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Better Commenting System And Form For Blogger, IntenseDebate.
The most common question i hear from blogger users is ( can i have a better comments form ? )
alot of blogger users just want that simple form for the comments area that looks elegant and have a name ,e-mail and website boxs only,
Today we’ll learn how to convert our blogger regular comments form to another professional widget, this widget is presented by intensedebate.com
- Ease of use:, your visitors just have to type, name and mail only.
- Threading: Reply directly to a specific comment with nested replies.
- Email Notifications: Receive alerts for replies and new comments.
- Reply-By-Email: Respond to and moderate comments via email.
- Comment Voting: Multiple Admins illustration Bring the best comments to the front.
- Moderation: Auto-filter comments by keyword, email and IP addresses.
- Spam Filters: Akismet keeps the spam at bay.
- And really more great features…
we’ll look through the steps in simple points then we’ll read full instructions on how to add it for blogger.
here is the steps in a simple points.
now lets read how to do it in a detailed instructions.
go to IntenseDebate.com and click sign up, fill the form with a true mail, username, and password, then click signup.
you’ll need to verify your e-mail, so please go to the email account that you used to register, you’ll find a message from IntenseDebate.com, please check it, you’ll find an activation link, click on it, and you are done.
now go to your blogger account, and navigate to >> layout >> edit html >> and click Download Full Template, and save your template in a convenient place on your hard drive.
now go back to IntenseDebate.com and on the top right area click login, and log on to your account, after you are loged in your account, on the right side bar
you’ll see this title, Manage blogs/sitesbelow it please click Install IntenseDebate.
then you’ll be taken for a page asking you to type your blog url,
enter your blog url and click next step.
After clicking next step. in step 3, you’ll go to page separated for 2 parts. on the left hand, there is a sidebar contain 2 questions,
- - How would you like to install IntenseDebate?
- Widget
- Template
please choose Template, ( check the box next to it ) - - Which blog posts should have IntenseDebate comments enabled?
- Only on new posts
- On all blog posts
please choose On all blog posts ( check the box next to it )
and then scroll down till you see a button titled ” Browse ” click on it, and choose your blogger template that you downloaded in step 2, then click Upload file.
IntenseDebate.com will modify and generate your new template automatically , and on the next page, you’ll see your new template code, please see the next image.
as you see in the above image, please click on the box, then copy the new generated template code.
then go to your blogger account and once more again, navigate to >> layout >> edit html >>
but this time select all the current template code ( ctrl + A ), delete it, then paste ( replace ) your new template code, and click, Save Template now go to check any of your blog posts.
please visit this blog to see this widget and try it.
please note that some custom blogger templates won’t be compatible with this widget.
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Hmm..It’s good,but has a bad width & my blog looks bad …because the box is big for my page:-s
u know
Thanks
why do you say that sina, i visited your blog and i can see it works great and the width is perfect.
really???:O
:D
But it doesn’t look so when i see my blog using the latest version of Firefox :-s:-s
I’ll try again…maybe the problem is that i see it when I’m logged in!
Thanks 4 ur answer:x
you are welcome sina.
works very fine for me
two thumbs up for the info !!
how to add comment box exactly like yours….. i dont want the buttons login with WP or with intense debate
Now intense debate has commentluv functions !
Your Commentqedfasd Here …. *
Disqus could be another alternative but that works either.
ID have no import comments function from disqus.
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Element type “b:if” must be followed by either attribute specifications, “>” or “/>”. Thats what i get i don’t know why…
Thx man so usefull
so there are two comment boxes on blogger?
Load too slow with Intense Debate, i removed it after 2 weeks. LOL……
Your Comment Here …. This is actually pretty cool, and could be the one killer feature that would make me swap to IntenseDebate. As you probably know, IntenseDebate is a hosted comment manager for your site, just like Disqus.
And now they’ve added plugin support, with a bunch of them available already. Like instant YouTube embedding and Seesmic video commenting support. Check out the launch post, the ReadWriteWeb coverage, Techmeme coverage, and the intro video below
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hey thanks that work,,but i think comment box should like this blog have one,,,owhh but that okay,,ahahaha
plz visit my blog….
prasad1995.blogspot.com
recently shifted to intense debate.. they offer some interesting plugins and extra fields.. commentluv is one that you wouldnt be able to add in blogger if it is not intense debate. . so far it looks impressive…
The Intense Debate Commenting System is not all it’s cracked up to be. For one thing, the I.D. points system seems very flaky. Wonder if anybody else has noticed this?
After all the crap that one blogging site (to remain unnamed for now) and I.D. put us through, forcing us to sign up if we wish to make comments there, and forcing us to open up our systems to Cookies & Javascripting (and God knows what else) so they can monitor/surveill/dossier everything we say, you would think they would consider it a priority to give us “our rightful comment-points” as a friendly little enticement to keep us participating. Apparently not the case…
Not that the “points score” is a big deal in anybody’s life, but why even have it if you can’t make it work accurately? It seemed odd that the score associated with our sign-on handle would keep bouncing around the way it has done, so we took time to mull through the various pages of postings and individually add up the points for each comment, then compared that total against the total points being published on the Profile page: Total for individual postings is 97, whereas the points showing on the Profile page are 59. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?!
Intense Debate is basically a surveillance/censoring system that provides a blog-owner more databasing & censoring or deleting of people’s comments, with a lot of self-promotional HYPE about how great the sysem is, but so far all we’ve seen has been: bogus point-scoring system, a helluva lot of hidden scriptings & ads & cookies going in and out of our hard drives, and unbelievably kludgey & slow page-loading because of aforementioned scripting, cookies, snooping, and oddball stuff. In the old days of the internet, we could just TURN OFF graphics, cookies, scripting, popups, and whatever else we did NOT want to be encumbered with, and just load the “meat” of the webpage and read what interested us. Not so with this new Intense Debate system! Intense Debate does not even try to load comments until all the aforementioned KLUDGE & CLUTTER is done coming and going, loaded and nosing around in our machines. You can try to block things like google’s or akamai’s endless snoops, but good luck at receiving page loads if you do so. And God forbid that you should have to RELOAD the page if the first time around failed–because you’re going to have to go through all that slow loading crap all over again. Or maybe you need to check something offsite before you finalize a post: Be careful about turning off Javascripting and cookies so you can traverse the Net without other sites trailing your every move, because when you come back to the posting site, ready to make your post, you probably will find your “log-in has expired,” so you’ll have to re-log in and reload the page all over again. Talk about wasting time and energy!
Furthermore, Intense Debate is rather heavyhanded in not allowing a poster to make his Profile private if he prefers. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea to be “followed” (stalked?). Not everyone WANTS their comments to be “universal” across the entire worldwide web just because they felt moved to comment on a story on a particular site. Why isn’t there an option given for public or private participation? As for improving the quality of comments on a site, when I.D. is used, that’s debatable. Seems the points system mostly invites people to assault each other and compete with each other at least as much if not more than the older system where people merely commented on things and moved on. All this seems to be a distraction away from the content that the site is trying to provide.
One last irritant is that the SIGN IN and SIGN UP links are mixed up on the site. Instead of having a simple way to LOG IN, I.D. has at least three different methods and they’re all mixed up, with no clear solution until you waste hours and finally learn your way through their illogical maze.
For a company that claims to be among the “best” blogging and commenting sites on the planet, this system seems very unwieldy and aggravating. The original idea to provide content and allow folks to comment on it was pretty brilliant, and we’ve enjoyed using the particular site in question for quite some time, but this latest twist of forcing Intense Debate as our “gatekeeper” is pretty annoying… and may force us to go elsewhere to make our remarks.
Hi, i already install the intensedebate. how to edit the color of comment box?
i use disquss and then intesedebate both is to not good idea and they will wasting time, customizing comment box from blogger its better
it’s really usefull information thanks for sharing…
good information….
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it worked perfectly well on my blog before but when i switched to a new template, it doesn’t show up
It works perfectly on my blogspot
http://everythinginbudget.blogspot.com/2010/08/win-gift-certificates-from-chocolate.html
how can I get my comments if I removed intensedebate?
what comment box u r using on your blog
i want same like this.
works very fine for me
two thumbs up for the info !!
nothing change!!!
thankz max
Intense debate has proved a nightmare for me.Although their commenting system is great it does not display a lot of reader comments even though im gettimg email notification.I hav tried mailing them about the problem seversl times but they do not bother to reply.I’m stuck with thier stupid system because i cannot go back to blogger comments without losing previous comments.Help me plz.
nice post go on with useful tips
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Element type “div” must be followed by either attribute specifications, “>” or “/>”……………….error for me pls help me
I am also getting same error..!!
WoW. This is so cool
Why intensedebate in my blog doesn’t work?
can you give me some details about your problem?
Just installed IntenseDebate on my blog yesterday. So far it’s working great!
I had tried to install it but its not working for me. Following error is showing:
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Element type “b:if” must be followed by either attribute specifications, “>” or “/>”.
I would have tried to rectify it if i would have known that in which section intensedebate is changing the code. Please help me out.
Hi Ashish, I’m sure that you use a custom template, it’s a template error, can you please give me some details about your template.
Yes i am not using the default template of blogger. you can check my template on http://discoverdreamland.blogspot.com Now what should i do to rectify this error? And please reply me on my mail ID also as its tough task to check this page again and again to see your reply.