{"id":5727,"date":"2011-05-19T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T02:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2011-05-23T05:28:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:28:44","slug":"switched-to-disqus-as-a-comments-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2011\/05\/19\/switched-to-disqus-as-a-comments-package\/","title":{"rendered":"Tried Disqus, ended up turning it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Disqus made my site slow and was doing some strange things that I could not explain, so I turned it off. I&#8217;ve reverted to the old standard WordPress commenting system. Note some people have feared Disqus could hurt search engine optimization because it hides all your comments behind Javascript; jury&#8217;s still out on this, as far as I know. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/disqus-logo.gif\" alt=\"Disqus logo\" title=\"disqus-logo\" width=\"155\" height=\"63\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/disqus-logo.gif 155w, https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/disqus-logo-100x40.gif 100w, https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/disqus-logo-110x44.gif 110w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/\">Disqus<\/a> makes it much easier to have threaded conversations, and it allows cool things like responding to a comment from within e-mail. Unfortunately it also means that some of you who&#8217;ve logged in before will have to log in again, but I&#8217;m thinking that should not prove fatally difficult. <\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you have any issues and I&#8217;ll what I can do to address them. Everybody&#8217;s comments have to be imported into the Disqus system, which might take a few days, I&#8217;m told. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Disqus made my site slow and was doing some strange things that I could not explain, so I turned it off. I&#8217;ve reverted to the old standard WordPress commenting system. Note some people have feared Disqus could hurt search&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2011\/05\/19\/switched-to-disqus-as-a-comments-package\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}