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.

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.

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?

I guess I have to change the platform i'm using!WP seems to be widely used.

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#WhatlanguagesdoesDisqussupport.3F

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-for-wordpress-201-released/#comment-2180065
I still have to learn how to backup WP2.6, but that's an entirely, another discussion.

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!

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.

But can't you put it in the archive on wordpress.org??

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.

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 /* */ 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 :-)</li></ul>

Thanks Brandon.

Would be brilliant to see a compliant version soon ;)

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?

Of course. WP Supercache is a must-have. But I never had problems before 2.0.

I don't see the issue right now but I'll keep an eye out.

This plugin causes my site to throw "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet Site" errors in IE7 or IE rendering engine in Firefox. No problems with Safari or Firefox.

http://www.fastandloud.com

Any ideas?
fff

If you disable mootools.js, does this resolve your issues?

Can you guys run the code through an XHTML Validator? It throws tons of error even on your own blog.

Sorry if that sounds snooty. Just trying to clean up my code.

This thread might be better off as a standalone thread on our forum. Or email us directly: help@disqus.com

loaded new mootool.js, removed some naughty code in my theme and now everything is happy happy.

Goo to hear. :)

Same issue after disabling mootool.js. - anything like THIS going on in the code?

And for the record I don't have any sitemeter code any where - I know that was an issue a few weeks ago.

Kewl update, but there are still some validation problems. First of all there seem to be double tags.. And as stated in a comment before, the '<'+ '/script>' stuff doesn't work, it has to be changed into '<\/script>'.

Thanks alot!

Thank you so very much for another great application. I will be trying to install over the weekend and will let everyone know how it goes.

Ugh. I upgraded and tried the import again, and not only did it still not get all of my comments (missing about 200), it spewed duplicates of all the ones it did get all into my site's comments table! I had to manually go through 30 pages of comments and delete the duplicates.

Forget this BS. How do I delete all my comments and configuration off the system? I don't see anywhere to "delete website from Disqus" because I am done with this crap.

Are you using the latest plugin, 2.0.1? It sounds like you are using
an older release.

I tried 2.0 and it only imported half my comments, then I tried importing with 2.0.1 and that's when it created all the dupes.

Please email help@disqus.com so we can diagnose your problem.

No thanks. After this horrible experience with this plugin, I have no confidence in this service and I will no longer consider entrusting my data to it.

I'd like to remove my site and my comments from Disqus entirely. Where is the "delete" link, exactly? I've already changed my site back to keeping my own comments, how can I now remove them from Disqus as well?

I can't find the file. I'm directed from my wordpress.org site to this blog posting. No way to upgrade automatically. What do I need to do to get the new version?

The link is in the first sentence of the blog post. We will be making upgrading easier this week.

Got it installed, works fine

I just reinstalled disqus again, and everything seems to be working ok, except that the number of comments for each post don't show on main page. If i run the mouse over the 'comments' link it shows as '/postname/#disqus_thread' and that takes me to the comments. but the link doesn't show number of comments. Before installing disqus it showed the comments for each post from wordpress. Is there any script that i have to add manually for it to show.

Hi onlypencil,

There is some information about this on the WordPress doc page: http://disqus.com/docs/wordpress/#comment-count

Thanks for all the direct interaction, Daniel - appreciate it!

Is it possible to edit *my own* comments on my own site? Either I'm not seeing it or it doesn't exist. Also, is there a way through options or CSS/HTML to highlight the blog author(s)?

One more thing... Disqus imported/synced over 10k comments, but WordPress indicates I have over 15k. Where's the disconnect? Hmmm.

Got it installed - it took 1hr 19min to import over 10,400+ comments.

Seeing a bit of weirdness. A few dates on imported comments appear off, though I haven't verified and it's not a big deal either way.

What is strange is that the options pages applies changes such as comment style/width, but it won't change the options button to a link and it won't move the comment box below the comments.

These bits are in the plugin markup itself so you are able to edit the HTML yourself to anything you'd like.

Just (carefully) edit comments.php in your plugin directory. Happy to help further.

Thanks for the offer, but wish it would just move the box for me. ;) I'll poke around in the code later. Though any changes I make could be lost with the next plugin update - yes?

This has been fixed. Try now. :)

Hi Dave,

Yes, if you modify the actual PHP it will change with an update. I am
happy to assist you personally with customization.

Thanks for the offer. How can I reach you? :)

daniel@disqus.com

It would also be good if each blog we own could display a different commenting profile with distinct name and image. Taking this further it would be nice of our comments could be separated into professional comments (shared with everyone) and personal comments (rants etc.!) that are just shared with our friends.

It would be great if you could add a star rating system to be optionally added next to comments on certain posts. This could then be used to either have readers rate the content of a post or alternatively rate the product, band, actor, actresss, movie etc. beining talked about.

Hey, this is great! but comment counts aren't working, and links to comments (generated by a recent comments plugin) are no longer right. any fixes?

Hi Jeff, details about the comment count are here: http://disqus.com/docs/wordpress/#comment-count

Awesome! that fixed my comment count issue, however links to comments generated by the "Get Recent Comments" plugin still point to an apparently non-existent anchor. 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?

Had some issues with 2.0, and 2.0.1 just fixed a major issue with a small white space in the code throwing feedburner for a loopty. Great work on that.

Also, just imported all previous comments before Disqus and worked well. Just had to claim them, but it was very easy.

I noticed someone had asked about trackbacks - I had been asking around on that issue, so it is great to see that in the pipeline for development.

Overall, I've been very impressed. The new comment field on blogs is easier to login in to, and the overall feel is very strong. Great work, great support, and I look forward to greater things to come. You've got my vote.

Any chance you guys can add this plugin to WordPress' plugins section so we can automatically upgrade from within WordPress?

It'll be added soon. :)

Also, please do not put a banner on all my Admin pages when you have an upgrade. If every plugin did that, I'd be blogging below the fold.

Everything went smooth on 2.01. All my old WP comments were imported. Good work, guys.

Question: Will I be able to import my trackbacks, too? Doesn't look like they were imported along with my old WP comments.