Django - Disqus not recognizing unique identifier

Question

Basically, the same Disqus comments are showing up for every post. I've read about why this occurs, and still cannot figure out what is going wrong.

Here's what I'm seeing on my page:

And here's my template code:

{% block content %}
    <p> The post id is: {{ post_object.id}} </p>
    <p> The post URL: {{ post_object.get_absolute_url }}


    {# DISQUS #}
    <div id="disqus_thread"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    /* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
    var disqus_shortname = 'MySiteName'; // required
    var disqus_identifier = '{{ post_object.id }}';
    var disqus_url = 'http://localhost:8000{{ post_object.get_absolute_url }}';
    var disqus_title = '{{ post_object.title }}';
    var disqus_developer = 1;        

/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
    (function() {
            var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
            dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
            (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
    })();
    </script>
    <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
    <a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a>
{% endblock content %}

Rendered HTML:

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
/* * * CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT BEFORE PASTING INTO YOUR WEBPAGE * * */
var disqus_shortname = 'MySiteName'; // required
var disqus_identifier = '42';
var disqus_url = 'http://localhost:8000/post/42/';
var disqus_title = 'Test post';
var disqus_developer = 1;

/* * * DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE * * */
(function() {
        var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
            dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
            (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq);
})();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a>

As you can see, the disqus_identifier and disqus_url are unique. What is going on here?

Any ideas or feedback help! Thanks!

EDIT: Alright, I see where the problem is coming from. After posting on a comment on a post located at say http://localhost:8000/post/42/, Disqus adds to the Disqus admin (under the 'Discussions tab') the link to the post as http://localhost:8000/post

This is not even a valid URL on my page. When I explicitly change the link to http://localhost:8000/post/42/, it saves. However, a newly created post will still display the comments from post 42.

Thoughts?

What does the HTML of the rendered template look like? Are the variables substituted as you expect? — Alasdair
Good thought. I added that above, however it appears as it should. — chipperdrew
I think I see where my problems lies. On Disqus's Admin site, under 'Discussions' tab, it is assigning the post the url http://localhost:8000/post. All of the posts are located at http://localhost:8000/post/SOME_NUMBER, therefore since all posts are subsets of the /post domain, the comments aren't unique to a post. — chipperdrew
@chipperdrew, did you find out why the url was showing up as /post in Discussions tab? I'm having the same issue, spent hours on it so far, extremely frustrating — dm03514
Can you try on a staging server? Disqus might check the response on the URL you're providing... — François Constant

user937284 user937284 · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-24T21:16:11

Install django-disqus and use it in your templates.

pip install django-disqus

Add disqus to your INSTALLED_APPS and put your disqus api key in your settings:

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'disqus',
    ...
)

DISQUS_API_KEY = 'YOUR_SECRET_API_KEY'
DISQUS_WEBSITE_SHORTNAME = 'YOUR_WEBSITE_SHORTNAME'

Use disqus template tags in your templates:

some_template.html

# load the tags
{% load disqus_tags %}
# get comments for your website
{% disqus_show_comments "YOUR_WEBSITE_SHORTNAME" %}
# get the url for the current object to get the right comments
{% set_disqus_url object.get_absolute_url %}

hope this helps.

Django - Disqus not recognizing unique identifier

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