jekyll-disqus-comments

A system for syncing Disqus comments to Jekyll

Jekyll Disqus comments

Import comments from a Disqus blog into Jekyll

If you have migrated an posts from a Disqus blog to Jekyll, this plugin will allow you to keep the comments from the old Disqus posts.

This plugin assumes that the Disqus blog has not been deactivated. If it is unreachable via the Disqus API, this plugin will not be able to fetch comments.

This plugin will download the posts comments from Disqus and cache them in the _comments/ folder at the root of the Jekyll site. To refresh the comments, simply empty the _comments/ folder

Installation

Copy the following files to your Jekyll site folder.

_rake/disqus_comments.rake
_plugins/static_comments.rb (Not necessary if you're already using jekyll-static-comments)
_includes/comments.html
Rakefile (Not necessary if you already have a Rakefile that loads _rake/*)

Disqus API Key

To use the plugin, you will need to obtain a Disqus API key and add it to your _config.yml

Add the following lines to your _config.yml

comments:
  disqus:
    short_name: YOUR-DISQUS-FORUM-SHORTNAME-HERE
    api_key:    YOUR-DISQUS-PUBLIC-KEY-HERE

Importing Disqus Comments

Importing comments from Disqus is as simple as running rake disquscomments

Template Setup

Copy the following line into your Post template where you would like comments to appear.

{% include comments.html %}

Alternatively, you could use _includes/comments.html as a guide to custom taylor the code to fit your site.

You will also need to add some CSS to style comments appropriately.

License

You don't have to do anything special to choose one license or the other and you don't have to notify anyone which license you are using.

_plugins/static_comments.rb from jekyll-static-comments and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3

./Rakefile from jekyll-bootstrap and licensed under The MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.