Adding comments with Disqus

Right now Yola does not have it's own comments widget, but we have integrated with a third party service, Disqus (pronounced "discuss").  You can use this service if you want to enable comments on your blog.

Here is how to do this:

1. To get the comment code, your site needs to be published. For more information on publishing your site: Publishing Options.

2. Click on the "Blog Manager" button.

3. Click on the "Settings" tab. Click on the "Disqus" logo to visit www.disqus.com and register for an account by by clicking on "Sign up, free".

4. On Disqus, register your site in the blue box.  Enter your site URL, site name and site short name.

5. Create your Disqus Profile in the green box.  Enter your username, password, and email address.  Click on continue.

6. Choose your language and any other optional features you'd like to include with your commenting platform.  Then click on continue.

 7. In the "Choose Install Instructions" box, click on Yola/Synthasite.

8. Copy the code in the #2 box.

9. Paste the code back in the dialogue box (Settings) on Yola.  Then click on done.

10. When you preview your site and click on the blog title, you may see this message:  "This page could not be reached by Disqus. If you are testing locally or on a password-protected page, please use the disqus_developer parameter as detailed here.."  - please don't worry about that.  You just need to update your site and you will see the comment box working on your published site.

You only need to add the code to your site once, and the comment feature will be enabled for all of your posts. You can then login to your Disqus account to moderate any comments.

Please note: The comment box will only show up on your published site when you click on one of your post titles and scroll to the bottom of the post.

You can also set up your blog post to display the number of comments you have for that particular blog post.  

If this is something you'd like to add, please follow these steps in addition to the steps provided above:

1.  Copy the code in #3 box.

2. On your blog page, drag over an HTML widget (click on back, under "content" to see the HTML widget) and place at the bottom-most part of your blog page.
3. Paste in the code.
4. Go to your blog post and click on the HTML button. At the end of your post content, add the code given in #4 which looks like this: 
<a href="http://example.commy_article.html#disqus_thread">Comments</a>
5. Replace the http://example.com/my_article.html with your blog post url.  This would be something like http://yoursitename.yolasite.com/yourblogpagename/yourblogposttitle.
6. Click on OK.
7. You should see the number of comments you have for that blog post.
8. Do the above steps again for each blog post where you want to display the number of comments.