Referencing Disqus discussion from EE
How Do I?
Hi,
I’m in the process of (finally) dragging my EE2 site up to date. At present I’m close to a clean EE3 migration, but I’ve hit a hopefully minor roadblock in that I use Disqus for comments (I find casual visitors don’t want to create a login for my site so I stopped using EE comments module). I was using the cx_disqus add-on to sync EE comments with Disqus, but that is deprecated so I’ll have to use Disqus direct.
My question is this: to reference any particular discussion at Disqus, I need to provide the following:
this.page.url = PAGE_URL; // Replace PAGE_URL with your page’s canonical URL variable this.page.identifier = PAGE_IDENTIFIER; // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page’s unique identifier variable
for “this.page.identifier” I can use channel:entries:entry_id, but … I know I’m being stupid … I can’t find any variable in channel:entries which holds the URL (I assume Disqus wants the permalink path without the entry id)
Can anybody give me a clue ?
Thanks!
Thanks, it’s close, but I need the entry ID, not the entry title….
So, <site>/<channel>/<template>/<entry_id>
I’m sure I’ll find a way… 😊
Ah, your first post said Disqus needed it without the entry ID. See if the {entry_id_path} does what you need.
Yes, the Disqus docs are not very clear, it seems that “this.page.identifier” is a variable I can set if I need to. In their video it shows both this and “this.page.url” set to the absolute path of the URL hosting the discussion. Who knows.
I think {entry_id_path} doesn’t give me the template - it will give path/channel/id, not path/channel/article/id. That of course may well be a hole I’ve gotten myself into with over complex structuring, but I have 10 years of archives with that structure.
Anyway thanks for your help, I’m sure I’ll find a way, but unfortunately I need to step away and do some work I’m actually paid for right now 😊