Disqus comments went missing after changing url-appendix

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I am using Disqus for comments on each product page.

Whenever I change the product page name (and its url-appendix), the Disqus comments field on that page reset itself. The comments already collected on that page are not displayed anymore.

I suspect the Disqus comments were linked to my old url-appendix.

Is there a way to let the Disqus comments be linked to something different, like some sort of self-generated unique page number?

2

How have you embedded the comments?

There used to be an old Disqus snippet for Kirby 1, where you could set an identifier other than the page slug, so I would suppose you can use a self-generated unique page identifier.

3

This is the snippet Iā€™m using now:

<?php

// set the defaults
if(!isset($disqus_shortname))  die('Please pass the disqus shortname');
if(!isset($disqus_title))      $disqus_title = $page->title();
if(!isset($disqus_developer))  $disqus_developer = false;
if(!isset($disqus_identifier)) $disqus_identifier = $page->uri();
if(!isset($disqus_url))        $disqus_url = thisURL();

$disqus_title     = addcslashes($disqus_title, "'");
$disqus_developer = ($disqus_developer) ? 'true' : 'false';

?>
<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var disqus_shortname  = '<?php echo $disqus_shortname ?>'; // required: replace example with your forum shortname
  var disqus_title      = '<?php echo html($disqus_title) ?>';
  var disqus_developer  = '<?php echo $disqus_developer ?>'; // developer mode
  var disqus_identifier = '<?php echo $disqus_identifier ?>';
  var disqus_url        = '<?php echo $disqus_url ?>';

  (function() {
    var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
    dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
    (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
  })();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
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Can you point me to the snippet where I can set an identifier other then the page slug? That would be great!

4

When you include the snippet, you can pass the variables as needed:

<?php snippet('disqus', array('disqus_identifier' => $page->yourIdentifier())) ?>
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5

Thank you! The AutoID Plugin plus your snippet suggestion should solve my problem! :smile:

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