Comments
Sandvox integrates with a number of well-known third-party commenting systems to provide site visitors with the ability to leave comments on your site. If you wish to support comments, you can choose from one of the following providers on a per-site basis:
Each of these providers have advantages and disadvantages to their particular approach, look, and user experience. You may want to study the differences between them, and do some experimenting, before settling on a comment provider for your site.
(Legacy Sandvox sites can still use Haloscan. Haloscan was acquired by JS-Kit, and they are not allowing new Haloscan registrations. If you have already published your website and used Haloscan comments, you may continue to do so.)
To enable comments on your site:
- In Sandvox, open the Site Inspector and go to the Properties tab.
- Select the provider from the Weblog Comments popup at the bottom of the inspector window.
- Enter the appropriate ID:
- For Disqus, enter the “short name” of your site as registered to your Disqus account.
- For IntenseDebate, enter your account ID (a very long string of letters and numbers) corresponding to “idcomments_acct” in IntenseDebate’s “generic install” instructions.
- For JS-Kit, enter your email address so you can be registered as the moderator of your comments. (There is no initial account setup for JS-Kit.)
- For Haloscan, enter your Haloscan ID.
- Publish your website
You must then enable comments for each page you wish to allow them on. (Sandvox automatically enables comments for certain pages such as those in a blog.)
To enable comments for a particular page:
- Select the page in the Site Outline.
- Open the Page Inspector.
- Check the “Enable reader comments” box.
Index pages show “comment count” of entries automatically, with a link to the full entry, for all comment systems, rather than showing all comments in-line. Comments are now seen only in the complete weblog entry page.
