WHAT: As our community continues to expand, we will be implementing a commenting WordPress plugin to International Free Press that accommodates users that prefer to comment on posts using either their WordPress, Facebook, Google+ and/or Disqus accounts. The name of this plugin is Heateor Social Comments.
WHY: A little over 2 months ago we migrated our platform and community from a Disqus Channel known as Canadian Free Press to our current WordPress Website known as International Free Press. Most of our loyal supporters continued to supporter platform after the move. Now that we are hosted by WordPress, we continue to facilitate commenting using your existing Disqus accounts (note: this will not change).
However, since our move, we have attracted 5,797 unique WordPress visitors to our new website, and have 392 active WordPress followers. Our top 2 referrers are Facebook, and Twitter. In all, we are averaging around 200 of these unique visitors PER DAY. If only they could comment and participate. Well, now they can…
WHEN: Immediately. Upon posting of this thread, the Disqus commenting plugin will be turned off, and the Heateor Social Comments plugin will be activated.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR: There are some known bugs that affect Disqus comments upon installation and activation of this plugin. Some known issues include incorrect comment counts appearing on the home page, and comments posted sometimes appearing in the wrong thread. Please bear with us over the next 6 or 7 days as we work through these bugs and adjust the coding to ensure everything is working as it should.
If you experience a glitch resultant from the implementation of Heateor Social Comments, please either leave a comment below detailing your experience, or click the Contact IFP button at the top, and fill out the form.
Thank you for your continued support!
Depends on the privacy settings of the person that posts what you are clicking on.
We’re doing some maintenance stuff right now. Try again please. Refresh the page.
Try now please and let me know.
With any luck and a lot of effort, could this turn out to be a facebook competitor? Wouldn’t that be great. I HATE facebook.
That’s the plan.
If anyone is experiencing any difficulties, please make them known here…
Just so you know I can’t log in here anymore. I have to log in on your CFP channel then all is good. I used to log in here but no more. Whatever. Theres other things not right as well.
We’re working on them as I type this.
It has to do with Browser support of third-party cookies. For browsers that have an ad blocker installed/integrated, those blockers will block 3rd party cookies by default. But when a browser goes to your site, the Disqus plugin is coming from Disqus, not from your site. So the cookies that the Disqus plugin uses to try to read if you are logged in, and who you are, are not accessible to the Disqus plugin because your site is not Disqus.com.
There are ways to get around this on a browser like Brave, which will allow you to turn off shields for a site, but can also give you more fine-grained control over what you’re blocking, even on the mobile app. In this screen cap, I’ve turned off blocking scripts, and third party cookies, and kept fingerprinting blocked (how a site can identify the type of device you are using, and in some cases, the individual device):
What I don’t understand is, when I tested it before (about a month ago) it would sync the Disqus comments to the WP database, and the homepage would should that count. So, although there was a time-lag in syncing the comments, the homepage would show a somewhat accurate comment count. Now though, the comments aren’t syncing and the homepage is only showing the wp comment count, which for most theads is 0.
Disqus may have changed how their system interacts with their older plugin. Apparently they made a few changes a couple of weeks ago. You may need to make some adjustments where the API key is handled…
I might just delete the Heateor plugin, Disqus plugin, then reinstall the Heateor plugin.
@Frink:disqus I still get those misdirected comments moved to different editorials, any progress on that ?@
Yes, we’re working on it. Please let us know the thread/comment.
@Frink:disqus
Prof, ever since you moved the site here I have been able to log on with my Disqus account but can’t upload any images. You have a good thing here and I want to support it. Any idea what gives?
You won’t be able to upload images here (on a Disqus forum), you’ll be able to upload images here … http://www.internationalfreepress.com (a proper website).
I’m afraid it still isn’t working. I am on http://www.internationalfreepress.com. Is it because I log on with Disqus credentials?
We’re doing some maintenance stuff right now. Try again, please refresh the page.
Well I’ll be a duck’s uncle…!
Refresh, then try it and let me know. Cheers!
Test comment.
As long as I can still input the PONDERS PAGE — it’s all good .
Every thing has been coming up rosy so far .
Good job and WELL DONE to all behind the scene.
Nobody is going to post comments if they have to log in with their facebook account.
That’s the point. You can log in with any one of the 4 platforms.
But many have a Gmail account which bridges to Youtube, Frank.