Blog post comments

ShopWired does not have a built-in feature that allows visitors to place comments on your blog posts. Instead, all ShopWired themes have support for Disqus.

Disqus is a widely used third-party commenting platform used by websites to add commenting sections to their website's content. It allows visitors to engage in discussions, share comments, and offers features such as user authentication, comment moderation, spam filtering, and social sharing options.

• Disqus is easily activated on any ShopWired theme
• Disqus provides a basic, free-to-use plan to enable you to receive comments on your blog posts
• Disqus's basic plan includes: -- Unlimited blog post comments -- Basic reporting and analytics features -- Simple moderation tools -- The ability for visitors to log in to comment through popular platforms such as Facebook, X, and Google

You can create a free Disqus account here.

Activating Disqus on your website

Once you've created a Disqus account, you'll be provided with a unique Disqus URL which will be something like shopwired.disqus.com.

Copy this URL to your device's clipboard and navigate to the theme settings for your blog page (how you navigate to the settings for your blog page depends on the theme you are using). Read more about customising themes.

In ShopWired Version 5 themes, use the live preview in the theme editor to navigate to a blog post page on your website. The Disqus URL can be entered into Page settings > Sharing & comments.

Paste your unique Disqus identifier into the setting provided and save your changes.

Ensure that you only paste your unique identifier, e.g. shopwired, and not the full URL, e.g. shopwired.disqus.com.

Once Disqus is activated, the commenting box will be available on every blog post as shown in the example below.

The appearance of the commenting box is customised through your Disqus account.

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