Plone discussion mechanism replaced by collective.disqus

Installation and configuration

It's only few easy steps to integrate DISQUS with your Plone site:

• create account on DISQUS

• add you website in DISQUS admin panel (remember configured website short name)

• install collective.disqus: - add to your buildout:

  eggs =
    collective.disqus
  ...
  zcml =
    collective.disqus
  

  • use Add products in Site Setup or QuickInstaller to activate it

• go to Site Setup -> DISQUS comment system form and configure Website short name

• enable Allow discussion option in content objects

Current version of collective.disqus doesn't migrate comments. So all comments that was created before installation will be hidden (not removed).

Motivation

Default Plone discussion mechanism doesn't have nice panel to administer comments. It's hard to find new comments. It's not possible to block posts with links or some other unwelcome contents.

There is few products that tries to fill up this gaps:

• quintagroup.plonecomments
• collective.discussionplus
• EasyCommenting

In clean Plone commenting is allowed only for authenticated site members. This can be of course also widen:

• plone.openid
• AnonymousCommenting
• quintagroup.plonecaptchas

Installation and proper configuration of so many plugins will take some time and functionality will not be full.

But on the web there are much more specialized tools for commenting:

• JS-Kit
• DISQUS
• IntenseDebate

This comments system can be easyly integrated with sites - user just need to create account and add some special code into his website.

I use DISQUS because:

• it was ease to integrate
• it's easy to manage comments and threads
• has clean admin panel
• it's free, without adverts
• look & feel is similar to Plone's

Example

Example of DISQUS comment system integrated with Plone you can see at the bottom of this page.