Jangro - Latest Comments in Hacking Disqus

Re: Hacking Disqus

sean808080 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:10:34 -0000

great stuff here. i bow to your skills.

Re: Hacking Disqus

hack myspace — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:03:39 -0000

Trackbacks are great and should be followed. They link together relevant articles and pass the juice that way.

Re: Hacking Disqus

NBC Filter — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:23:55 -0000

Indeed, this article is a great help.

1. Trackback is a must have
2. A simple but effective one

Re: Hacking Disqus

eng1ne — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:11:22 -0000

Glad to be helpful, Shey. Looking forward to seeing Disqus on your blog!

Re: Hacking Disqus

shey — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:08:21 -0000

thanks for the tip!

Re: Hacking Disqus

shey — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:07:35 -0000

Thanks for the referral!

Re: Hacking Disqus

VladZablotskyy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:18:02 -0000

Daniel,

It's good to know you are working on it. :) I would love to let Disqus to
manage ALL the comments.

Re: Hacking Disqus

danielha — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:25:08 -0000

Hi Vlad,

We're definitely working on data migration still. It's difficult to get right but we won't ignore it.

Re: Hacking Disqus

eng1ne — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:33:22 -0000

I just added your trackback code. Good stuff, thanks!

Re: Hacking Disqus

webomatica — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:50:10 -0000

Thanks for the Trackback Hack. It will serve its purpose until that feature is added to Disqus proper.

Re: Hacking Disqus

VladZablotskyy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:00:12 -0000

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.

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:41:40 -0000

I totally see what you're saying Paul. A unique URL based on the title in the query string creates the page in which the discussion can be held.

That gives disqus a url to link back to as well where the discussion could continue on the blog.

All of this is leading me toward a solution where I just set up a database table to capture the initial question/post which serves as the unique page, and let disqus handle the comments.

Re: Hacking Disqus

paularterburn — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:15:39 -0000

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).

Re: Hacking Disqus

paularterburn — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:07:16 -0000

I just tried that code...I think you might have a big hurdle because you don't know the Disqus user that is logged in.

Re: Hacking Disqus

VladZablotskyy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:33:03 -0000

Thanks for setting me straight on this one ;).

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:28:02 -0000

You could call it a link exchange event. Though if you're bringing along with that the associated stigma with link exchanges where they are harmful to SEO, I don't think that's the case.

Trackbacks are sort of accepted link exchanges. I'd guess that at the worst they're discounted, but not penalized.

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:47 -0000

Excellent Paul. Clearly you've been spending some serious quality time with the Disqus Javascript. Thanks for sharing what you've learned. It's a big help.

Re: Hacking Disqus

paularterburn — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:01:15 -0000

You can still do it...you have to copy this file to your local server and take out the following code:

if(disqus_message.length > 400) {
disqus_message = disqus_message.substring(0, disqus_message.indexOf(' ', 350));
}

The idea would be to have a form on a page with Title/Message/Category - when that form is submitted it would pull up another page with this code:

<script>
var disqus_title = <?php $_GET['title'];
var disqus_message = <?php $_GET['message']; ?>
<?php
if($_GET['catid'] == "Affiliate Marketing") {
$catid = "7866";
} elseif($_GET['catid'] == "Web 2.0 Goodness") {
$catid = "7867";
} elseif($_GET['catid'] == "DLP TV Repair") {
$catid = "7868";
} else {
$catid = "6132";
}
?>
disqus_category_id = '<?php $catid; ?>
var disqus_url = "";
</script>
<div id="disqus_thread"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.jangro.com/....../embed.js"></script>

Re: Hacking Disqus

VladZablotskyy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:38:28 -0000

I am guessing it's the Dofollow plugin that is at fault.... On the other hand I was just thinking... When you show a track back on your blog, in a way it becomes a "link exchange" event with the website that just linked to you. Am I off the mark here?

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:02:00 -0000

I'm not sure, Vlad. The code in both in the core comments.php and what we pasted into Disqus' comments.php calls a WP function to get the link: comment_author_link().

I figured that the dofollow plugins hook in at that level, and if so, it should work the same way.

Re: Hacking Disqus

VladZablotskyy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:46:07 -0000

I do have Lucia's Linky Love turned on. Correct me if I am wrong, the "dofollow" plugins generally affect only what is in the "commnets.php". I think the dofollow pluing should be modified so it is working with Disqus' comments.php.... unless of course I remove the nofollow in the core files.

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:34:26 -0000

That's just wordpress putting nofollows on all comments, though you're only using wordpress for the comments that are trackbacks. They're treated just like comments in WP.

If you turn on the dofollow plugin that should take care of it.

Re: Hacking Disqus

VladZablotskyy — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:05:28 -0000

Scott,

I just noticed that with your trakcback hack, the links are "nofollowed". If it was me, I would rather have my comments "noffolowed" but give credit to legitimate pingbacks. Can I remove the "nofollows" from trackbacks?

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:05:38 -0000

ok paul, I don't think this is quite what I'm looking for.

I want people to be able to post a new topic, as if they started a new discussion directly on my jangro.disqus.com community, in a specific category, like this:

http://jangro.disqus.com/c/7868/new-thread/

There is no unique blog entry to attach each thread to.

Basically, I want to use the "forum" functionality that disqus has, but short-circuit it to my blog as a front end.

Re: Hacking Disqus

jangro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:49:41 -0000

Definitely up for a round. any time!

Anyone else? :)