Tweaking: Nested Comments with Disqus

Feb 27, 2011 | Blogging | 19 comments


How’s your weekend going?  My brother and his mate have been visiting again over the past week so things have been a bit more hectic than normal and of course, I’ve not been able to get to some of the little projects that my evenings and weekends are made for!  They are off to travel around Continental Europe tomorrow (jammy gits) so things will return to normal soon in the Swoon Worthy household.

In the meantime, I just wanted to let you know about a little tweak I have just made to the ol’ blog.

Now, as you may know, I do love it when my readers give me some comment luvvin’.  To be honest, part of the reason I started this blog was because I can’t really talk about interiors to the extent I would like to with my RL family and friends.  Oh, they will humour me for a brief, polite moment but I can see their eyes start to glaze over slowly as they begin to lose interest.  I needed to find like-minded people, obsessed with interiors and interior blogs, people that will quite happily discuss pattern and colour and texture and OMG did you see Jennifer Lopez’s bedroom, etc etc…  Do you find this too?  Please tell me it’s not just me.

OMG. Jennifer Lopez’ bedroom.  
I love that you care even when no one else does.

Now, as much as I love Blogger, I didn’t like the fact that I couldn’t reply individually to comments.

And I do like to respond to comments because it creates more of a community and I like the idea of discussions – it just helps me get to know my readers that little bit better.  I want people to know that I appreciate them taking the time to say, ‘Hey I’m here! You aren’t talking into the ether!  There’s someone out here and it’s me!’  It makes my little heart sing.

So I have just installed Disqus (pronounced ‘discuss’ rather than ‘dis-kiss’ as I’d been doing! Numpty.) which allows for nested comments.  So far so good – it works with a number of different blogging platforms and allows you at the push of a button to import all your previous comments from Blogger.  So far, there doesn’t seem to be any glitches.  Installation was pretty easy, too – it was just like installing a regular widget.

For commenters, it allows you to log in via your Facebook, Twitter, Google, email/username or just Anonymous to comment and will carry your avatar so I can see your gorgeous faces!

Hope you like the new feature as much as I do!  However, if you do find any problems with the new commenting style, can you let me know? It would be most graciously appreciated.

In the meantime, I do hope you are having a wonderful weekend.  It’s amazing how quickly our alcohol is disappearing so I’m off to make myself a drink before it’s all gone! ;-)

Images from here and here.


19 Comments

  1. Sarah Gibbs on February 27, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    Yes I know how you feel about chatting about interiors, its my job but i love it obsessively & my friends are interested to an extent but dont quite have my passion so blogging is great to find like minded peeps. I shall have a little go at installing disqus surely it cant be toooo hard!!!!

  2. American in Bath on February 27, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    I'm interested to see how you find Disqus as time goes on!

  3. Redlilocks on February 27, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    Good to know I&#39;m not the only one ;)<br /><br />It was very simple – I did panic for a second thinking I&#39;d lost all my comments when I first installed it but once I realised I needed to import them, they reappeared. Whew.

  4. Redlilocks on February 27, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    I&#39;ll let you know! So far, so good :)

  5. Dear Designer on February 28, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    I think maybe we all start blogging to fullfil that geeky need to talk design. And the fact that we continue to blog means it must work! I&#39;m not familiar with Disqus but I&#39;ll give it a go.

  6. Michele on February 28, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    i will check out disqus. it IS fun to find other souls with a need to obsess about wallpaper and the right shade of grey. the other thing i appreciate about what you&#39;ve said here is it seems you&#39;re not looking to gain 50,000 fans, right? you&#39;d prefer some quality chat with real people who have some similar interests. maybe i&#39;m projecting, but this is what i&#39;ve discovered about

  7. Meera @ firstsense on February 28, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    &quot;jammy gits&quot; – very English! ;)

  8. Redlilocks on February 28, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    Hahaha! I have done EXACTLY the same thing! Or I&#39;ll suddenly say, &#39;Oh my god!&#39; and W will go, &#39;what?! what?!&#39; thinking he&#39;s missed something in the storyline and I&#39;ll reply, &#39;LOOK AT THAT CHANDELIER!&#39; So nice to find other people who are as geeky as me ;)<br /><br />PS The English have such good expressions, it would be rude not to use them! xxx

  9. Redlilocks on February 28, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    I think you are spot on, Michele. I couldn&#39;t imagine having a blog like some I read where they buy a new cushion and get 400 comments in response. Surely you must lose that personal engagement when you acheive that &#39;celebrity blogger&#39; status? That&#39;s certainly not what I&#39;m after, not by a long shot.<br /><br />I know I have quite a lot of shy readers and that&#39;s okay too

  10. Redlilocks on February 28, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    &quot;Geeky need to talk design&quot; – hahaha! (I&#39;ve always said I was a geek!) Glad to hear I&#39;m not alone in this, Carole!<br /><br />If you do decide to try it, let me know how you get on! I&#39;m still getting used to it!

  11. Modern Country Style on February 28, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    I&#39;m intrigued by your new fancypants sytem. ;-)<br /><br />I was the same with LOVING all these people that love talking about the same things as me. I have a deal with my husband where I get to talk about what I want and then he gets a turn to talk about what he wants!!!<br /><br />Sarahx

  12. Inspiremyhousepretty on March 1, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    ha thats why is started my blog really, not really a conversation go&#39;er with my friends lol…..

  13. Sarah Gibbs on March 1, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    Haha I dated a portugesse guy a few years back &amp; he found my little English sayings funny, I dont really do the whole cockney slang thing maybe the odd phrase being that Im a country girl &amp; live between Cambridge &amp; Newmarket!! some cockney phrases throw me &amp; Im a Brit.

  14. Double Glazing on April 22, 2011 at 5:10 am

    It&#39;s nice to have that kind of room. I always wanted to have that kind of home. I&#39;d loved to see more photos. Nice article. Thank you!

  15. Kitchen on April 28, 2011 at 9:44 am

    I also love the living room photos. Blogging/discussion is only things where we can communicate with every person and i am thinking that you should have to give respond to all the users who comment on your blog.

  16. Double Glazing Sutton Coldfield on May 10, 2011 at 11:22 am

    Thank you for sharing this posts. I would love to have the design of Jennifer Lopez&#39; bedroom. I wonder how much will I spend in renovating my room.

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  18. web design company on July 27, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    I was the same with LOVING all these people that love talking about the same things as me.Thank you for sharing this posts.

  19. web Design London on December 19, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    I read where they buy a new cushion and get 400 comments in response.

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