How to add Disqus to any Squarespace Blog or Journal

Brandon Davenport Aug 14, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us How to, Okay Geek, Websites

This morning I was noticing that although squarespace's commenting system is stable and works very well, it is very bear bones. As a small company T3ch H3lp needed to reach out to a bigger audience so we did, and it took 15 mins, or in your case (with this tutorial) 5 minuets.

First you need to grab a Disqus account. They are free and easy to obtain.

Get one here and after you sign up, come back here immediately for the next step

Next

You have to add a blog. Fill it out like I did.

Then, once you are done that, go here or, login and head over to the "ADMIN" page, at the top right.

Go to settings, and fill out all the info that goes into the boxes, like "Website name" and "Twitter account"

Then mess around with the other settings. when you are done come back here for the next step to integrate Disqus into your squarespace blog.

Next

Head over tothe Disqus Wiki and come back hereimmediatelyfor more detailed instructions.

http://wiki.disqus.net/SquarespaceHelp

Next you have to

• First you have to login to your Squarespace site and go to your blog page.
• Then go into "Structure editing mode"
• The scroll down to "edit website footer"
• Copy and paste the code from the Disqus Wiki into the window for editing your footer.
• Then hit "Ctrl + F" on you keyboard to find acertainpeice of code
• type in "_YOURSHORTNAME_" into the box you just popped up
• it will find the twopiecesof code you have to change.
• Change "_YOURSHORTNAME_" to this:

go to your admin control panel on the Disqus page and click settings. Click "expand settings", and then look for "Community Homepage". Copy and paste that url into notepad or something you can remember with.

Eg: yoursite.disqus.com

Take that and get rid of the ".disqus.com" so you will just have "yoursite".

Now change "_YOURSHORTNAME_" in the code to "yoursite" or whatever you set yours as. I set mine to t3ch h3lp.

Now save the footer and check out your posts. They should have the Disqus comment module at the bottom now.

If you need more help leave a comment!