Comment Count feature to link with Disqus Comments Section

Hi there,

I was wondering if you could help me link the comment count feature on posts to the disqus comments section. Currently it says I have 0 comments and when clicking it doesn’t do anything. I would like it to show the number of comments within Disqus and when clicked go to the comments section?

Regards,
Mark

Hello,

I setup this new plugin and when i click on bullets at the right top of the article, i’m redirected to the comments zone. So it’s ok for this part.

But, always at the top right of the article, bullets have always the count as “0”.

How to have a counter linked with disqus ?

Thanks,
Julien

Make sure you check all your disqus settings on the settings panel on your site; as Disqus *does* write to the comment count field when synced; however it doesn’t seem to work on the author page so you might need to comment that out on the author template.

Been using Disqus with Newspaper for 2 years now, so it *does* work — just need to make sure the settings are correct. Often doing a couple of “sync” operations and letting that “catch up” will work.

It’s not instant. 🙂

Hello and thanks,

This my configuration :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hmmqo701kabjgs7/2015-10-08_11h02_09.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lq6bv4g08ehplvl/2015-10-08_11h03_18.png?dl=0

But in comment box i have well the count :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eesn1vzri94rfxa/2015-10-08_11h03_48.png?dl=0

But not in the article header :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kjr1c3szepqxcxd/2015-10-08_11h04_04.png?dl=0

How do you do “a couple of “sync” operations and letting that “catch up”” ?

Thanks !

Well, note the “sync” button on the Disqus settings tab ?

That is how you “sync” your local site with Disqus — both of those are BUTTONS you need to click to download comments to your own dbase off their server, but also “sync” your data with theirs for I/O … at least that has been the case with my site.

The theme uses the built-in WP comment datafield — meaning, if Disqus/other plugin writes to the WP dbase normally, then the theme can pull from that to get the # of comments. Theme has NO control over the plugin, or the plugin writing to the WP dbase.

Anything in the Disqus box is NOT on the server/site/dbase — it’s loading externally. So, unless the data is getting shared/saved locally, then WP and thus the theme cannot see it. 🙂

If plugin not working right, you’d need to check with the plugin author.

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