IntenseDebate Comments
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Description
IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!
Full comment and account data sync between Intense Debate and WordPress ensures that you will always have your comments stored locally on your own server.
Settings
After activating proceed to the plugin settings page (under “Settings” -> “IntenseDebate”) to configure your plugin. Don’t forget to visit your account at IntenseDebate.com for additional customization options.
Faq
What is data synchronization?
Comments made in IntenseDebate are automatically backed-up to your WordPress comment system, while your existing WordPress comments are automatically imported into IntenseDebate. You always have all of your comments so uninstalling is a one-click process if you change your mind. Syncing your accounts enables auto-login so logging into WordPress automatically logs you into IntenseDebate. Profile sync also means that comments you make are synchronized to both profiles so you maintain ownership of your profile.
What about SEO?
IntenseDebate outputs the standard WordPress comments enabling your comments to still be indexed by search engines that ignore JavaScript, while ensuring that visitors surfing with JavaScript disabled will be able to interact with comments made in IntenseDebate. Readers with JS disabled can comment in the original WP system and those comments will be imported into IntenseDebate.
How do I use my OpenID?
While you can use your OpenID to login and signup with IntenseDebate, using your OpenID to synchronize IntenseDebate and WordPress accounts is not currently supported.
If you created your account using your OpenID you will need to access your IntenseDebate username and userkey. Your username and user key will allow you to sync your accounts. You will need to be logged into IntenseDebate in order to access your username and user key.
How do I sync my accounts?
After installing and activating the IntenseDebate plugin you will need to update your account settings in your Plugin Settings page and either create an IntenseDebate account or login to your IntenseDebate account. Your data synchronization and comment import will start as soon as you have successfully logged in.
Please Note: Your comments may take several hours to import. The time of your import is dependent on how many other import requests we are receiving in addition to how many comments are currently being imported.
Screenshots
An example of the comment system itself. Notice all the extra goodies like user profile information, reputation, threaded comments, comment voting, RSS feeds for everything, and more!
This is the enhanced moderation screen. Note the extra information about the commenter (same drop down menu for each user from the previos screenshot is available here).
The settings page for the IntenseDebate plugin. There are many ways to customize IntenseDebate to do just as much as you want it do.
First step in the registration process – syncing up your IntenseDebatre account with your WordPress blog.
Second step of the registration process – the import to convert all your existing comments into IntenseDebate goodness.
Final step of the registration process – a few helpful links to get you started getting the most out of your new IntenseDebate comment system.
