Configuring the DisQus Comments extension for Joomla!

Allowing your visitors to comment on your website is a good way to encourage a community for your website to grow and allows visitors to contribute their own thoughts to your content. DisQus (http://disqus.com) is a popular third-party comment management system that can be integrated with any content platform.

Getting ready

1. 1. You will need to install the DisQus Comments extension for Joomla!, which is available from Joomla!'s official extension repository at http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/contacts-and-feedback/articles-comments/5259:

   

2. 2. Once installed, you should see the Install Plugin Success message and further information about the plugin.

How to do it...

1. 1. You can customize the appearance of this plugin (using template overrides) by moving the files located in the \plugins\content\jw_disqus\tmp directory to the templates\rhuk_milkyway\html\jw_disqus directory, where rhuk_milkyway is the name of your Joomla! template...