If the regular wordpress comments system are not enough for your viewer, you may want to take a look at intense debate system. It is a system that does magic in the field of comments.
With much greater management and functions with Intense Debate, this is a great module that makes organizing your comments much easier.
- Comment Threading
- Reply-By-Email
- Email Notifications
- Commenter Profiles
- Moderation/Blacklisting
- Reputation Points & Comment Voting
- Plugins API
- OpenID
- Widgets
- RSS Readers & Tracking
What is IntenseDebate?
IntenseDebate is the premier commenting system available on the Internet for blogs and websites. IntenseDebate comments enhances and encourages conversation on your blog or website. With IntenseDebate you can give your blog readers the opportunity to better engage your blog’s content and each other. ID offers numerous features that makes improves the commenting experience, like our Reply By Email functionality which enables you to reply to and moderate comments via email!
IntenseDebate brings the value of insightful comments back into the light. No longer do you have to sort through an endless maze of sub-par comments and responses. IntenseDebate organizes your comments allowing your readers to express their opinions and thoughts. With IntenseDebate’s reputation system and comment voting, you’re able to quickly find the worthwhile comments and commenters, while cutting through all of the other nonsense. Subscribe to comments with our RSS readers support. Give your blog an entire new dimension of interaction with IntenseDebate!
Installing IntenseDebate on your blog
Fill in your information, and click the “I want to install IntenseDebate on my blog or website” and then click the Sigu up button to continue. IntenseDebate system will send you an automated confirmation email for you to validate the email address. Once that is finish, please login to the indetensedebate dashboard.
Click on the +Add blog/site button on the top menu bar.
Type in the web address where your blog located at.
Click on the wordpress icon, but this depends on which blog software you are using, but for this tutorial I will walk you through with wordpress.
Drop us a note if you are having trouble with other software, we will try to help.
Instructions
- Download the plugin. IntenseDebate. Be sure to click on the link of that page to get the latest plugin available from the IntenseDebate Team
- Upload the file to the
wp-content/pluginsfolder on your blog. (more info) - You need to activate the IntenseDebate plugin in order to install the comment system. Go to the Plugins menu item in the left sidebar and find IntenseDebate Comments in the list.Click Activate.
- From the backend of your wordpress, click on the left panel, Settings > IntenseDebate
Setting Up IntenseDebate
In this screen, you will need to enter the account information. either by email|password or username|user key, any other combination will not work. User Key can be view at your IntenseDebate .
How to obtain your IntenseDebate User Key
Importing your existing comments to IntenseDebate
Import your WordPress comments into IntenseDebate. For your old WordPress comments to show up in the plugin, they need to be imported to give them all the IntenseDebate comment goodness.
The process usually takes less than a few hours, but times may vary depending on how many comments you’re importing. You’ll be notified via email when the import is complete.
Note: Until your comments are imported they will not show up in the IntenseDebate comment system. Don’t worry though, your comments are still safe and will be ready as soon as the import completes.
By default the Checkbox for Use IntenseDebate's default moderation settings (recommended) should be check. Please leave as is.
By enabling this option, IntenseDebate will add commonly-abused keywords and phrases to your moderation settings, so that you can avoid spam in your comments. You can always edit/delete these values later if you don’t want them any more.
Once you click on the link, seat back and relax.
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Good Luck!
It’s interesting that no matter what someone writes, you want to read it.
Actually,good post. thx
I haven't installed intense debate yet on my blogs, but I'm looking forward to see if it can increase the level of participation
what a great post..
way to go..
thumbs up..
Interesting..
I have used Intense Debate in my wordpress blog it ultimately failed synchronizing with old wordpress comments and then I switched to Disqus. It had lot of issues too. Now I am finally with the comment form comes with theme.
This is what happens when I tired… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8jSoBPWoC0 HELP PLEASE!!!
Thank You For This Post, it's useful and I install intensedebate to your WordPress later.
with intensedebate, its realy easy to manage comments.
it sounds nice! I will try it!
Excellent! Thanks for putting this together – we appreciate your help. I wish I was submitting this comment using IntenseDebate.
Thanks for the post but I think I'll remain a Disqus fan just because they haven't failed me yet. Don't change what isn't broken right?
Just registered to Intense Debate, willing to install on my blog as well.Thanks for the tips n instructions
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