Introducing IntenseDebate Plugins: add the features you want!
We’re extremely excited to introduce you to the future of commenting – today we launch IntenseDebate Plugins! We’re opening our doors and making our code available so you can build your own plugins!
We’re kicking it off in style by launching a few plugins of our own to demonstrate the possibilities:
PollDaddy: We love our fellow Automattic company and you should too! Enable our PollDaddy plugin and your readers will be able to create polls right in the comment section. Many thanks to Eoin and Lenny (the real PollDaddy’s) for their help!
Seesmic: We’re excited to be working with the Seesmic crew to provide video comments. Enable our Seesmic plugin and give your readers the ability to record and post video comments.
YouTube: This one was developed by our very own code maestro Jon Fox (the man behind IntenseDebate). Enabling our YouTube plugin provides your commenters with the option to insert their favorite YouTube vids.
Smileys: Hats off to Isaac and Austin on this one. It’s all about self-expression. Add in a 😉 and let everyone know that you’re just being sarcastic and not mean!
So all of you developers and IntenseDebate enthusiasts our there, we welcome you to flex your coding muscles to help shape
IntenseDebate to be the comment system that meets all of your needs. For more information about writing a plugin see our Plugin Resources.
So what does this mean?
There is a brand spanking new Plugins tab in your IntenseDebate dashboard that lists the current plugins available. To activate a plugin just select “Activate” next to the plugin when you are logged into your account. Check out the comment section on your blog and you’ll find a plugin icon at the top right of the comment box. To use the plugin just select the icon and you’ll be ready to roll.
For more information check out our Plugins video and enjoy the soothing voice of our esteemed colleague, Michael Pick. We’d love it if you helped spread the word, so please grab the embed code and publish a post about our sweet new plugins!
Kudos to Jon, Isaac, Austin, MT, Michael Pick, Eoin, Lenny, and the Seesmic team for all of the help!
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Very cool 😀
whoa, wait! AWESOME!
BEST EVER!
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Okay, this could be good.
This could be very good.
Nice idea, but for some reason, activating any of these plugins generates errors on my site and break IntenseDebate.
What web browser are you using? Is this on http://reclaimercomic.com? Please reactivate them so we can check it out.
It is. It happened on both Firefox 3.0.x and IE7. I've reactivated the smilies plugin.
What web browser are you using?
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The "post a video comment" line should be replaced by a button and the words "video comment", the small text is too easy to miss.
Impressed that Seesmic allows anonymous video comments to be left, that's a big plus because not everyone will be willing to sign up to yet another online service.
Neat! I especially like the Poll and Smiley ones. I've long wondered why IntenseDebate wouldn't convert my emoticons into graphics…
I saw it coming! LOL
Thanks for the feedback. Chatting about it with the team now. 🙂
ZOMG! This is exactly what this post was missing!
I'm not seeing any plugins activated. Can you link me?
http://reclaimercomic.com/2009/03/161-indigenous-…
I have the Smilies plugin active for the site in my IntenseDebate dashboard, but it breaks somehow by the time it gets to my site. Breaks the javascript, logs me out, and none of the buttons work.
We're on it!
Jim, give it a try now please. Thanks for your patience.
Класс! ^_^
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Ah finally they are out. Way to go with overshadowing the Mashable Disqus announcment guys xD
I only hope that you didn't rush them and they are stable 🙂
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Very nice release. Congratulations.
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Congrats, that will make me think twice about leaving IntenseDebate as well. Looking into it right now.
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Unofrtunately they don't seem to work very well for me. Look at this post: http://dbzer0.com/blog/all-your-comments-are-belo…
Smilies are not parsed, I'm not getting logged in and the post-reply button has stopped working
You're all set now!
Just responded to your GS post. We're troubleshooting a conflict with Prototype JavaScript library. It'll be fixed shortly.
Seeing as how the WordPress plugins are structured, I'm guessing the IDC guys will be quite open to them. Allowing personal javascripts to work with IDC would be a good idea though.
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Very nicely done! thanx! ^_^
Very very very good idea guys. This opens up so many possibilities and enables the community to add whatever features they can code to Intense Debate. Color me excited :):p
[seesmic bTbI4R8w0D|xImFo167Mt_th1.jpg http://www.seesmic.com/video/bTbI4R8w0D seesmic]
[seesmic RkoGB4917Z|jpQw6YHAMp_th1.jpg http://www.seesmic.com/video/RkoGB4917Z seesmic]
Testing. ignore.B)
That was wicked fast 🙂
Yep, that gets it done. Thanks, Michael. 🙂
Glad to hear it!
1.) Pretty close, but not quite yet. We're working towards this goal. Right now you can apply filters to the comment text as it's being submitted or when it's output as well as a few other filters, and then hook into a wide variety of actions. We've got quite a bit now, but this will be expanding with time and the requests of developers. The idea of plugins, though, is to open it up to developers, so there's not a lot of reason for us to cripple it.
2.) I think this could probably be done w/ the current plugin API, but if not and someone wants to develop this but needs some new actions/filters please let us know and we'll do what we can.
3.) We do review the plugins that we put in the directory. This is primarily for distribution to others though. If you want to have custom plugin code on only your blog you can by using the plugin editor (available here: http://intensedebate.com/pluginEditor )
4.) This will vary, but I'm hoping to keep it pretty low. A few days is the target, but obviously this will depend on volume, the complexity of the plugin, etc.
5.) We reserve the right to reject plugins from being added to the directory. This is primarily to prevent malicious / misleading plugins. We've opened this platform up with the goal of our community expanding our platform, so we don't plan to reject plugins arbitrarily. If we do reject the plugin, however, you can always add a plugin via the plugin editor or by adding the JS to the blog directly.
6.) These plugins were provided as examples of what can be done with the plugin API. There are no exclusive deals here and we welcome alternatives.
And yes, the last item could also theoretically be done with plugins if any of you are feeling ambitious 😉
Jon, thank you for taking the time to answer all my questions but, even more than that, thank you for having the vision and the balls to create such an open system.
If developers leap upon this opportunity, and it seems that you guys are doing nothing to discourage them, this is going to be an absolute game-changer.
Here's hoping that IntenseDebate and it's plugin platform finds it's way into WordPress.com too!
WHOOAAAAAAAA, EXCELLENT NEWS!!!
So… how about a poll?
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Really nice move guys. I happily take back what I've previously said about your slow rate of evolution and innovation.
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That just made my day.
Michael, having loading issues with Firefox and the new features.
Seems like it starts loading, and them blam, it stops and just shows text (no videos, polls, etc)
http://grassrootspa.com/?p=23863#IDComment1626178…
Heads up…
Yepper, this happens when using the recent comments to click on a specific comment. Don't think it happens when clicking general thread,
Ok, so it's still usable. We'll take a look at the widget issue. Thanks for letting us know about this.
Well, unusable is a bit strong. Works GREAT in IE and Chrome.
This issue only takes place when trying to jump to a SPECIFIC comment in Firefox (a la Recent Comments widget)
Again, Cheers for all you do!!! 😀
Oops…didn't mean to delete that. This should be fixed now. Let me know. 🙂
Hmmm…. loaded alright for me. Does it happen consistently?
Yeah, every single time in Firefox.
Same thing here:
http://grassrootspa.com/?p=23819#IDComment1626304…
The Porky Pig video loads a bit, then breaks down to this:
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Yeah, every single time in Firebox Same thing here:
http://grassrootspa.com/?p=23819#IDComment1626304…
The Porky Pig video loads a bit, then breaks down to this:
bracket= [
BRACKET "youtube w7CclVneVpw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CclVneVpw&fe… youtube" BRACKET
You guys just made mine! Well done all! 😀
oh finallt! thanks so muchy!:*<3
Very nice. CommentLuv might already be compatible.
Thanks for the CommentLuv link.
I notice that once my post containing a poll was pushed to the second page, the poll disappeared, although a link to the PollDaddy page still appears in the dashboard version of that post.
* UPDATE: After about 15 minutes, the poll re-appeared.
Also, I notice that the Polldaddy page does not correctly identify me although I have a PollDaddy account that uses the same email address as my ID account. It would be good if this was handled automatically because, as far as I can see, there is now way within PollDaddy to claim polls created via ID.
I checked to see if I can link my PollDaddy account to my ID account, surprisingly I can't although I can link my PollDaddy account to my MySpace, Flickr, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Piczo, StumbleUpon, Digg and Pownce.
They will probably add IntenseDebate if you buy them a Guinness for St. Patrick's Day.
Happy to report that we've released our shiny new CommentLuv plugin!
😀
My recent post Give a little luv to your comments with the IntenseDebate CommentLuv Plugin
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🙂 Smile as you comment, express via video and threaded comments! very nice. Keep it up. I took less than 5 minutes to intensedebate! thanks!
Will there be a possibility to combine intensedebate with phpBB?
Log in one place, and the comments you make in intensedebate will also be in the phpBB-forums.
Great job! I use intensedebate on my blog and it's really cool! Congrats!
Very interesting move. Been following the Comments Wars from afar and think this tilts it back to you guys. The Disqus social commenting move is a bit of a re d herring. I don't think it's about aggregating comments, increasingly it's about richer, filtered commentary.
ps – when I click on the 'Posted by Michael Koenig' link it tries to send me to his profile but instead sends me to 404 error at http://is.gd/m7Zn
Thanks for pointing that out. We'll take a look.
That's interesting – could elaborate on what you mean by "richer, filtered, commentary"? 🙂
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Thanks for letting us know about the pagination issue. We'll take a look.
We'll also check out some options with PollDaddy. I'll keep you posted. 🙂
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I believe that comments are a 'platform', and an incredibly rich data source. But the way they have traditionally been presented is awfully limiting. I mean, the idea that they are displayed as a chronological (or reverse) list SEEMS logical. But it's not particularly helpful. I want to see the BEST comments, the most active, the controversial ones, the ones which attracted the most interest etc. So I believe the next step is to effectively 'filter' these comments and ensure they rise to the top. This is what makes for richer discussion. I am actually working on a related concept right now and have many other ideas, so maybe there's scope for a further chat 😀
Works GREAT!
Well done Michael. I appreciate what u do. 😀
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It would be nice if you can add IntenseChat. Commenting and Chatting would go well with eachother and it would help build highly interactive relationships with the site visitors. If the chat allows video it would be evenmore interactive. It may be achieved through Seesmic video plugin.
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One small thing I noticed, when I am using a mouse wheel to scroll… it stops over the youtube vids and I am forced to use the scroll bar. Minor inconvenience.
btw, my polldaddy poll didnt show. also, when I edit a comment, there is no option to add a poll, smiley, etc. Only for new comments.
God, I can't wait to see what people do with this. I can remember sitting on Jon's couch talking about it a year and a half ago. Nice work and good implementation.
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Maybe i missed it but is there any chance to get ID localized in different languagues?
Unfortunately not at this time. Our UI is still going through some changes. Once our UI is all set we'll open it up for the language customization. Sorry for the inconvenience.
IntenseDebate is open for localization. Details here on the languages we offer – http://wp.me/plsX6-v3
Wow…Thank you Intense Debate for doing this! This makes me borderline-euphoric!!! Although these plugins might be seemingly trivial to some, they are a big deal for me. Thanks you so much. I can finally rest, knowing that I have the best commenting system with all the features that I need. I'm going to pump your commenting system all over the web now. Already wrote an article praising Intense Debate and am about a-bomb it into cyberspace viral style. My forte of course.;)
Thanks! We love hearing that. B)
Thanks for the smileys plugin. Let's hope for more great plugins in the future. 😀
I may not get it….
Once the plugin is activated on my blog, I only see 1 comment per post, instead of all of the comments. I checked it out on a couple of posts that have 9, 5, and 4 comments, and only the first comment displays. Maybe I'm doing something wrong…maybe it's a conflict with one of my many other plugins.
I even tried 'logging' in and out to make sure that you didn't need to be authenticated to see everything, which isn't what I would want anyway.
I deactivated….
It's possible that your import wasn't complete. I reset your import just to make sure. That should take care of it.
What does that mean? You reset the import meaning that you deleted all of the imported comments?
They were imported. I got the email, and even after the email I went back and did a bunch of refreshes until it actually did say 100%. And I did view a post that initially had all of the comments, but it was like a few minutes later, my posts didn't….
Are you saying that if I want to use this I am going to have to go through the long process of the import again?
I just wanna my comments imported on Intense Debate. It's taking 2 days to import about 900 comments, what's is the problem?
What URL is this for? I checked our database and it appears that you are using our older WordPress plugin (version 1.75). Can you try using the latest version (v 2.0.18)? You can download the latest version using the following instructions:
1. Uninstall version 1.75
2. Search the WordPress plugin directory for IntenseDebate or download it here.
3. Install version 2.0.18 and follow the instructions. Once you've configured the plugin your import will automatically start.
That should do it.
Sorry for not clarifying. Comments that were already imported will not be reimported. Our importer runs a check and only imports comments that were missed (this might have been caused by a communication error). You won't need to go through another import once we get everything all set.
Can you email me and maybe look at what is going on with my site specifically? Would you have time for something like that? Then I could temporarily activate the plugin and get some feedback…
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Congrats, that will make me think twice about leaving IntenseDebate as well. Looking into it right now.
Does ID work with the CommentLuv plug-in? :S
Happy to introduce the shiny new IntenseDebate CommentLuv plugin! Link below (using CommentLuv! 🙂 )
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I'm really digging the new plug ins and easy integration and feel of ID. Now I need to find others.
why is it written login in comment.. I am still not sure about the plugin but it looks good especially youtube kind 🙂
Michael,
I'm still using the old plugin without any problem. Any reason I should upgrade?
Thanks.
Hi, I am sorry to be so uninformed about IntenseDebate … very new to it … but I'm hugely hopeful I can use this on my own site someday. Big issue #1 is that currently my visitors can upload photos and I need to somehow preserve he ones that are there and continue the ability if I can migrate to ID. Anyone hear of a photo upload plugin in the words? I am a barely adequate programmer.
It would be nice if my commenters could post a pdf, .doc, or a picture in-line, even if it were hosted somewhere else. For example, post the URL of a picture on Flickr and have the picture show up in-line, or the URL of a public link from Dropbox and have the a small version of the file show up that could be clicked on to be opened up or downloaded.
Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback. IntenseDebate does support img tags in comments. However this is an option that has to be enabled by blog admins. It can be enabled in your blog settings page.
Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Any feedback on the .doc/pdf idea?
Russ
How do my commenters know that they can post images? It would be nice if it were a button on top of the comment like the YouTube/Poll/Seesmic plugins.
Russ
Hi Russ. Sorry for the delay. This would be a cool plugin. Perhaps one of our IntenseDebate enthusiasts can help you develop this. In the meantime you can add custom text at the bottom of your comment section and include instructions on how to post images for your readers. This feature is located on the right in your Settings page at IntenseDebate.com.
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I have all my plugns enabled 😀
nice !
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I love this system more and more ..
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Way to go! Intense Debate rocks! I have been using it for a few months now and I must say that I love it. 😀 I wish comment luv can be integrate soon. 😀
Happy to introduce the shiny new IntenseDebate CommentLuv plugin! Link below (using CommentLuv! 🙂 )
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Thanks for the improvements! Been looking looking forward to including Intense Debate on my site.. what's the word on Comment Luv compatibility?
Happy to introduce the shiny new IntenseDebate CommentLuv plugin! Link below (using CommentLuv! 🙂 )
My recent post Give a little luv to your comments with the IntenseDebate CommentLuv Plugin
How about integrating "Comment Luv"??
😐
Happy to introduce the shiny new IntenseDebate CommentLuv plugin! Link below (using CommentLuv! 🙂 )
My recent post Give a little luv to your comments with the IntenseDebate CommentLuv Plugin
intense debate is awesome enough already.
Now I'm sure even more people will want to use intense debate as much as I want them to.
Nice work fellas
What about a top commentators widget? and will this erase old comments?
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Hi! I installed "intense debate" yesterday and it worked good for a while. But after a couple of hours it didn't work any more. Actually, now I can't see how many comments there are. I don't know what I can do to fix it. Sorry for my English. Thank you!
I have installed IntenseDebate a few hours ago and it is working very well, i love it and i will use it often
Wow. Your plugins are great. Thanks for sharing them. I like smileys. I'll use them too.:D
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😀 The smiley plugin OWNS! I would also like to see some integration between the video respnse and YouTube Plugins.
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