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Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

obscurelyfamous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:11:51 -0000

You don't say?

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

obscurelyfamous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:25:36 -0000

I am so sorry to hear that.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Guest — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:21:26 -0000

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Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

obscurelyfamous — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:17:38 -0000

Hey Jake, this works. Email me at daniel@disqus.com for personal help. We're phasing out these forums because they don't suit our support process well.

Thanks for being patient.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

JFord — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:54:07 -0000

Hack it like Shiner suggests and it works like a dream.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Jake — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:02:08 -0000

I'm STILL looking for this .... is it REALLY not fixed yet? This is getting to be silly, guy.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

John Dugan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:17:47 -0000

Shinerweb,

You are an American hero.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Virtualpro — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:48:27 -0000

Shinerweb, thanks for the hack this worked perfectly for a new contact me page

Funny thing is that old pages that had comments disabled before Disqus was installed had no issues and were not displaying the disqus comment box.!!?!?! Bizzare

Seems a fairly funadamental thing for the disqus plug-in, you've even given them the line they need to add in, can't be that difficult really.

Thanks again

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Bob Torres — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:49:06 -0000

Your hack. :) Sorry for the confusion.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Chris Wright — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:59:00 -0000

Bob...

Do you mean 'my hack' or their latest release.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Bob Torres — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:15:39 -0000

Thank you for this. It works perfectly.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Chris Wright — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:52:22 -0000

Just installed the latest WP Plugin module and it still doesn't obey is_single and is_page.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Jason — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:56:17 -0000

It seems like it should work to check for the WordPress post's comment status if you don't mind it not displaying existing Disqus comments that may have been left.

is_single and is_page are descripted here: http://codex.wordpress.org/...

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Chris Wright — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:10:18 -0000

Is that link correct above? That takes me to a list of my own comments...

EDIT: Ah, now I see what you were suggesting... Ouch. Not a very clean way of doing it...

And did you see my 'fix' below...
Works for me..

Chris

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Jake — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:38:14 -0000

Yikes.

That's a bit surprising... as it seems like that's an extremely core part of comments.

Any idea what the ETA looks like? i.e. how big of a deal have you guys assessed this to be, thus what priority are you giving it?

Thanks,
Jake

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Chris Wright — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:20:29 -0000

Ok, I've got it to obey the 'no comment' and 'page' by adding a new line.

Edit the Disqus code, and locate

if ( ! (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) ) {
return;
}

Above the "if ( ! (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) ) {", add the following:

if ( ('closed' == $post->comment_status) || ('page' == $post->post_type)){
return;
}

Save the plugin and it should work.
Don't forget to clear any cached pages if you have a cache plugin.

I've not tested this fully yet, but it appears to work.
I have a sneaky feeling the code

if ( ! (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) ) {
return;
}

is incorrect, (or cut and paste from a different plugin) as I can't see how it would work.
I can't find reference to is_single() and is_page(). It sort of rings a MoveableType bell in my head, but I'm not certain on that.

Try it and see if it works for you. I will ping Giannii and see what he says.

Re: Turning off commenting on a single blog entry?

Chris Wright — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:30:09 -0000

I think it 'should do' but there is a bug in the code.
I just posted a similar thread in another group, but got the wrong code block in that group.

Within the WordPress plugin code there is a function called dsq_comments_template

I think the following line should be responsible for preventing the Disqus module from displaying on various pages:

if ( ! (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) ) {
return;
}

To me, that looks like it shouldn't print out Disqus, if it's a single page or has comments disabled.
That's the line I believe to be broke, but I haven't had to time to dig deeper to find out exactly why.
(I need more coffee if I have to go put my 'logic' head on).

I'll dig deeper, but I think it's a bug 'somewhere' (in Disqus plugin or WP 2.7.1) rather than missing functionality.

Regards

Chris