasing a 2.01 release of the plugin which everyone should update to. I apologize for the troubles and thank you for the great patience and feedback.

Daniel on August 13th 2008 in disqus

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Bob Caswell 3 months ago 2 points
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Any chance you could set it up such that WordPress alerts us when new versions of the disqus plugin are available? I really like that feature and haven't seen it taken advantage of by disqus (yet).

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Daniel Ha 3 months ago 2 points
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The incremental fixes to Disqus are still labeled as 2.0 and will always be available on that page. It's meant for people who absolutely need to have the latest fixes.

Once we have everything is together, we'll release a 2.01.

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mollyfud 3 months ago 1 point
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I think Bob is meaning is there a chance you could add the plugin to the wordpress plugin site so that when you release any future upgrades it is available in the plugin section as a one click upgrade. I don't think I have explained it very well but if you check it out, I am sure you will see what bob means. It would be great to have one click upgrading.

Great product by the way!

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sushubh 3 months ago 2 points
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i had like that ability too. i hate plugins which are still hosted on third party sites.

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Jake McKee 3 months ago 1 point
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Bingo - that makes it easy (and instant) to actually upgrade without FTP and file download.

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ortsed 3 months ago 2 points
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This sounds neat. How does it hold up against spam?

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Andrew Badr 3 months ago 1 point
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It uses the same 3rd-party spam filtering as the first version. Most users are very happy with the level of spam protection.

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Jason 3 months ago 1 point
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There was also an issue with duplicate comments being synced back to WordPress. This has been fixed in the latest 2.0 package, but we will provide instructions on removing these duplicate comments with the release of 2.01.

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onkelandy 3 months ago 1 point
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Very cool. Thanks for the quick fixes. Maybe you could also release a XTHML VALID version very soon? It's mostly about missing alt-declarations in img-tags as well as ending img tags with /> Also the & in the avatar_url have to be str_replace('&','&',blabla and the <link CSS>-tag has to be included in an add_action('wp_header',functionwiththelinkdeclaration');

Thanks alot for fixing this!

P.S.: Any chance to include some simple sanitize-rule in the comments..? i.e.
becomes
and so on.

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Shii 3 months ago 1 point
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Hey guys, I think your upgrade did this, my comments page is all ugly now.

http://angrysummerquietfall.blogspot.com/2008/0...

It used to be white on black and now it's black on white. I don't know how to change this?

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rihanna 1 week ago 1 point
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It looks fine to me

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miketempleton 3 months ago 1 point
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I cant' get the [speech bubble + 7 Comments] link to work properly now. I upgraded the plugin and it won't display the number at all. What code is being used to call up those numbers?

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Daniel Ha 3 months ago 1 point
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Are you referring to http://microblink.com?

I see the comment count show up fine.

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miketempleton 3 months ago 1 point
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I changed it back to the previous version of Disqus because it
wouldn't show on Disqus 2.0

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Daniel W. 3 months ago 1 point
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So do I export my comments again using the latest version? Won't that create duplicates for the 80-odd that have already been exported?

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Daniel W. 3 months ago 1 point
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OK, I didn't do anything, and my comments in Disqus are now at 407. But they're doubled up in the Wordpress admin console...

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svartling 3 months ago 1 point
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Where is the Blogger version? :)

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Daniel Ha 3 months ago 1 point
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Blogger is still supported, as always.

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svartling 3 months ago 1 point
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Yes but when will it be upgraded to this new version?

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klagreca 3 months ago 1 point
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Will the 2.01 release and all future releases be available as an update through the Wordpress plugin notification function?

The new plugin works great and I have found Disqus to the best commenting system available for Wordpress. Best wishes!

Kris

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Daniel Ha 3 months ago 2 points
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It will be, absolutely.

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Richard Bennett 3 months ago 1 point
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OK, I've installed DISQUS into my WordPres 2.6 blog, set all the settings, and told it to use DISQUS on all current and future blog posts. All my posts say they have no comments.

Presumably, there is something I have to do to make it import my existing 7,000 comments, but I don't see any instructions. There's an Export comments to DISQUS on the Advanced Options, but when I click it I'm taken to a wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=disqus page that's blank and nothing changes. Still no comments on the blog.

Is this supposed to work?

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alexhiggins732 3 months ago 1 point
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Apparently the copy at the top of this page is there just to make us think there is an import feature. From other posts I have read, there is NO WAY TO IMPORT COMMENTS INTO DISGUS.

Plus on the SEO end, yes it great to be able to sync your comments to third party sites, but your going to run into duplicate Content Issues. When google decided who to award the search result to it is going to be the site with the highest PR. More than likely that's not going to be your blog and that means your blog just disappears from the search engine :(

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