Is there a way to integrate disqus comments with k2? This would be awesome. I've seen success and failure messages on this forum, but no clear instructions. If anybody has figured it out please provide a tutorial. Thanks!

"Disqus 2.2 will work on K2 - coming soon" -Joomlaworks twitter

I asked yesterday 9/6/2009

Didn't want to make an additional thread regarding this, so I thought I'd bump it.

I installed the Disqus plugin, but have been unable to get the commenting to work on K2. Is there something I might have forgotten to do that might get the comment system up and running?

Please disregard my comment. I did not realize Disqus will not be available until 2.2.

Cristina Solana said:Didn't want to make an additional thread regarding this, so I thought I'd bump it.

I installed the Disqus plugin, but have been unable to get the commenting to work on K2. Is there something I might have forgotten to do that might get the comment system up and running?

Thanks Dave, I thought I will have to wait for a new version of K2, I will try your mod.

I have a slightly different problem with this -- I installed Disqus today, which appears to be version 2.1, but now, in my K2 articles, I have duplicate "comment/reaction" things at the bottom of the introtext (on the front page) but, since I turned off, in K2, in the category of this article, the comment/anchor thingie, when you click to go to the actual page of the article, there is no comment/anchor thingie at all. So, how I can prevent the comment/anchor thingie from duplicating in the introtext, and yet leave it present on the article's full text?

Let me reiterate yet again:
WE NEED SOME DOCS FOR THIS THING!!!!!!!!!

And I'm not really sure why I'm even wasting my time to pose this query here, since no one has yet answered any of my others. I guess hope really does spring eternal. *sigh*

I've actually figured this one out, by selecting, in the settings for the Disqus plugin, only those categories/menus which are NOT K2, then changing the setting in the K2_content module to show the comment anchor thingie -- problem solved.

But I'm still waiting to hear from that fellow who mentioned the "45 min video" and "templating docs", to point out to me where I can find these resources. I've seen them mentioned in a couple of spots, but have yet to find them myself. C'mon, can't someone tell me where they're hidden? Please???



Andria Duncan said:I have a slightly different problem with this -- I installed Disqus today, which appears to be version 2.1, but now, in my K2 articles, I have duplicate "comment/reaction" things at the bottom of the introtext (on the front page) but, since I turned off, in K2, in the category of this article, the comment/anchor thingie, when you click to go to the actual page of the article, there is no comment/anchor thingie at all. So, how I can prevent the comment/anchor thingie from duplicating in the introtext, and yet leave it present on the article's full text?
Let me reiterate yet again:
WE NEED SOME DOCS FOR THIS THING!!!!!!!!!

And I'm not really sure why I'm even wasting my time to pose this query here, since no one has yet answered any of my others. I guess hope really does spring eternal. *sigh*

I think I missed somethin... it doesn't work for me...

Dave Marshall said:For those of you wanting to add Disqus.com comments to your K2 it is very easy to implement. After registering and setting up your disqus account you will have two sets of code from disqus. I can not post them here because they are unique to your URL. The first line of code supplied by Disqus which is after this line in the install instructions: 1. Copy and paste the following embed code anywhere into your page.

Copy the code and add it to add to your: components/com_k2/templates/default/item.php
and add the code at around line 576 just before the "div class="clr" tag.

Now you need the JavaScript code from Disqus which is right after this line in the install instructions:

2. Copy the following comment count code and paste it right before the closing "/body" tag.

Add this code to your templates index.php right before the "/body" tag.

Now go to the K2 administration and turn off commenting in the parameters and save. You also need to turn off commenting anchors in the category settings. That's it, you should now have Disqus working with K2. If you want to have a "Recent Comments", "Popular Comments", "Top Commenters" or a combination of all three together, just go to your Disqus account, select the tools tab and set up which selection you need. Now copy the code and add it to a new module of type "Custom HTML". You now have a recent comment mod. Hope this helps someone!

Cheers
Dave

sorry to jump in on this - but i've tried the adding of the Disqus code and it doesn't work

basically, i'm just playing, but i like disqus - will it work one day?

Dear All,

K2Joom has managed to integrate Disqus into K2 items.
A full guide is available at k2joom.com

Hope you get this working.

Simon
K2Joom.com

I am by no means a developer but the information provided a this link
8.4 Integrating Disqus Commenting
Worked like a charm.
Thanks all!

One thing I can't seem to figure out is how do I hide disgus. It is showing on all my pages even if I have comments disabled in the K2 category?

The link is no longer working as the site has completely changed.

Anyone with the code to the solution of integrating Disqus comments into K2?

Hi there,

No idea how comprehensive the KJoom article was, but as this is something I've done manually myself a few times, I've posted a quick tutorial.

You can see it in action here: thinksync.com.au/blog

And here's the tutorial: thinksync.com.au/blog/code/integrating-disqus-with-k2

Hope this helps!

All of his stuff is at simon.getk2.org now.

Can you please fix this link?

Simon Wells (K2 Support) said:
Dear All,
K2Joom has managed to integrate Disqus into K2 items.
A full guide is available at k2joom.com

Hope you get this working.

Simon
K2Joom.com