Display your latest Disqus comments in a page, post or widget.
How do I use it?
Step 1: register for an API key
To use this plugin you need to register for an API key.
- Go to the Disqus applications website and log in
- Click on the ‘registering an application’ link
- Enter the required information – label, description and website
- Click the ‘Register my application’ button
- Click on the ‘Details’ link at the top of the page
- Scroll down to the ‘API Key’ field and copy the value into the setting above
Step 2: install and setup the plugin
- Install and activate the plugin
- Browse to the ‘Settings’ -> ‘Disqus Latest Comments’ menu
- Add in your Disqus shortname and API key
- Include the [disqus-latest] shortcode in the page, post or widget where you want the latest comments displayed
What options are there?
- Number of comments listed
- Show or hide avatar images
- Show or hide moderator comments
- Size of avatar images
- Use relative (1 day ago) or absolute (1/1/2000) time
- Comment length to show
- A choice of three pre-configured styles – grey, blue and green or the ability to use your own custom CSS
- Ability to bypass caching (for debugging)
- Ability to bypass page level caching – lets you display new comments when using a caching plugin
- Ability to make linked Disqus usernames open in a new window (target=’_blank’)
You can see a working example of the plugin at www.itsupportguides.com.