Comments on: Replacing the default WordPress Comment System with Disqus

By: Sunil J

Sunil J — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:17:39 +0000

I have been using disqus for a while now, it makes following up on comments quite easy. My only problem is with spam. Spammers don’t come to the website directly and post the comments via diqus, but uses the default commenting system. I may have fixed it by requiring users to register to comment via default commenting system, which a normal user won’t see.
I haven’t had much problem with speed. Latest test at tools.pingdom.com shows load time to be less than 4 second.

By: Cecilia

Cecilia — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:53:50 +0000

I have switched to Disqus for a while and now I am thinking to switch back. The reason I use Disqus is because of the plugin Subscribe to Comments was slowing my site load time, which affect my points with Google. That’s not a good thing. With Disqus I was able to get rid of all these plugins. I haven’t have any issue with spam from Disqus, but for some reason the spam was able to get thru to my original wordpress comment. I am in the process of trying to stop the pingback spam. The only problem I have with Disqus right now, is that I can’t do single sign on with my forum. My comments are getting very confusing as people keep on asking the same questions, and it lacks a seach capability. Some of my articles gets 50+ comments and still growing. It is very difficult to find anything there. So I decided to sync them with phpBB forum. With Disque, I am not able to do so.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:35:01 +0000

I prefer the regular WordPress comments since I heard Disqus slows your site down.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:47:36 +0000

@Dave T The best way to stop spam with WordPress is to use their Akismet spam service to filter comments before they make it onto your blog or website. You can also adjust your comment settings to more effectively prevent spam (such as limiting the number of outgoing links in comments, etc.).

As for crashing your server, many times this can be caused by a high amount of plugins or extra modules installed on your blog that can bring the server down (especially any commenting plugins, or other user plugins that cause heavy loads).

By: Dave T

Dave T — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:19:31 +0000

Does comment tracker really work well?

I had to turn off comments on my blog, due to the amount of bots coming to spam was causing my server to crash, already a high traffic blog, but the bots were crazy.

I really want to put comments back on (for obvious reasons) but without someway of stopping them it will just crash my server again. Anyone any clever ideas?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:51:31 +0000

Thank you for the informative post. I run blogs myself and will have to add the akismet plugin to my site.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:49:09 +0000

@Justin Wright yes, I have gone back to the default WordPress comment system as well. There were just too many problems with Disqus (and all the spam!) to keep it on the site any longer.

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:13:53 +0000

Are you no longer using Disqus? I’ve tried it on a few blogs and have always ended up going back to the default comment system.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:29:13 +0000

Unfortunately from what I understand there is no way to selectively disable disqus comments on a per page basis. I have recently switched back to the default wordpress comments system, as I was having too many problems with Disqus (mostly spam comments and a lack of filtering).

By: dave

dave — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:01:41 +0000

great post
tricky question.
is there a way to disable the disqus comment system on a specific page AND bring back the default wordpress comment system (ONLY on that specific page)
?

cheers,