Disqus on Much Ado About IT

Add Disqus to Jekyll pages

Julian Knight — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:11:00 +0000

Example code to add to every page as a footer to enable the Disqus comments service.

Create footer.html in your site _includes folder or include this in the default layout in _layouts.

{% if page.comments %}
<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script>
 var disqus_config = function () {
 this.page.url = '{{ page.url | absolute_url }}'
 this.page.identifier = '{{ page.id }}'
 };
 (function() { var d = document, s = d.createElement('script');
 s.src = 'https://<<set_this_from_disqus_settings>>.disqus.com/embed.js';
 s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date()); (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s);
 })();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
{% endif %}

<div>Updated: {{ page.date | default: site.time | date: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" }} <a href="#top">Top</a></div>

Note that the default minima theme for Jekyll/GitHub pages includes a setting for this in _config.yml but currently does not include the appropriate include file to let you use it!

Also note that you have very little control over the styling. In particular, the width is set to 100% so make sure that this code is wrapped in a div that is limited to your normal content width.

Updated Blogs

Julian Knight — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:00:35 +0000

Hi to everyone who has followed this blog and my other blogs (Living With Linux and my Development Blog) for a while. The Living With Linux blog is now redirected to the [Linux][1] category on this blog and the development blog redirected to the [Development][2] category. For a long time I’ve been meaning to consolidate the blogs into a single blog and move the main blog from Blogger to WordPress. Well, that has now happened so welcome to the new, updated blog. There may be one or two missing posts and some missing comments but I will fix that as time allows. I also intend to move back to using Disquss for comments which I think gives a much better reader experience and reach. So hopefully, I’ll be more inclined to make better use of the blog again now and I will be trying to bring together not only the larger posts on this blog but also my short posts on Twitter and Diigo in a more consistent and coherent form. [1]: topics/operating-systems/linux “All posts related to the Linux operating system” [2]: /topics/development “All posts related to development and programming”

New Comments System

Julian Knight — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:50:00 +0000

I’ve moved my comments over to [Disqus][1] from the default Blogger comments. It means that you don’t have to log in to comment and you get much better tracking of discussions. My other blog “[Much Ado About IT][2]” has had this for a while and it seems to work really well.

Unfortunately, it does mean that I’ve lost any existing comments – sorry to those who have commented in the past. [1]: http://disqus.com [2]: http://it.knightnet.org.uk

Quick test of new comments system (using DISQUS)

Julian Knight — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:39:00 +0000

Just testing a new commenting system – Disqus. Looks like it works OK so I’ll keep it online for now. Currently, you no longer need to be logged in (previously you needed to present either a Blogger, Google or OpenID credential to comment because of spam) since Disqus is supposed to handle this better. However, if the spam starts to reappear, I’ll have to restrict it again. For blog authors, check out [Psolonoid][1] as well. It provides an easy and controlable way of creating links (like trackbacks) between blog entries. [1]: http://www.psolonoid.com