Disqus is a Javascript-based commenting system, which is ideal for static websites. It offers a cleaner user interface for both users and admins compared to IntenseDebate.

Usage

Configure _config/site.yml

Your _config/site.yml needs to include the property disqus with your account short name. If you are working on a site which is not accessible from the internet, but still want to be able to test the Disqus comment system, be sure to set the boolean disqus_developer property to true.

Property	Description
disqus	The short name for your Disqus account
disqus_generate_id	Setting this property to true tells the extension to automatically generate a Disqus identifier as an MD5 digest of the post's date and slug. If this property is not defined, or false, the post will only be identified by its fully-qualified URL.
disqus_developer	Setting this property to true allows Disqus to load when you are running the site locally (or on a domain which is not accessible from the public internet)

Enabling disqus_generate_id is recommended so that the comments are not tied to the post's URL, but rather its signature, thus simplifying migration.

If you are using multiple profiles, you should set this properties per profile so that, for instance, you don't comments on your staging site with comments on your production site.

Here's an example of how you might configure these properties when using multiple profiles:

profiles:
  development:
    base_url: http://localhost:4242
    disqus: mysite-development
    disqus_developer: true
  staging:
    base_url: http://staging.mysite.com
    disqus: mysite-staging
  development:
    base_url: http://mysite.com
    disqus: mysite
    disqus_generate_id: true

Use page.disqus_comments

This will emit the javascript necessary to provide Disqus comment integration for the comments for the target page. Typically this should only be used once per page (though it can be used multiple times if you set the Disqus Identifier).

.content
  = page.content
.comments
  = page.disqus_comments 

Use page.disqus_comments_link

This will emit the javascript necessary to provide Disqus comment links for the target page. (You can control the text that is emitted from the Disqus admin console for the site).

.byline
  = page.disqus_comments_link
.content
  = page.content
.comments
  = page.disqus_comments 

You can also invoke this method for each post on a master aggregator (or index) page. In this case you refer to the method from the iteration variable (e.g., post). You can even call it multiple times per post (for instance in the header and the footer).

- for post in site.posts
  .post
    .byline
      = post.disqus_comments_link
    .abstract
      = post.abstract
    .footer
      = post.disqus_comments_link

If you want the link to include comment and reaction counts, make sure to call the page.disqus_comments_count method on the page.

Use page.disqus_comments_count

This will emit the javascript necessary to provide comments and reactions counts on the comment links. Call this anywhere on the page below all posts, preferrably as close to the end body tag as possible.

= page.disqus_comments_count

Enable conditionally

Since Disqus loads comments from the internet, you may want to disable it altogether in development. You can do that by leaving the disqus property unset in your development profile and using a conditional statement in the page template.

.content
  = page.content
.comments
  - if site.disqus
    = page.disqus_comments 

Parameters

None

Examples

Generic Installation

Awestruct::Extensions::Pipeline.new do
  extension Awestruct::Extensions::Disqus.new()
end

See Also

• IntenseDebate