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Re: ExpressionEngine?

Andru Edwards — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:08:26 -0000

Is there anything more on ExpressionEngine and Disqus? This thread is over a year old and I haven't found anything else out there...

Re: ExpressionEngine?

vorari — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:27:20 -0000

Yep. Using it now. EE is used on quite a few sites, several large ones in particular. On our site it works really well but I'm annoyed that I can easily own the comments.

On EE - I disabled local comments and went straight to Disqus. I love the Disqus format, but once a customer comments - I loose all SEO rights.

The Disqus approach here is to use a community page: Ours is vorari.disqus.com

I'm not seeing that work very well.

So my options are now this:

1) Post the comments manually on our site
2) Sync the comments somehow using the disqus API

The big problem here that I can't find an easy answer to is that SEO aspect:

Do I have the comments showing up on our site in a hidden <div> where Disqus is the visible portion? (Meets SEO requirements). But does google penalise for having duplicate content?

Eg: Manually / Automatically synced comments to page but hidden using a DIV. Search engines find it, but when you visit the site you have the Disqus interface all the way.

I know this automatic sync feature works for WordPress & Blogger - but I still can see where the synced comments are... on the same page? hidden in a <div>? Not on the page at all but indexed by crawlers at another location?

The other thing I thought about was manually submitting the comments.rss feed from the disqus community site as a sitemap.

Has anyone referenced their disqus site as a CNAME?

(I've been looking JS-Kit which seems to fix a lot of things, but I really like Disqus)

Re: ExpressionEngine?

Kevin — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:26:10 -0000

I would also be very interested in an EE implementation with PHP.

Re: ExpressionEngine?

Otus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:43:20 -0000

Daniel, thanks for the quick answer :). I've also posted in the ExpressionEngine forum to see if any folks over there have begun tinkering with Disqus.

Re: ExpressionEngine?

obscurelyfamous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:38:25 -0000

Hi Adam,

We don't have an ExpressionEngine implementation just yet. Someone could get one going with the general Javascript solution or use our API to address your second point.