Disqus comments

[Kevin Pelgrims]

Hi all,

I set up FunnelWeb on my own domain and managed to migrate my posts from wordpress.com to FunnelWeb. For comments I want to use Disqus. I imported all the comments and migrated the domain, so all the URLs in Disqus are fine. I also set everything up in FunelWeb with the right shortname. But I don't see the comments on the blogposts yet. Is there an extra step involved that I don't know of, or does it just take a very long time before it's all wired together?

Kevin

[koenmetsu]

Same problem here.
Got everything set up, but no comments yet.

Also, posting on the blog gets me a "just a moment" notice from
disqus. http://screencast.com/t/4b6bcg4kMY8p
I'll look into the disqus docs this week, but if anyone with some
experience with this can help, it would be much appreciated.

Koen

[Aaron Powell]

I'm assuming you're not running off a localhost domain yeah?
Can you check your JavaScript console to see if there's any errors related to Disqus there?

Aaron Powell
MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member

http://apowell.me | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | Github | BitBucket

[Kevin Pelgrims]

No, it's not on localhost.
I don't get any errors in the Chrome devtools or Firebug.

I can post new comments, that is not a problem anymore. But the old comments are not displayed in the Disqus comments on my blogpages. Not that the old comments are that important, but of course I would like to know what's wrong and fix it :)

Could it have something to do with the fact that I'm running the site on /blog instead of the root?

[Aaron Powell]

Oh I thought that all your disqus wasn’t working.

 

I’m far from being an expert on Disqus but my understanding of how the comments work is they are using a unique identifier to work out what to display, and what we use as the ID is the title of the post, well what’s in document.title so if you have that different it could be problematic.

You can change this in the _Public.cshtml file (well ideally override that in your own theme).

 

Aaron Powell
MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member

http://apowell.me | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | Github | BitBucket

 

[Kevin Pelgrims]

Yes, I tried that earlier, but changing the title tag didn't work. It seems that it definitely has something to do with the identifier for Disqus. Does it get set anywhere else?
I have tried writing some comments and I can see on the Disqus website that they create a new thread with name "blogpost title - blogname" instead of just "blogpost title". Even after I change the page title. I've been going through all the script with Firebug, but I can't seem to figure out where the blogname comes from..

[Kevin Pelgrims]

Koen Metsu figured this one out and let me know. As it turned out, this is not a FunnelWeb related problem. But I thought I'd write it down here, in case anyone needs it later.
The trick is to remove the last slash in links of posts in the XML export from WordPress.
Example:  "http://kevinpelgrims.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/bleh/" becomes "http://kevinpelgrims.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/bleh"
Somehow everything wires up nicely when you do that and then import to Disqus. Comments on old posts now show up on the blog post pages in FunnelWeb.

[Jake Ginnivan]

Good to know, we should build that knowledge into our BlogML importer.

 

On an unrelated note, what would everyone think if we moved to Trello to manage work to be done on FunnelWeb?

 

Cheers,

Jake

 

From: funnel...@googlegroups.com [mailto:funnel...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Pelgrims
Sent: Friday, 17 February 2012 8:57 PM
To: funnel...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Disqus comments

 

Koen Metsu figured this one out and let me know. As it turned out, this is not a FunnelWeb related problem. But I thought I'd write it down here, in case anyone needs it later.

http://kevinpelgrims.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/bleh/" becomes "http://kevinpelgrims.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/bleh"

[Aaron Powell]

Work? :P

 

Aaron Powell
MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member

http://apowell.me | http://twitter.com/slace | Skype: aaron.l.powell | Github | BitBucket

 

[koenmetsu]

Hi Aaron

It doesn't directly relate to the BlogML importer, it was the import
straight into Disqus of the exported WordPress that was the cause of
this problem. Wordpress exported the links with a "/" suffix, while
new comments came in without this "/".

On your unrelated note, I'm all in favor of moving to Trello.

Greetings,
Koen

On Feb 19, 11:40 am, Aaron Powell <m...@aaron-powell.com> wrote:
> Work? :P
>
> Aaron Powell

> MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member<http://funnelweblog.com/>
>
> http://apowell.me<http://apowell.me/> |http://twitter.com/slace| Skype: aaron.l.powell | Github<http://github.com/aaronpowell/> | BitBucket<http://hg.apwll.me/>

>
> From: funnel...@googlegroups.com [mailto:funnel...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jake Ginnivan
> Sent: Sunday, 19 February 2012 6:56 PM
> To: funnel...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: RE: Disqus comments
>
> Good to know, we should build that knowledge into our BlogML importer.
>
> On an unrelated note, what would everyone think if we moved to Trello to manage work to be done on FunnelWeb?
>
> Cheers,
> Jake
>

[Kevin Pelgrims]

And here is the result of all the importing and exporting: http://kevinpelgrims.com/blog/
Thanks guys for making such a nice blog engine and I will definitely do my part with pull requests when I find something to be corrected/improved!

About the Trello, I'm all for it :-)

[koenmetsu]

Hi guys,

got mine up and running as well at http://koenmetsu.com.

Got some Disqus issues fixed for the JakeGinnivan theme in the dev
branch as well, so they should be working properly in Recent & Tagged
views.

[Goran Bralo]

nice blog theme and content also :)