Disqus WordPress Plugin

Local Testing

There's a Docker configuration to bootstrap a local WordPress installation. To start it:

• You'll need both Docker and yarn installed on your local machine.
• From the root directory, run $ yarn to install the frontend dependencies.
• Once that's done, run $ make run to build the docker image.
• Install wordpress with the default values by running $ make install.
• Activate the Disqus plugin using $ make activate.
• Alternatively you can now complete configuration by going to: http://localhost:8888/wp-admin/install.php
• Otherwise you can continue to: http://localhost:8888/

Unit tests

To run unit tests locally:

• Install Composer, yarn and MySQL.
• From the root project directory, run $ yarn, $ composer install and $ composer global require "phpunit/phpunit=4.8.*" (You may change the version to 6.* if you're running PHP >= 7.0).
• To create the WordPress test instance, run $ bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root '' localhost latest
• You should now be able to run $ make test to run both the PHPUnit tests and the frontend JavaScript tests.

Installing to existing WordPress site

To install the plugin on an existing WordPress site, you'll need to build the frontend and create a .zip file:

• Make sure you have yarn installed on your local machine.
• From the root directory, run $ make dist.
• From your WordPress plugin page, select Plugins->Add New->Upload Plugin and choose the disqus.zip file you created.
• Activate the plugin and then install using the instructions in the plugin.

Custom Filters

dsq_can_load

You can override when Disqus loads on a certain page using the dsq_can_load filter. By default Disqus won't load scripts on:

• On RSS feed pages
• If the shortname is missing from the configuration

Additionally Disqus will not load the embed.js script:

• On pages that are not 'post' or 'page' types
• Posts or pages that have comment turned off
• Draft posts

The filter will pass one argument, the $script_name enumeration, which can be:

• 'count' — The count.js script file for showing comment counts next to a link
• 'embed' — The commenting embed.js file

In this example, you can add a filter which disables the comment count script, while still allowing the comments embed to load:

function filter_dsq_can_load( $script_name ) {
    // $script_name is either 'count' or 'embed'.
	if ( 'count' === $script_name ) {
		return false;
	}

	return true;
}
add_filter( 'dsq_can_load', 'filter_dsq_can_load' );