We're looking at a comment system for a corporate brand website on product pages. We've been leaning towards LiveFyre over Facebook Comments because of the potential to reach other social media markets such as Twitter.
However, we don't fully understand how it works and what the implication would be if we chose to migrate away from it at a later stage? Where are the comments stored and if we switched to Disqus or Facebook Comments later, would the comments be kept?
Here was the official response from LiveFyre after I emailed them:
"My apologies, I must have missed that you were not on WordPress. At the moment, there is no storage of non-WordPress site's comments, but an API is in development to import and export those comments. While I don't have an exact ETA on that feature, definitely keep an eye on blog.livefyre.com for updates as we'll be posting them there first!"
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I have a Blogger blog and I used to have Blogger's own comment system in it. I didn't like some parts of it, so I tried changing to Google+ comments instead.
I have no problems with the comment box, it's implemented well, works fine, etc. But when I had Blogger comments, I could see the newest comments my visitors had posted site-wide and I also received email notifications when someone posted a comment in any post of my blog.
However, now, with Google Plus comments, I don't seem to get any sort of notification. (no emails, not even that alert thingy on top-right corner of Google that only ever shows Youtube comments I don't care about) And, also, I know of no way to check the most recent comment in my website.
I kind of need either of these features (most recent / notifications) so I can reply to people when they post comments on my blog. After all I got dozens of posts it's not viable to check every single one of them for new comments every single day.
How can I view the most recent Google plus comments within a website? Or at least receive an email when there is a new Google plus comment posted in my website?
P.S.: I'm not interested in an API for these. There should be an actual user interface somewhere for these things, right?
As it currently stands, this feature has not worked since October 2016.
According to a post by a Google Employee in the official Blogger Forum on 2nd February 2017 -
Hi all,
Thanks for posting.
Just wanted to let you know that the concerned team is aware of this
issue and is working on it. I will keep you all posted as soon as I
get an update from them.
Best,
Theo
Any updates regarding this issue will be likely posted in the above forum thread
I need to create a website which stores the list of all games the player has played and it shows right on your profile. As the player goes on completing a game, he adds the game into his list.
So i would need a basic lo-gin configuration and then by using AJAX, I will populate the list of games which he wants to add to his list. So that he can track the list with games that he has played.
So now I need suggestion on how to go on with it?
How to start building?
Which language do I need to pickup?
I am well versed with Java and j2ee.
Is this enough?
Also I am a freelancer so I can't afford to pay for a website. So any free website hosting service which will help me to build the website which I have in mind??
Also if I use any free website hosting service, will they provide me with a database and AJAX capabilities?
Here's the basic setup:
You need a domain first. Try to pick something unique, as it will be cheaper. You can find one on namecheap: https://www.namecheap.com
You need hosting. Again, go with namecheap.
To start building, you need to learn some HTML and CSS. HTML is markup of the web, and CSS is the stylesheet of the web. They aren't hard languages to start off in. You can start for free at Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-css
I believe namecheap offers database support as well. Ajax isn't provided by a hosting service. It's more of a group of languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
This should get you going. I can't really give you more detailed information than this because your question is really broad. If you Google your questions, you'll get good answers and guides.
Best of luck.
I want to set up a forum using phpbb.
I've done that in the past by using websites that host it for you, for example:
http://www.phpbbweb.com/ , http://www.free-phpbb-forum.com/ or http://www.prophpbb.com/
These kind of websites are using the phpBB software.
I do not direcly want to register hosting and domainname because I'm not sure if people will actually sign-up, so I was thinking about making a free forum first on one of the above websites (or similar), and if people like it I want to export all the content(users, posts, maybe the theme) to a self hosted site wich I can build a website around and stuff.
Would this be possible ?(apart from the fact that it might be confising for members searching the forum)
Also I would like to know if it is possible to make your own themes(/styles?) for the free hosted ones.
Maybe this is a really stupid question but I'm wondering because at WordPress you have a big diffrence between wordpress.com and wordpress.org, for example the theme design.
For others that are also searching for this:
I made a forum at http://www.prophpbb.com/
It is NOT possible to use ftp on your forum, however, there are a lot of themes avalible for use wich you can customise by changing the css sheet.
As a free user it is possible to send an email to the admins of the prophpbb website to ask for a backup of your forum.
This way you can incluse that when you 'move' your forum.
As a premium member, you can backup the database yourself.
A colleague and I have been partnered on a project for school, in which we must take an existing site and revamp it to client specifications.
The client's site is the college journalism site, built on Joomla. They're currently using an archaic version, and we are migrating their content to a new installation. In addition to an overhaul to the interface (which we are having no trouble with) the client has asked for the addition of some features.
Email subscription services
Moderated social commentary
Multimedia integration
For Email subscription services, we've decided on jNews, and after a preliminary check on a temporary install it seems to be a decent choice. The problem we've come across is with the other two feature additions.
My question essentially is; What suggestions could SO offer of Joomla Extensions that provide moderated social commentary functionality, and multimedia (audio/video) integration, that play well together. I've looked at yvComment and jMultimedia for social commentary and multimedia integrations respectively, however jMultimedia breaks entirely (PHP throws an exception) post install, and yvComment is giving me headaches.
Just some quick details on the functionality;
Moderated social commentary I suppose is rather straightforward. Something that supports perhaps OpenID or similar. Visitors can comment on articles, and moderators can review, and moderate (edit/delete) as necessary.
Multimedia integration is also straightforward. Simply the ability to associate uploaded or linked audio/video content with articles. Gallery views, and other client side snazzyness is also important, but can certainly be sacrificed for better administrative integration.
I'm only looking for suggestions, not comprehensive installation/customization instructions, though I'm certainly not opposed to hearing any from those who have performed such tasks successfully :) Thanks in advance!
I've used several email subscription services... I found AcyMailing to be the best. Especially if you have to do newsletters often.
Moderated social commentary - jComment is a good choice for adding commenting features to the Joomla Articles. However, I recommend using non-native version of content management like K2. K2 is extremely powerful CCK with many cook features and it comes with commenting features, social media sharing and author pages.
I used several components for videos about a year ago. The best one I found was hwVideoShare. It is a great video component similar to Youtube with sharing, commenting, etc... I'm not sure about audio.
Subscription Service - AcyMailing
Content Construction Kit - K2
Video Component - hwVideoShare
If you need community component which has Video/Images/etc look into JomSocial. That thing is amazing.
I love BlogEngine. But from what I can se it does not collect the standard information about the visitors I would like to see (referrer, browser-type and so on).
When I log in as Admin I have a menu item named "Referrer". I can choose a weekday and then I'll be presented with 1 or 2 rows with
"google.com 4 hits, "itmaskinen.se 6 hits" and so on, But that's not what I want to se, I want to se where my visitors come from, country, IP if possible, how many visitors and so on.
If someone of you are familiar with Blogengine.Net and can point me in the right direction to where I would put my own log-code or if you know any visitor-statistic-extension that can do it for me, I would be really happy to know. I prefer an extension, because if I make changes myself to BlogEngine it may break later updates I install.
Blogengine.Net is a blog software made in .Net found here: http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
And yes, I prefer to take this question here rather then in the Blogengine.Net forum, you know why. ;)
(Anyone, feel free to edit my (bad) english in this post and after that delete this sentence)
This isn't an extension, but it's what I use to collect all my blogengine.net data and it should be upgrade safe.
When you log into the Blogengine.NET admin screens you can go to "Settings> Custome Code > Tracking Script", here you can put your http://www.google.com/analytics/ logging script. Google Analytics provides all the referrer, browser type, etc stuff you were wanting. And what's nice is you can then create additional accounts for other sites if you choose.
I use both Google Analytics and StatCounter to track visitor stats. I find that each one provides useful information that the other doesn't. And they're both free to a certain extent.
I place their javascript code int the site.master file of my custom BE.Net skin.
For Google Analytics I go a step further and pass the username of authenticated users as a custom variable. That way I can match users names up with the stats. To do this you can use the _setVar javascript method on the GA pageTracker like so:
<script type="text/javascript">
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-129049-25");
var userDefinedValue = '<%= System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser() != null ? System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser().UserName : "" %>';
pageTracker._setVar(userDefinedValue);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
</script>
Anyone noticed that we miss all the hits coming from RSS readers? Syndication.axd does not run the analytics javascripts. So we miss the vast majority of viewers from the statistics. And we happily analyze that is just not impotant - ad-hoc visitors.
For the vast majority of cases, Google Analytics does just fine. It all depends on how much data you want. For example, if you want to keep note of IP addresses and resolve them to get domain names, and also highlight all visits to your blog from, say, your coworkers at the company where you work, you'd have to write some custom code yourself. However, it's all fairly primitive - these sorts of things are easily achievable using ASP.NET.
I set up gathering statistics on IIS web site of my BlogEngine instance and then analyze the logs using WebLog Expert - http://www.weblogexpert.com.
It is more reliable than google analytics, since I see really ALL requests that are coming to my IIS, no matter if this is a request to axd or to some static content. And, once I've found out that google was fooling me in the number of visits. After that I trust my IIS statistics much more than google.
There is a Widget which can be use to display Visits and Online Users Statistics.
You can find it from following links:
http://www.nuget.org/packages/Statistics/
http://www.itnerd.ir/post/2013/07/25/Visits-and-Online-Users-Statistics-widget-for-BlogEngine-2
but to see the instructions go to the second link.