By and large, the majority of people who blog using WordPress make use of the integrated comment system that comes with the popular CMS. It requires the least amount of work and it can be easily adapted or modified using a series of WordPress plug-ins. However, a growing number of blogs are using alternative comment systems instead.
One of these is called Disqus. That’s because it can pull comments that are not only being written on your blog, but also from other channels like Twitter, YouTube, Digg, and FriendFeed. This way, you can more easily capture the conversation that people are having about your post, even if they are doing it away from your blog.
Another alternative is IntenseDebate. Some of its features include the ability to reply by email, email notifications, reputation points, comment voting, OpenID support, and RSS tracking.
One possibility that does not get as much attention is Echo by JS-Kit. The interesting thing about Echo is that it allows for real-time comments without the need to refresh. It also provides a live stream of tweets, diggs, and more.
Do you use the default WordPress comment system or do you prefer one of these third-party add-ons? Why?
used tires
January 1, 2010 9:00 pm
I am not a huge fan of Disqus, mainly because it is not as simple as the normal traditional way of leaving a blog comment. I’ve seen some bloggers using it the wrong way, and it just destroys the comments to where no one was leaving comments at the rate that it used to be on the guys blog.
Again… for me I like to keep things simple… so traditional wordpress comment style wins.
Till then,
Jean