Update: Disqus for WordPress 2.01 released

To get the new plugin, just go to your website’s integration page and select WordPress (or download the zip directly here. If you already have 2.0 installed, you should be prompted to update when you visit your WordPress admin panel.

Not a Disqus member yet? No time like the present — come check it out.

The 2.01 update addresses a number of issues that some people were experiencing after installing the 2.0 release. It also adds back in a number of features that were missing from the previous release, so we highly recommend that everyone update.

We are constantly adding to our WordPress documentation for details and support.

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Daniel on August 15th 2008 in disqus

  • Looks like Wordpress are getting lots of updates from Disqus. Other blogger platforms like bloggers are not as popular for the Disqus commenting system?I am more into blogger but seeing WP having more other benefits,i guess i should give WP some serious considerations.
  • ryanlow
    I have used Wordpress for quite sometime and didn't know that we could have so many added interface to make it looks stylish and user-friendly. A comment interface is important to a blogger. Disqus has made it easy for beginners like me to install such implementations.
  • jonaw
    May I know what are the added features that 2.01 release address?I have tried to search news about the update but the results doesn't display what I wanted to know. I have not been using Wordpress for quite sometime and would like to utilize it again.

    Are we suppose to add the new updates manually?
  • aprilwoods
    I guess I have to change the platform i'm using!WP seems to be widely used.
  • Janliao
    Are there any new release for blogger platform?
  • Probably a FAQ site should be set up so that people who faced common problems could find the answers there.
  • any plans about translating to European languages ?
  • We do support several =) Here is a list of the current languages we
    support.

    http://wiki.disqus.net/FAQ#WhatlanguagesdoesDis...

    Giannii
    DISQUS
    Community Manager
    help@disqus.com
  • It has been relatively easy to install disqus on wordpress, however i seem to lose some existing comments after importing.
  • The new plugin seems great ! Thanks for the useful information and link.
  • After I performed the Version: 2.02-2869 update,i cannot see my blog comments anymore. How do I diagnose this problem?
  • It looks like this plugin is generating links to comments by appending "#comment-$comment->comment_ID" to the post link where $comment is a value from "$wpdb->comments" - Is there a new method for determining the comment anchor?
  • Hi guys
    Is there any possibility to customized wordPress blog after install?
    Thanks
  • Hi, Daniel,
    I did it all from my Lunarpages web hosting cpanel.
    I went to public html folder
    I clicked on my sub-domain site
    I clicked on plugins
    I clicked on browse desktop
    I clicked on install disqus zip file
    extracted.
    Went to WP admin, added new website ID for Disqus
    then activated Disqus Plugin.
    If you don't believe me, click here___lol

    http://chart.zstock7.com/?p=1#comment-2509885
  • Whats up with the Disquss plugin that is up at wordpress.org at the moment? It works fine, but it never seems to think that it has been updated in the plugins page.
  • Does it always prompt you for an update? Did you try updating it when
    it asks?
  • Now I see two different Disqus plugins in my plugin page, one activated and one not. I just enabled the newer plugin which seems to work fine. This might be because I just overwrote the directory.
  • After I performed the Version: 2.02-2869 update, my blog comments don't show up anymore. How do I diagnose this problem?

    I also went to the configuration in my WordPress admin, but still no comments.

    When I go to the dusqus admin, I found I have three websites, all with the same name. One has my 600 plus comments, the other two do not. Could there be some confusion here? It won't let me delete the unused comment sites.

    My site is www.zacharybass.com

    I use WordPress version 2.5.1
  • I added more info to this thread, about installing disqus WP for dummies:::
    http://blog.disqus.net/2008/08/15/update-disqus...
    I still have to learn how to backup WP2.6, but that's an entirely, another discussion.
  • frederick
  • daniel, can you go to wordpress documentaion, and add a link, wordpress install for dummies.
    I load disqus zip into FTP, ( firezilla)
    send file to my web hosting site
    then what?

    See what I mean by install for dummies link?
    Thanks
  • Could you elaborate on what's confusing about the process?

    It's on the integrate page: http://disqus.com/integrate
  • I went to the intergrate site and the first instruction is
    "Place the contents of the archive in your WordPress plugins directory."

    What contents are you talking about? (Is it the Disqus plugin that I uploaded to my server using FTP)
    What's archive? ( is that the Disqus plugin that I uploaded to my server?)
    I'll just start at this first line of instruction.

    wouldn't instruction one for beginner's be:::
    1. download disqus plugin. 2.It will be on your desktop, Unzip it. 3.Open up FTP host , insert Disqus Zip file ( the one that's unzipped) into FTP. 4.connect to web host server. 5. upload zip to your server..
    All of these 5 steps, I took 4 nights to learn this. Right now I'm on night 5.
    I guess you forgot, that some of us are coming from Blogger to WP. ORG = huge step up.
    Oh and I tried Hostmysite.com as my first web host and their WP.org doesn't work.
    So now I'm going to try Lunarpages, web host site.
    well anyway, I hope this gives you an Idea of how difficult it is to jump from Blogger to WP.org.
    I have some spare time, so I don't mind trying to learn how.
  • Hi zstock,

    Are you still having issues with this? I'm sorry about the late reply.
    Email me directly if you need help: daniel@disqus.com
  • NP, I'm still trying to install WP2.61 to my .com_-cpanel is brand new to me, so I'll be working at the basics for awhile.
  • Be darned if I can figure out how to get an image on my wordpress blog. It must just be a plug-in..?
  • Anyone can help on this? I have the same question like her.
    Thanks!
  • onkelandy
    I wonder if anyone else has a problem with the pagination feature. It doesn't seem to work. If you take a look at the post in my Blog.

    There are 31 comments that get shown without pagination activated. Now there are only 10 comments shown, what is fine, but I'm missing a button to go to the next comment-page.
  • As far as I can tell Wordpress.com ( just regular sign up) doesn't have a plugins directory.
    So, let me know when Disqus will work with just regular wordpress blogs.
    zstock.wordpress.com

    Place the contents of the archive in your WordPress plugins directory.

    * By default, the plugins directory is /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/
    * You should have a new directory /path/to/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/disqus/
    * The new directory must be named disqus.

    I can't read all of these small letters, can you at least up the font size to 10 ( +make 10 default, globally)
  • Ah, I see what you're saying. Unfortunately Wordpress.com won't
    support plugins like Disqus at the moment. We'd like to change this
    soon.
  • onkelandy
    But can't you put it in the archive on wordpress.org??
  • ozh
    The way of adding the top level menu is terrible. I have a far better & cleaner suggestion

    add_action('load-edit-comments.php', 'ozh_disqus_fix_takeover');
    function ozh_disqus_fix_takeover() {
    dsq_manage();
    include('admin-footer.php');
    die();
    }

    No dirty messing with the global $menu.
  • onkelandy
    I second this! Esp. when you are using different menu-plugins (dropdown, etc.) the mainmenu stuff sucks. Hope you can fix this soon.
  • Still not XHTML 1.1 compliant when served as mime-type XHTML instead of "tag soup" HTML. Get script errors. Need to isolate your Javascript away from presentation better maybe?
  • The markup isn't XHTML compliant. However the JavaScript is isolated
    in the best way it can be for type of implementation. I've begun
    working on making this XHTML compliant.
  • Actually, I updated the code slightly to have /* <![CDATA[ */ and /* ]]> */ to the bottom of the disqus.php that has Javascript embedded, that fixed the Javascript errors when the include loads. I also fixed some XHTML as well - They were pretty simple things to fix:

    Make sure all areas have alt="" tags for images
    Make sure you use class="" for CSS on the divs instead of using id="" and duplicated div ids.
    Make sure you have the <ul><li> structure correct for dynamically generated XHTML. There was some mismatches.

    That pretty much fixed it for me. It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought :-)
  • Thanks Brandon.
  • onkelandy
    Would be brilliant to see a compliant version soon ;)
  • Ryo
    I have a weird problem. When new comments are written, they don't appear at my posting. The nzmber is showing correctly. But when i click on it, no comments appearing. The comments are there, i can see it at disqus and they are approved.
    This happend after installing 2.0/2.01

    They appeared now. I hope it will not take so long on every comment. They must appear instantly.
  • Do you have any caching plugins?
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