WordPress Plugin v2.0.17
Yet another revision of the IntenseDebate WordPress plugin is here. So what’s different? Quite a bit…
The most notable change is in the initial registration. We’ve completely rebuilt the interface for initial registration of your blog with IntenseDebate to help make the process even easier and better explain what is happening during this one-time registration to clear up some confusion that was circling around the previous versions. Below are a couple of screenshots of the new registration:
We’ve also addressed some display bugs when using our plugin with the latest 2.7 release of WordPress.
Additionally, we continue to improve the syncing between IntenseDebate and WordPress. We’ve now added a method to help us detect if your blog ends up out of sync with IntenseDebate and automatically correct the issue.
And last but not least we’ve heard your cries for XHTML validation and made some improvements to the code to address this, as well as alleviating some plugin conflicts with a handful of other plugins that conflicted with the previous version of our plugin.
If you’re an existing plugin user you can update from your Plugins page in your blog’s WordPress admin panel. If not (or if you prefer to upgrade yourself) you can download the plugin here. As always, give us your feedback! We’d love to hear what you think and any suggestions you might have for making the integration with WordPress even better.
Posted by Jon Fox in WordPress Plugin
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Thanks for the update guys!
blogger members forgoten again 😦
Thanks for the update guys. Glad to hear you've improved the ID <-> WP sync. The setup process is a bit more elegant as well.
I'd love it if you could add the ability to sync comments from IDC back to WordPress. I've got one blog I use IDC on that has a number of comments on it that show up just fine in IDC but that don't show up in my WordPress database or dashboard. Other than that, things look better and better with each new update!
Jim, we're working on this and will have it in the future. Sometimes we encounter an issue contacting your server when we sync back a new comment creating this discrepancy.
That makes sense. IDC has already made such great leaps since I first started using it, so I'm looking forward to seeing what other improvements you guys make. 🙂
thanks for the update. is there a support forum, or perhaps this is the best place to ask questions. Or email is still the best venue?
We use Get Satisfaction for our support forum. You can also email support.
Intense Debate is grossly flawed. There are people who are spamming the boards with minus ratings for no reason other than meanness and ID has chosen to ignore the complaints. It has gotten to the point that the ratings are meaningless and still ID does nothing, and they refuse to give a reply one way or another.
When are you going to DO something?
This is a concern of ours. We're looking at possible solutions, however there are several hurdles. How should comment voting be regulated to prevent this? How can it be regulated without restricting your ability to genuinely vote a comment down?
While there are other issues, those are the two main concerns at the moment. We'd love your feedback on how to improve this system.
Well… http://getsatisfaction.com/intensedebate/topics/r…
Thanks for the feedback Dale. We'll look into this. However this won't solve the issue of preventing people from creating fake accounts to vote comments down.
That's actually quite a smart idea…
why do I have to import all comments again after upgrading the plugin? that doesn't make sense to me at all.
You don't have to. If you've already imported your comments, you can just skip that step (it's what I did). 🙂
It doesn't give you an option to skip. I just upgraded on my WP 2.7 blog and the ID settings page just gave me one option – import comments. My reaction was 'Wtf?'.
That's strange. I upgraded on all four of my sites that use IDC, and they all gave me the option to skip the import process.
It's not a complete import process when you update your plugin. We imports any comments that were posted in WordPress after your last import just to make sure everything is synced properly.
It'd be nice for the WordPress plugin to have it's own versions of the javascript widgets that you can just pick in your theme widget setup with cached data to make them fast.
Regardless of that though, it all works impressively well. I had some layout problems initially but there are options there for turning different styling on and off that worked like a charm. Keep up the good work! 🙂
Awesome idea!
Can you tell us which plugin conflicts you resolved? I've been hoping that the MCEComments plugin and ID would be able to play together, but so far that plugin doesn't seem to work with the new ID plugin.
What blogs are using IntenseDebate? It would be cool to see which blogs are using the services of ID.
Thanks for the quick reply Austin.
Per #2 On my main page (GrassrootsPA.com) Firefox displays the number of comments under each story but those number just don't want to pop up under IE. Any idea why? Out of all the problems this is the biggest for me.
Guys, have a host of issues with WordPress and your new plugin. LOVE the idea of IntenseDebate but none of these issues have been fixed since the previous plugin.
1) When Intense Debate is installed "Recent Comment/Discussions" style Widgets and Plugins do not work properly, do not see all the comments. Your supplied widgets are great but I have a news style site and need widgets to show recent hot stories, etc. IntenseDebate messes this up entirely.
2) In both Firefox and Internet Explorer my site takes MUCH longer to load.
3) In Internet Explorer the number of comments (example: (3), or (5) or (11) etc) under each post simply do not show. In Firefox it takes a while for this number to show (please, can you do something so the number pops right up? This is too slow and defeats the point of my news site entirely (want to show immediately which stories are hot, which ones people comment heavily on)
4) Maybe I am not understanding this correctly, but I thought there was a way to prevent folks from commenting unless they supply their email. Have been using WordPress to require all commenters to supply an email, but with IntenseDebate it seems anyone can comment regardless of whether or not they supply an email or not. Huh? Trolls will abuse my site if I do not require folks to supply an email. Can you please fix this or supply a working method/option to prevent new comments unless one supplies an email?
Again, love the concept of IntenseDebate but the downsides greatly outweigh the upside at this point in development (slow speed, missing comments in conjunction with other recent comments/topics widgets, no way to block those not supplying email, number of comments under each post not showing in IE)
1) With the new WordPress plugin, your comments should show up in your WordPress database as well, thus, the widgets you might have had before that show recent hot stories should still work. If they don't, let me know.
2) Is it just the main page ( http://grassrootspa.com/) or the specific posts as well ( http://grassrootspa.com/?p=17585) that take longer to load?
3) Unfortunately, we can't make the comment links immediately show, as IntenseDebate is designed to load last (to prevent slowing down your site)
4) You can require your commenters to be an IntenseDebate user (meaning they'll have entered their email) here: http://intensedebate.com/editacct/91864under "Comment Posting"
Thanks for the quick reply Austin.
Per #2 On my main page (GrassrootsPA.com) Firefox displays the number of comments under each story but those number just don't want to pop up under IE. Just seems to be happening on my main page. Any idea why? Out of all the problems this is the biggest for me.
Heads up, Austin,
I switched "IntenseDebate Enhanced Comment Links" back to the default WordPress links and now my site loads a ZILLION times faster.
Best of all in both Internet Explorer and Firefox comment numbers (example (3) comments, (4) comments) show up once again.
It looks like there is some sort of bug within "IntenseDebate Enhanced Comment Links" which prevents Internet Explorer from properly displaying comment numbers on the main page (and causing a huge slowdown in Firefox).
Still don't know why the default WordPress setting requiring one to supply an email WILL NOT work right.
Any chance you can include this in a future release. I imagine I'm not the only one who wants those leaving comments to use an email.
I knew there was someone else out there who wanted to require email addresses! Thanks Dajad. Anyone else feel the same?!?
I would also like the require email address feature
whats up with the new release last night 2.18? any new features or just bugs?
Can't seem to notice anything new from 2.17. Was the 'Auto Login' WordPress setting in 2.17?
2.0.18 is a bug fix to limit max length of the debug log.
There was an importer issue with version 2.0.17 which has been fixed with 2.0.18. The issue had to deal with upgrading the plugin. WordPress deactivated and reactivated the plugin during the upgrade, but the reactivation wasn't registering on our end. Our system identified your plugin as being deactivated which stopped the import.
will you integrate Seesmic and FB connect?
We're looking into it!
please focus on the core first. you are a commenting gadget first. I think the trend to be a social network is redundant. I would rather see you fixing your widgets first. Commenting widgets, i.e. recent comments is your core functionality and it is still the slowest item to load on the page, uncustomizible, etc. People want to come on the site and get out. They already belong to 300 networks, another network makes them nauseous, no matter the benefit. A name should be linked to a web site not to point to my twitter account for example. I can take care of that myself, trust me.
You still got a lot of work to do with graphics, with this simple goal – less flashy minimalist interface, less intimidating, more inviting for people to
comment.
It would be awesome if those widgets loaded faster.
Agreed!
The plugin does not work in Firefox for my blog.
If you try to make a comment, the boxes where you can fill in your comment shows up for a brief moment but as the page loads, these boxes collapse and disappear.
You are left with your avatar and login name and under it you see the submit button. But nowhere to write your comment!
It works perfectly in IE though.
As far as I know, I have the last version of Firefox.
thanks for this updates,latest version 2.0.17 which has been fixed with 2.0.18.
Love the updated plug-in but I have a couple problems which I imagine are easily fixable on my end.
1. I've found that by using IntenseDebate and "recent comment" type plug-ins, those plug-ins supply the incorrect links to the actual comment. The #comment-ID link supplied by these types of plug-ins obviously does not properly link to the ID comment, so when a user clicks on the comment link they're not taken to the correct location on the page. Is this fixable without having to use the ID recent comments widget? I would rather use a local plug-in for a couple reasons: 1) speed and 2) completely customizable.
2. I've opted to use CSS to modify the default height of the comment textarea. As soon as I enter the textarea and start typing the area contracts to the default size. Any way it can stay the same size *I* specify?
Thanks for a great plug-in otherwise!
If Intense Debate wasn't by far the superior commenting system, I would have dropped it a long time ago. Integration with Facebook Connect is a must. This might seem trivial to some but it's a must for me. Any word on whether or not ID plans on a Facebook integration? I'm willing to pay someone that can cohesively integrate ID and FB connect into my WordPress 2.7 blog.
Agree 100% Alex.
Thanks for the update guys, fox did a great job and I like this comment system.
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and a Exporting tool if something doesn't work?
Why does the plugin try to export the comments again? I have been using Intense Debate on my blogs for quiet some time now.
I have only been known to comment on 1 site, but I have regularly noticed the submit or reply buttons have been greyed out, while I am actually logged in. (at this very moment, both at the same time)
Is this a technical issue of intensedebate or a technical issue of the blog that uses it ? Because I am posting this here with no problems, but I am unable to submit a comment while I am still logged in on the blog I wanted to post a comment on in the first place.
It sounds like the site admins have closed comments on that post. Can you provide me with a specific link please?
I posted a comment on a specific thread on Jihadwatch after opening the Opera browser. (Yes, I do use multiple browsers if things get awkward) This seemed to do the trick, for whatever reason.
I get the impression that this problem (more often than not) occurs in Internet Explorer rather than in any other browser. (The only thing I do know is that IE has been reported as being more buggy than say Opera, Mozilla or Netscape) Allthough I use a firewall in combination with Spybot S&D and half a dozen 'temporary files' cleaners and registry defragmentation tools, this did not solve the problem.
So I am glad to say I resolved the issue by using Opera. Nevertheless, thank you very much for the swift reply.