Comments on: Disqus?

By: Synthetase

Synthetase — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 00:55:52 +0000

I use Disqus on a couple of other sites. It works well for the user, but I have no idea about the back end.

By: David Meadows

David Meadows — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:01:24 +0000

Forgive my ignorance, but what’s the point? Why wouldn’t you want to use the WordPress comments system? Particularly if it’s on your own domain and you’ve got full control over the database (which I assume is the case for kalyr.co.uk).

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:47:15 +0000

The project I’m working on keeps the static page design, but eliminates the rebuild times. They’re done asynchronously, so you’re not on the hook waiting for a rebuild to finish after you update a post.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:39:05 +0000

I switched from MT to WordPress several years ago after the MT database got corrupted. There’s still a lot of lines in my .htaccess file redirecting incoming links for the old MT pages.

I don’t miss the very lengthy saves for new posts (and new comments) while it rebuilt static pages.

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:24:24 +0000

Side note: this is the project I’m working on that is meant to replace MT and substitute for WP: https://github.com/syegulalp/MeTal

It’s taking a while to get it together, but I’m running one blog with it (if only in a very restricted way) and I plan to migrate everything else to it by the end of the year.

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:21:05 +0000

My particular setup is completely divorced from Movable Type; all the comments are saved on Disqus’s side, which saves server load. Disqus also makes it possible to export all the comments in XML format in case you need to back them up or move them somewhere else, so I’m not too worried about lock-in. Part of why I opted for this setup was because MT’s comment system was so agonizingly slow that synching between Disqus and MT comments would have been no faster than using native MT comments anyway.

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:16:11 +0000

There’s a WordPress plugin that incorporates Disqus. It looks as though it will both import existing comments and mirror new ones into the WordPress database, though searching support issues suggests there are some performance and server load issues with the latter.

By: Serdar Yegulalp

Serdar Yegulalp — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:07:05 +0000

I use it on multiple sites and have had excellent results. I’m using Movable Type rather than WordPress — and soon I won’t be using either of those things if I’m lucky — but it works well.