This is just a quick write up on how easy it is to add comments to your blog or
site with Disqus. You’ll need to create an account at
disqus. Once that is done you can go to your dashboard and add a new site for
the specific site you want to track comments on. The last step is to simple
follow the instructions at Install section within your new sites admin page.
In my case all I had to add was:
<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
// required: replace example with your forum shortname
var disqus_shortname = 'example';
/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
(function() {
var dsq = document.createElement('script');
dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] ||
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
})();
</script>
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Once I replaced the ‘example’ disqus shortname with the shortname of my site
everything worked perfectly. The only thing you’ll find is that if you have
a static blog with jekyll as I do you won’t be able to see the comments on the
static site when you startup jekyll locally with the “jekyll –server” command.