Several disqus-threads on one page

Question

we have a website where we have list a lot of events, and would like to add discussions to each of the events.

So we wanted to use disqus, and checked it out. Turns out they use global variables to configure the instance.

like;

var disqus_shortname = '';

var disqus_identifier = '';

var disqus_url = '';

This poses a problem for us, when we don't want to use the same identifier, but rather a unique one per disqus instance. tried putting each instantiation + configuration in iframes, but that really screwed up ie8. is there a better way of doing it?

So, to sum it up; several instances of disqus on one page. how? has someone else done it?

Thanks

Answer 1

We faced a similar issue and emailed Disqus about this. They confirmed that by default they only support one Disqus module per page.

When browsing the Disqus JS documentation, I did find a solution that might work for you by loading and unloading the Disqus modules as the user interacts with the site:

DISQUS.reset({
  reload: true,
  config: function () {  
    this.page.identifier = "newidentifier";  
    this.page.url = "http://example.com/#!newthread";
  }
});

http://docs.disqus.com/help/85/

The exact implementation would depend upon your site, but this should give you a building block to start from. For example, if the event information becomes available by expanding a content area, you could load the Disqus module whenever someone expands the event content.