User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2010 December 19 13:00:41 UTC

Disqus integration
I have been playing around more with Disqus integration. Most specifically using the MpDisqus extension. It looks like it is still in beta and does have a few bugs. I would also need to upgrade Mediawiki to 1.16 which I have been meaning to do for a long time. Hopefully I will get a chance to do this over the holidays. I have two problems with this extension. The first one is it throws up a big ugly warning and the second is that it tends to look shit with IE8. I have posted to the PLUG list to see if anyone knows how to fix the warning but really it looks like I should either be learning a little PHP myself or getting (perhaps paying) a PHP developer to help me. If I can get in touch with the developer of the extension that would be good as well. It's getting pretty close to Christmas though and I perhaps think that no one wants to do any PHP work.

Here is the link to the extension I have been playing around with lately.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MpDisqus

I also tried out another one that requires that the extension be called using some wiki markup. Well the only real issue with this of course is that someone could edit the page and remove this text. I could put it in a skin or something like that but when I wouldn't have control over which pages it would display on which the MpDisqus extension does seem to give me.