http://textpattern.com/ Textpattern Tips – Integrate Disqus with Textpattern Integrate Disqus with Textpattern - comments https://textpattern.tips/integrate-disqus-with-textpattern Wed, 18 Sep 13 00:37:09 +0000 Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Anton Zuiker 1 1 Thu, 28 Feb 13 12:07:22 +0000 Thanks for the tip. I've been using Disqus comments on my Txp-powered blog for a couple of years. Works well.

]]> Thanks for the tip. I've been using Disqus comments on my Txp-powered blog for a couple of years. Works well.

]]> Anton Zuiker Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Nixon Parker 1 1 Sat, 02 Mar 13 09:03:11 +0000 Thanks for sharing this information. I am thinking to integrate Disqus with my blog. Through this blog will not have more spamming links and also we can do conversation with blog followers.

]]> Thanks for sharing this information. I am thinking to integrate Disqus with my blog. Through this blog will not have more spamming links and also we can do conversation with blog followers.

]]> Nixon Parker Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by 'Merica 1 1 Sat, 09 Mar 13 19:18:52 +0000 This is great I'm in the process of porting my site to TXP and was thinking about using Disqus.

Do you know if we can use our own web fonts wih Disqus? Typekit google web fonts etc

Anyhow thx for the tut I'm coming back to TXP after a 5 year hiatus man did I miss it!

]]> This is great I'm in the process of porting my site to TXP and was thinking about using Disqus.

Do you know if we can use our own web fonts wih Disqus? Typekit google web fonts etc

Anyhow thx for the tut I'm coming back to TXP after a 5 year hiatus man did I miss it!

]]> 'Merica Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Jonathan Stubbs 1 1 Sun, 10 Mar 13 02:46:18 +0000 Hi Matt and welcome back to TXP! Where did you go for the last 5 years - that's a long time!

I've not quite finished with Disqus here on TXP Tips. The documentation at Disqus isn't that good but I did find this link: http://help.disqus.com/cust...

Basically what is supposed to happen is that Disqus inherits your styles but I've found that's not quite working. In our case TXP Tips has 2 style sheets and it doesn't seem to pick up the styles from the main sheet. When I get time I'll investigate further.

]]> Hi Matt and welcome back to TXP! Where did you go for the last 5 years - that's a long time!

I've not quite finished with Disqus here on TXP Tips. The documentation at Disqus isn't that good but I did find this link: http://help.disqus.com/cust...

Basically what is supposed to happen is that Disqus inherits your styles but I've found that's not quite working. In our case TXP Tips has 2 style sheets and it doesn't seem to pick up the styles from the main sheet. When I get time I'll investigate further.

]]> Jonathan Stubbs Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by 'Merica 1 1 Mon, 11 Mar 13 10:31:11 +0000 I was playing around with other CMS's trying out some custom stuff using SQLite etc. It's funny I was getting extremely frustrated with the lack of flexibility in most CMS's and I picked up my old Textpattern Solutions book and started browsing through it again and decided to check out 4.5.

The new responsive design was nice but man I missed the lean core there's a plugin for everything and I've already written my own for the one I couldn't find.

Regarding Disqus yeah it seems to be using Arial here on my laptop whereas you're using Proxima Nova I believe for your design which is very nice BTW looks great on my Ipad and my Android phone. I'm going with FF Dagny Web Pro for body copy on my next iteration.

Free time is a precious commodity here too I'll have to root around the Disqus site myself once I reach that point.

]]> I was playing around with other CMS's trying out some custom stuff using SQLite etc. It's funny I was getting extremely frustrated with the lack of flexibility in most CMS's and I picked up my old Textpattern Solutions book and started browsing through it again and decided to check out 4.5.

The new responsive design was nice but man I missed the lean core there's a plugin for everything and I've already written my own for the one I couldn't find.

Regarding Disqus yeah it seems to be using Arial here on my laptop whereas you're using Proxima Nova I believe for your design which is very nice BTW looks great on my Ipad and my Android phone. I'm going with FF Dagny Web Pro for body copy on my next iteration.

Free time is a precious commodity here too I'll have to root around the Disqus site myself once I reach that point.

]]> 'Merica Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Pablo Apiolazza 1 1 Thu, 09 May 13 15:44:06 +0000 Hi I was wondering... how do you implement this on an MLP site?

]]> Hi I was wondering... how do you implement this on an MLP site?

]]> Pablo Apiolazza Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Jonathan Stubbs 1 1 Thu, 09 May 13 22:51:31 +0000 You mean Disqus? I haven't tried but I can't think of any major issues offhand. Give it a go and post back with any problems maybe?

]]> You mean Disqus? I haven't tried but I can't think of any major issues offhand. Give it a go and post back with any problems maybe?

]]> Jonathan Stubbs Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Pablo Apiolazza 1 1 Fri, 10 May 13 17:54:45 +0000 I followed the steps but the disqus page renders nothing. Is it possible that MLP has something to do with it?

]]> I followed the steps but the disqus page renders nothing. Is it possible that MLP has something to do with it?

]]> Pablo Apiolazza Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Jonathan Stubbs 1 1 Fri, 10 May 13 22:43:43 +0000 Hi Pablo. Sounds like it is but hard to say from here. If the Disqus comments aren't showing up on any pages I'd check first that the embed code is ok and also look at the Disqus admin page to see if any errors are reported there.

If that looks ok then maybe the URL rewriting is throwing off Disqus. It might be worth posting on the MLP thread over at the forums.

]]> Hi Pablo. Sounds like it is but hard to say from here. If the Disqus comments aren't showing up on any pages I'd check first that the embed code is ok and also look at the Disqus admin page to see if any errors are reported there.

If that looks ok then maybe the URL rewriting is throwing off Disqus. It might be worth posting on the MLP thread over at the forums.

]]> Jonathan Stubbs Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Radek Korzeniewski 1 1 Fri, 06 Sep 13 11:05:56 +0000 As far as I know there is one major problem with disqus on textpattern: you can integrate it (functionality) but posts content is not visible for google and other search engines. Take a look at a source of this page and try to find posts... so we can discuss but it won't be found.

Thats because of the code - disqus provide simple JS to include in the code so the content is only in browser/client side.

Other cms platforms (wp/joomla etc) use disqus native plugins/widgets - those are using php/ajax and disqus content is included as a page content. That's why in my opinion:) you shouldn't use disqus on TXP...

]]> As far as I know there is one major problem with disqus on textpattern: you can integrate it (functionality) but posts content is not visible for google and other search engines. Take a look at a source of this page and try to find posts... so we can discuss but it won't be found.

Thats because of the code - disqus provide simple JS to include in the code so the content is only in browser/client side.

Other cms platforms (wp/joomla etc) use disqus native plugins/widgets - those are using php/ajax and disqus content is included as a page content. That's why in my opinion:) you shouldn't use disqus on TXP...

]]> Radek Korzeniewski Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Jonathan Stubbs 1 1 Fri, 06 Sep 13 11:57:56 +0000 Hi Radek I think you raise some good points about commenting and Textpattern. The in-built commenting system TXP employs isn't too good while Disqus allows us to essentially drop in a solution which generally works.

But as you say having invisible posts for search engines is hardly ideal. I think Destry raised the topic in a forum or Google+ post saying that it might be a good idea for TXP (mag) to move from Disqus to a new Google+ commenting system that was/is being tested (I'm not sure of the status). That might be a good idea but then we'd be tied to Google instead of Disqus as a service not that either is bad in and of itself.

If other CMS platforms offer greater functionality then that speaks of the popularity of the platform rather than Disqus itself which does offer a very good service for free.

]]> Hi Radek I think you raise some good points about commenting and Textpattern. The in-built commenting system TXP employs isn't too good while Disqus allows us to essentially drop in a solution which generally works.

But as you say having invisible posts for search engines is hardly ideal. I think Destry raised the topic in a forum or Google+ post saying that it might be a good idea for TXP (mag) to move from Disqus to a new Google+ commenting system that was/is being tested (I'm not sure of the status). That might be a good idea but then we'd be tied to Google instead of Disqus as a service not that either is bad in and of itself.

If other CMS platforms offer greater functionality then that speaks of the popularity of the platform rather than Disqus itself which does offer a very good service for free.

]]> Jonathan Stubbs Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by James Lomax 1 1 Sun, 15 Sep 13 16:39:10 +0000 What do you do to finish? I'm not good at this stuff and it seems there's a final stage where I need some instructions. I've done everything here but my site is just the same as it was - no Disqus.

]]> What do you do to finish? I'm not good at this stuff and it seems there's a final stage where I need some instructions. I've done everything here but my site is just the same as it was - no Disqus.

]]> James Lomax Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Jonathan Stubbs 1 1 Sun, 15 Sep 13 23:29:17 +0000 Hi James at what point is your install breaking down? Did you follow the tutorial above with all the stages?

]]> Hi James at what point is your install breaking down? Did you follow the tutorial above with all the stages?

]]> Jonathan Stubbs Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by James Lomax 1 1 Tue, 17 Sep 13 16:50:30 +0000 Hi Jonathan yes - I've done everything there and all of it works but I don't understand how you insert the disqus comments into txp articles.

]]> Hi Jonathan yes - I've done everything there and all of it works but I don't understand how you insert the disqus comments into txp articles.

]]> James Lomax Comment on Integrate Disqus with Textpattern by Jonathan Stubbs 1 1 Wed, 18 Sep 13 00:37:09 +0000 Its just a case of embedding the code block from Disqus into your page template or form wherever you want the comments to appear. Hope I understand correctly otherwise maybe you could post a URL and/or your page/form contents to see what's happening.

]]> Its just a case of embedding the code block from Disqus into your page template or form wherever you want the comments to appear. Hope I understand correctly otherwise maybe you could post a URL and/or your page/form contents to see what's happening.

]]> Jonathan Stubbs