One of the things I envy the most about content management systems like Joomla and WordPress, when am making other type of websites, is how easy it is to add widgets to them, one such widget would be comments.
There are many comment management systems out there that are easy to install in any type of website, but my favorite one is disqus and these are the reasons why.
- Easy install
- Facebook Connect,Twitter Sign In, OpenId and YahooID enabled
- Video Comments
- Social Reactions
- Free (we use the free version but there are paid versions)
- No database needed (you manage your site from disqus)
We use it here at WebHole and you might have seen it around, but you might be surprised to know we don’t use WordPress’ plugin, instead I have decided to use disqus’ “Universal Code” as they call it, and this is what it looks like.
Put this code where you want the comment box to appear.
<div id="disqus_thread"> </div script type="text/javascript" src="http://disqus.com/forums/yoursite/embed.js"> </script><noscript><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/yoursite/?url=ref">View the discussion thread.</a> </noscript><a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a
Yep, it’s that simple. But before you go and paste this at your site you have to sign up to your get a code specific to your site.
Want to know how to use disqus without your WordPress Database?
- Disable the comments on every page
- Comment out the whole “comments.php” since you wont need it (this prevents spam but it’s optional)
- Add the universal code after the post in your template.