- Download the Disqus Drupal module. Upload the Disqus module to your site's modules directory in sites/all/modules Visit Administer Site building Modules and enable the module. Visit Administer Site configuration Disqus.
- Drupal 9 is here: the easiest to use, most powerful version yet. Built by the world's best open source community.
- How to Add Disqus Comments to Drupal 8 While Drupal comes with its own comment system, many users prefer to use Disqus as a centralized comment platform. Adding Disqus to Drupal 8 is a simple process. I'm going to show you how to install the module, create a Disqus account, and hide Drupal's default comments.
- I'm using Drupal 7.38 with the Disqus (version 7.x-1.12) module. Disqus simply fails to load. No trace of it in the console, elements or sources. Disqus visibility is set to appear in block as.
I'm using Drupal 7.38 with the Disqus (version 7.x-1.12) module. Disqus simply fails to load. No trace of it in the console, elements or sources. Disqus visibility is set to appear in block as.
Getting started
Disqus has many integrations available which make installation easy. The most popular integrations also come with built-in importing and syncing tools so you can bring in your old comments as well. Before installing, make sure you've registered a Disqus shortname, and this will be used to reference all of your comments and settings.
WordPress
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You can export your old comments from WordPress and import them into Disqus, or sync comments made in Disqus back to WordPress
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Blogger
Installation
Importing and syncing
We're currently unable to support import and syncing functionality for Blogger. We recognize that syncing and import functionality is an important feature for many Blogger blogs and we apologize for any pains this disruption in service may cause. We want publishers to have a great experience and hope to restore import and syncing services to Blogger in the future.
Learn more about exporting for backup purposes
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Drupal Disqus Login
Tumblr
Installation
Tumblr theme-supported installations
If the theme author included Disqus integration, this is how you'd enable it.
Tumblr manual installation
Drupal Discussion Board
Not every theme includes Disqus or integrated it correctly. This is a guide on manual installation.
Troubleshooting
Tumblr Troubleshooting
Typepad
Installation
Typepad installation instructions
Importing
Importing Typepad comments
Movable Type
Installation
MovableType plugin integration
Drupal
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Drupal plugin integration
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Joomla, Squarespace, and other managed integrations
Integrations that are managed for their platforms as plugins or widgets.
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Wordpress Disqus Plugin
Developer integrations
How to customize your Disqus integration on the web, add to mobile apps and more.
Drupal Disqus Form
Developer integration guide
With all the excitement about decoupled Drupal over the past several years, I wanted to take a moment to articulate a few specific factors that make headless a good approach for a project – as well as a few that don't. Quick disclaimer: this is definitely an oversimplification of an otherwise complex subject, and is based entirely on our experience here at Aten. Others will draw different conclusions, and that's great. In fact, the diversity of perspectives and conclusions about use cases for headless underscores just how incredibly flexible Drupal is. So here's our take.
First, What is Decoupled?
I'll keep this real short: decoupled (or headless) Drupal basically means using Drupal for backend content management, and using a separate framework (Angular, React, etc.) for delivering the front-end experience. It completely decouples content presentation (the head) from content management (the body), thus 'headless'. There are tons of resources about this already, and I couldn't come close to covering it as well as others already have. See Related Reading at the end of this post for more info.
Decoupled and Progressively Decoupled
For the purpose of this post, Decoupled Drupal means any Drupal backend that uses a separate technology stack for the front-end. Again, there's lots of great material on the difference between 'decoupled' and 'progressively decoupled'. In this post, just pretend they mean the same thing. You can definitely build a decoupled app on top of your traditional Drupal stack, and there are often good reasons to do exactly that.
Why Decoupled?
Decoupled Drupal provides massive flexibility for designing and developing websites, web apps, native apps and other digital products. With the decoupled approach, designers and front-end developers can conspire to build whatever experience they wish, virtually without limitation. It's great for progressive web apps, where animations, screen transitions and interactivity are particularly important. Decoupled is all but necessary for native apps, where content is typically managed on a centralized server and published via an API to instances of the app running on people's devices. In recent years, Decoupled Drupal has gained popularity even for more 'traditional' websites, again primarily because of the flexibility it provides.
Pros and Cons
I'm not going to list pros and cons per se. Other articles do that. I'm more interested in looking at the specific reasons we've chosen to leverage a decoupled approach for some projects, and the reasons we've chosen not to for others. I'm going to share our perspective about when to go decoupled, and when not to go decoupled.
When to Decouple
Here are a few key questions we typically ask when evaluating a project as a fit for Decoupled Drupal:
- Do you have separate backend and front-end development resources?Because decoupled means building a completely separate backend (Drupal) from front-end (Angular, React, etc.), you will need a team capable of building and maintaining both. Whether it's in-house, freelance or agency support, Decoupled Drupal usually requires two different development teams collaborating together to be successful. Organizations with both front-end devs and backend devs typically check 'yes' on this one. Organizations with a few generalist developers, site builders or web admin folks should pause and think seriously about whether or not they have the right people in place to support a decoupled project.
- Are you building a native app and want to use Drupal to manage your content, data, users, etc.? If yes, we're almost certainly talking decoupled. See 'Why Decoupled?' above.
- Do you envision publishing content or data across multiple products or platforms? Example: we recently built an education product that serves both teachers and their early childhood students. We needed a classroom management app for the former, and an 'activity explorer' with links to interactive games for the latter. Multiple products pulling from a single backend is often a good fit for decoupled.
- Is interactivity itself a primary concern? There are plenty of cases where the traditional web experience – click a link, load a new page – just doesn't do justice. Interactive data visualizations and maps are great examples. If your digital project requires app-like interaction with transitions, animations, and complex user flows, you will likely benefit from an expressive front-end framework like Ember or Angular. In those cases, decoupled is often a great fit.
- Does working around Drupal's rich feature set and interface create more work in the long run? Drupal ships with a ton of built-in features for managing and viewing content: node edit screens, tabs, subtabs, node view pages, admin screens, and on and on. Sometimes you just don't need all of that. For some applications, working around Drupal's default screens is more work than building something custom. In some cases, you may want to take advantage of Drupal's flexible content model to store content, but need a completely different interface for adding and managing that content. Consider evites as a hypothetical example. The underlying content structure could map nicely to nodes or custom entities in Drupal. The process for creating an invitation, customizing it, adding recipients, previewing and sending, however, is something else altogether. Decoupled Drupal would allow you to build a front-end experience (customizing your invitation) exactly as you need it, while storing the actual content (the invite) and handling business logic (saving, sending, etc.) in Drupal.
- Do you want the hottest technology? Sometimes it's important to be at the cutting edge. We respect that 100%. Decoupled Drupal provides incredible flexibility and empowers teams to build rich, beautiful experiences with very few limitations. Further, it allows (virtually requires) your teams – both front-end and backend – to work with the very latest development tools and frameworks.
When Not to Decouple
Conversely, here are a few key questions we ask that might rule out Decoupled Drupal for a project:
Troubleshooting
The WordPress community is a great place for answers for things Disqus is unable to assist with.
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Blogger
Installation
Importing and syncing
We're currently unable to support import and syncing functionality for Blogger. We recognize that syncing and import functionality is an important feature for many Blogger blogs and we apologize for any pains this disruption in service may cause. We want publishers to have a great experience and hope to restore import and syncing services to Blogger in the future.
Learn more about exporting for backup purposes
Importing comments from Blogger to Disqus
Syncing with Blogger
Troubleshooting
Drupal Disqus Login
Tumblr
Installation
Tumblr theme-supported installations
If the theme author included Disqus integration, this is how you'd enable it.
Tumblr manual installation
Drupal Discussion Board
Not every theme includes Disqus or integrated it correctly. This is a guide on manual installation.
Troubleshooting
Tumblr Troubleshooting
Typepad
Installation
Typepad installation instructions
Importing
Importing Typepad comments
Movable Type
Installation
MovableType plugin integration
Drupal
Installation
Drupal plugin integration
More integrations
Joomla, Squarespace, and other managed integrations
Integrations that are managed for their platforms as plugins or widgets.
All available integrations
Wordpress Disqus Plugin
Developer integrations
How to customize your Disqus integration on the web, add to mobile apps and more.
Drupal Disqus Form
Developer integration guide
With all the excitement about decoupled Drupal over the past several years, I wanted to take a moment to articulate a few specific factors that make headless a good approach for a project – as well as a few that don't. Quick disclaimer: this is definitely an oversimplification of an otherwise complex subject, and is based entirely on our experience here at Aten. Others will draw different conclusions, and that's great. In fact, the diversity of perspectives and conclusions about use cases for headless underscores just how incredibly flexible Drupal is. So here's our take.
First, What is Decoupled?
I'll keep this real short: decoupled (or headless) Drupal basically means using Drupal for backend content management, and using a separate framework (Angular, React, etc.) for delivering the front-end experience. It completely decouples content presentation (the head) from content management (the body), thus 'headless'. There are tons of resources about this already, and I couldn't come close to covering it as well as others already have. See Related Reading at the end of this post for more info.
Decoupled and Progressively Decoupled
For the purpose of this post, Decoupled Drupal means any Drupal backend that uses a separate technology stack for the front-end. Again, there's lots of great material on the difference between 'decoupled' and 'progressively decoupled'. In this post, just pretend they mean the same thing. You can definitely build a decoupled app on top of your traditional Drupal stack, and there are often good reasons to do exactly that.
Why Decoupled?
Decoupled Drupal provides massive flexibility for designing and developing websites, web apps, native apps and other digital products. With the decoupled approach, designers and front-end developers can conspire to build whatever experience they wish, virtually without limitation. It's great for progressive web apps, where animations, screen transitions and interactivity are particularly important. Decoupled is all but necessary for native apps, where content is typically managed on a centralized server and published via an API to instances of the app running on people's devices. In recent years, Decoupled Drupal has gained popularity even for more 'traditional' websites, again primarily because of the flexibility it provides.
Pros and Cons
I'm not going to list pros and cons per se. Other articles do that. I'm more interested in looking at the specific reasons we've chosen to leverage a decoupled approach for some projects, and the reasons we've chosen not to for others. I'm going to share our perspective about when to go decoupled, and when not to go decoupled.
When to Decouple
Here are a few key questions we typically ask when evaluating a project as a fit for Decoupled Drupal:
- Do you have separate backend and front-end development resources?Because decoupled means building a completely separate backend (Drupal) from front-end (Angular, React, etc.), you will need a team capable of building and maintaining both. Whether it's in-house, freelance or agency support, Decoupled Drupal usually requires two different development teams collaborating together to be successful. Organizations with both front-end devs and backend devs typically check 'yes' on this one. Organizations with a few generalist developers, site builders or web admin folks should pause and think seriously about whether or not they have the right people in place to support a decoupled project.
- Are you building a native app and want to use Drupal to manage your content, data, users, etc.? If yes, we're almost certainly talking decoupled. See 'Why Decoupled?' above.
- Do you envision publishing content or data across multiple products or platforms? Example: we recently built an education product that serves both teachers and their early childhood students. We needed a classroom management app for the former, and an 'activity explorer' with links to interactive games for the latter. Multiple products pulling from a single backend is often a good fit for decoupled.
- Is interactivity itself a primary concern? There are plenty of cases where the traditional web experience – click a link, load a new page – just doesn't do justice. Interactive data visualizations and maps are great examples. If your digital project requires app-like interaction with transitions, animations, and complex user flows, you will likely benefit from an expressive front-end framework like Ember or Angular. In those cases, decoupled is often a great fit.
- Does working around Drupal's rich feature set and interface create more work in the long run? Drupal ships with a ton of built-in features for managing and viewing content: node edit screens, tabs, subtabs, node view pages, admin screens, and on and on. Sometimes you just don't need all of that. For some applications, working around Drupal's default screens is more work than building something custom. In some cases, you may want to take advantage of Drupal's flexible content model to store content, but need a completely different interface for adding and managing that content. Consider evites as a hypothetical example. The underlying content structure could map nicely to nodes or custom entities in Drupal. The process for creating an invitation, customizing it, adding recipients, previewing and sending, however, is something else altogether. Decoupled Drupal would allow you to build a front-end experience (customizing your invitation) exactly as you need it, while storing the actual content (the invite) and handling business logic (saving, sending, etc.) in Drupal.
- Do you want the hottest technology? Sometimes it's important to be at the cutting edge. We respect that 100%. Decoupled Drupal provides incredible flexibility and empowers teams to build rich, beautiful experiences with very few limitations. Further, it allows (virtually requires) your teams – both front-end and backend – to work with the very latest development tools and frameworks.
When Not to Decouple
Conversely, here are a few key questions we ask that might rule out Decoupled Drupal for a project:
- First, take another look at the list above. If you answered 'no' to all of them, Decoupled Drupal might not be a great fit for your project. Still not sure? Great, carry on..
- Are you hoping to 'turn on' features in Drupal and use them more-or-less as-is? One of the major draws for Drupal is the massive ecosystem of free modules available from the open source community. Need Disqus comments on your blog? Simply install the Disqus Drupal module and turn it on. How about a Google Map on your contact page? Check out the Simple Google Maps module. Want to make a slideshow from a list of images? No problem: there are modulesfor that, too. With Decoupled Drupal, the ability to simply 'turn-on' front-end functionality goes away, since Drupal is no longer directly managing your website front-end.
- Do your front-end requirements match Drupal's front-end capabilities out-of-the-box? We work with a number of research and publishing organizations whose design goals closely align with Drupal's capabilities. I'm hard pressed to recommend a decoupled approach in those cases, absent some other strong driver (see above).
Related Reading
- How to decouple Drupal in 2019 from dri.es
- A How-to Guide to Headless and Decoupled CMS from acquia.com
- Headless Drupal from dri.es
