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Update: Disqus for WordPress 2.01 released

Started by Daniel Ha · 10 months ago

To get the new plugin, just go to your website’s integration page and select WordPress. 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.% ... Continue reading »

89 comments

  • ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Italian Restaurant

    6 months ago

    The new plugin seems great ! Thanks for the useful information and link.
  • onkelandy

    10 months 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!
  • Dave Zatz

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Dave Zatz

    10 months ago

    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?
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    This has been fixed. Try now. :)
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Hi Dave,

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

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

  • Sid Savara

    10 months ago

    Wait, so why can't I just update DISQUS from the plugin page like I can with other plugins? I have to download it and FTP it myself? Is it because it's not hosted at Wordpress.org or something?
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    It's not hosted at WordPress.org because the plugin is very tightly tied in with your account here at Disqus.com.

    I agree that we can make distribution easier and we'll be working on that as well.
  • Sid Savara

    10 months ago

    Ok, cool!
  • ylluminate

    10 months ago

    Please do. I certainly don't like the hoop jumping w/ being used to streamlined updates from other folks... :) At least give us a link on the blog to which you direct us to the direct download.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    We'll have it on WordPress.org soon.
  • sushubh

    10 months ago

    thank you so very much. manual upgradation sucks!
  • pivic

    10 months ago

    Brilliant; manually having to update the plugin really sucks when people like I are used to one-click-upgrading.
  • Anthony Citrano

    10 months ago

    thanks - i'll give this one a shot. I did an "import" yesterday morning with the 2.0 (and had all the ugly issues you'll remember.) Do I need to re-do the import under 2.0.1 or will it auto-sync at some point?
  • Anthony Citrano

    10 months ago

    (note - things look basically OK under 2.0.1 at this point, but there are a few comments that were made in WP while it was uninstalled yesterday - will they show up in Disqus if I don't do another import?)
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    You should import again.
  • Andrew Meyer

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Andrew B.

    10 months ago

    We haven't implemented trackback importing yet, but several people have asked for it, so it's near the top of the list.
  • chartier

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    It'll be added soon. :)
  • Dave Zatz

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Jeff Gould

    10 months ago

    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?
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    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?
  • Olly S

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Olly S

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Dave Zatz

    10 months ago

    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)?
  • Dave Zatz

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Hi onlypencil,

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

    10 months ago

    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?
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    The link is in the first sentence of the blog post. We will be making upgrading easier this week.
  • Otto4242

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Are you using the latest plugin, 2.0.1? It sounds like you are using
    an older release.
  • Otto4242

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Please email help@disqus.com so we can diagnose your problem.
  • Otto4242

    10 months ago

    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?
  • fallingfromfaith

    10 months ago

    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
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    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.
  • fallingfromfaith

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    Goo to hear. :)
  • fallingfromfaith

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Do you have any caching plugins?
  • Ryo

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    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?
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Brandon Werner

    10 months ago

    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 :-)
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Thanks Brandon.
  • onkelandy

    10 months ago

    Would be brilliant to see a compliant version soon ;)
  • ozh

    10 months ago

    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

    10 months ago

    I second this! Esp. when you are using different menu-plugins (dropdown, etc.) the mainmenu stuff sucks. Hope you can fix this soon.
  • zstock

    10 months ago

    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)
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    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

    10 months ago

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

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Susan

    10 months ago

    Be darned if I can figure out how to get an image on my wordpress blog. It must just be a plug-in..?
  • pennybright

    9 months ago

    Anyone can help on this? I have the same question like her.
    Thanks!
  • zstock

    10 months ago

    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
  • Daniel Ha

    10 months ago

    Could you elaborate on what's confusing about the process?

    It's on the integrate page: http://disqus.com/integrate
  • zstock

    10 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    9 months ago

    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
  • zstock

    9 months ago

    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.
  • frederick6

    10 months ago

  • zstock

    9 months ago

    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.
  • Zach Bass

    9 months ago

    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
  • redeuxx

    9 months ago

    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.
  • Daniel Ha

    9 months ago

    Does it always prompt you for an update? Did you try updating it when
    it asks?
  • redeuxx

    9 months ago

    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.
  • zstock

    9 months ago

    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
  • webdco

    9 months ago

    Hi guys
    Is there any possibility to customized wordPress blog after install?
    Thanks
  • nails

    7 months ago

    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?
  • acrylic nails

    7 months ago

    After I performed the Version: 2.02-2869 update,i cannot see my blog comments anymore. How do I diagnose this problem?
  • Fashion Shop

    6 months ago

    It has been relatively easy to install disqus on wordpress, however i seem to lose some existing comments after importing.
  • Hunderacer

    4 months ago

    any plans about translating to European languages ?
  • Giannii

    4 months ago

    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
  • Property Sale

    4 months ago

    Probably a FAQ site should be set up so that people who faced common problems could find the answers there.
  • Janliao

    4 months ago

    Are there any new release for blogger platform?
  • aprilwoods

    4 months ago

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

    4 months ago

    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?
  • ryanlow

    4 months ago

    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.
  • Property Singapore

    4 months ago

    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.

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