Re: "I could rip off your comment form"
You can override it by setting these variables right before the javascript code for the comment form:
var disqustitle = "Whatever You Want";
var disqusurl = "
http://www.whateveryouwant.com";
You can then pull it back using the URL if you go to http://jangro.disqus.com/?url=http://www.jangro.com/a/2008/04/08/hacking-disqus/' href='http://jangro.disqus.com/?url=http://www.jangro.com/a/2008/04/08/hacking-disqus/">http://jangro.disqus.com/?url=http://www.jangro.com/a/2008/04/08/hacking-disqus/'>http://jangro.disqus.com/?url=http://www.jangro.com/a/2008/04/08/hacking-disqus/">http://jangro.disqus.com/?url=http://www.jangro.com/a/2008/04/08/hacking-disqus/
It would almost have to be a two-step process - Type a title/Choose a category and take them to the page where they put in a comment....which would almost be better because otherwise you would lose the comment-tracking features if they were just "creating" a thread (FriendFeed, any followers through Disqus).
Daniel,
Since you are following this thread I though I would jump in with my own request...
The only reason I did not allow Disqus to manage comments on every single posts on my blog was because it would hide the exiting comments. I would like to see a feature that would import the exiting comments into Disqus unless of course there is away to show existent comments.
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Great help! This has the Trackbacks showing up for me. Works as promised. Question: on your main blog page (i.e., not a single post page), where it shows the number of comments, should the number of trackbacks be included in this number also? General blog etiquette question. If yes, how do you get the trackbacks to count as comments on the main index page?
Im suprised you havent bought up the duplicate content issues... Disqus stores copies of all blog comments on their site, because they have now main comments on respective blogs indexable surely this is going to result in duplicate content issues with google and the major search engines... what are your views on this? comments are valuable source of keywords but surely if these are displayed on a larger, more popular site such as disqus their value is going to be lost?
"colorchart",
My blog is pretty well established and gets some decent weight in google, so maybe if I had a newer blog, it could be a little concerning. But even so, I think there's enough difference between what's on the disqus pages and how it is organized and my blog that there isn't really a duplicate content concern for me.
Let me ask you an SEO question: Do you really get any benefit from commenting around with colorchart as your username? Really makes me wonder how genuine your comments are.
There is a very small seo value but not alot really... I put it there so people know where i come from... as for my comments being genuine then that is something for you to decide...
As for what you said about duplicate content... Everything ive read in researching the subject says that google (and as far as i know the other majors too) judge duplicate content on a phrase or keyword density basis which means it doesnt really matter where on the page it appears... I may be wrong because im no expert but surely its something worth investigating.
I didn't delete your comment and am talking to you, so clearly it seems to me that your comments are genuine. You're not in very good company with others who stuff their names in comments for SEO purposes.
I'm happy to have a real person giving real insights no matter what you call yourself.
The duplicate content thing is certainly worth investigating. I do know that if I search for certain exact phrases that appear in a comment, I may get only my disqus page as that result, not my blog. But, that's my disqus page, and hopefully if that person is interested in what the post was about, they'd come looking.
So on one hand, there may be duplicate content concerns, and on the other there could be SEO benefits in casting a broader, more powerful net.
At the end of the day, I can't say that there's been any significant change in search traffic with our without disqus, but I may be wrong in that perception.
Good features are shared here about disqus.Nofollow and dofollow features are well discussed here.It shows the technology improvement as better than before days.
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No video for this post today. It's just pure geekery that just cannot be made any less geeky or any more interesting by staring at my talking head.
Have I mentioned before that I <3 Disqus? I think maybe I have.
And a big thanks to the disqus guys for adding in a quick feature request I had that allowed me to pull my own disqus comments from every blog into my lifestream here on my homepage.
There are some other features that I'd like to see, and to work that out on my own, I've been doing some hacking and tweaking to get Disqus to do exactly what I want in Wordpress. Here's what I've done so far and how you can implement it on your own.
If you do make these changes, keep a few things in mind:
Trackbacks
Disqus doesn't have any support at all for trackbacks. But since Wordpress will still grab and store them in your comment database, you can still display those. Add the following code somewhere in your wp-plugins/disqus/comments.php script. Be sure to edit the one in the plugin dir. I put mine way down at the bottom.
<h3>Trackbacks</h3> <ol> <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?> <?php $commenttype = getcommenttype(); ?> <?php if($commenttype != 'comment') { ?> <li><?php commentauthorlink() ?></li> <?php } ?> <?php endforeach; ?> </ol>DoFollow/NoFollow
Disqus posts all links in comments as dofollow links. (sans the rel="nofollow"). That's not that bad since Disqus has measures to prevent spammers. But it doesn't stop the comment monkeys.
So I've been playing with a few different ways do put nofollow on some of the spammier comments while taking the opportunity to give dofollow back to the good guys.
Here's what I did, again to comments.php. The bold code is what I added, I've included a little context so you can put it in yourself:
<ul id="dsq-comments"> <?php foreach ( $disqusresponse['posts'] as $comment ) : ?> <?php //SCJ added check for rel=nofollow if ($comment['points'] < 1 || $comment['user']['isanonymous']) { $follow = ' rel="nofollow" '; } else { $follow = ""; } //SCJ end change $profileurl = DISQUSURL . '/people/' . $comment['user']['profile'] . '/'; ?>That sets the $follow var which I just slip into the website link here, down about 30 lines from the first change.
<?php if ( $comment['user']['url'] ) : ?> <li><a href="<?php echo $comment['user']['url']; ?>" target="_blank" <?php echo $follow?>>Website</a></li> <?php endif ; ?>Feature Requests for Disqus
While I'm at it, here are some feature requests...
What do you say, does anybody have other wishes? They're hiring and surely need stuff for that Python hacker to do.