In my previous posts I’ve covered the basics of Jekyll, and building a static website framework from the ground up.
As an evangelist for Word Press (not an official job), I know I should spend more time making my site better. Because I spend my time helping other companies get better. One of the things I’d heard people didn’t like about Disqus was the ads.
All while I now help a larger agency and their staff optimize how they support large enterprises adopt Word Press. Not only did I not want ads, but I work hard at creating specific and useful content and I didn’t want the latest pop news to show up on my site. And if you’re using Disqus right now, you might want to think about this too.
That means my visitors – without knowing and without me warning them – were getting tracked while on my site for something Disqus planned to do. He's a blogger, conference speaker, coach, advisor, and manager of people.
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With Django deprecating their contrib comments module, they suggested that we switched to Disqus as an alternative.
It's pretty good, but I found that it was a little tricky to configure stuff on the Javascript side of things.In this post, I’m going to walk you through my experiences with Disqus as a blog owner, my readers’ experiences with it, and the advantages and disadvantages of Disqus.We’ll also cover how it could affect you in your online efforts. From the standpoint of a blog owner, I have nothing but good to say about the back end and functionality of Disqus. One of the great things about my audience is they regularly communicate with me.You can follow the instructions they give you, or you can just use my consolidated script below.Include the following lines somewhere in your main template, replacing variable to tie the thread to the post filename.I picked Disqus because it’s been around a while, has good adoption, and generally seems to work well.