Integrating Disqus Comment System with Woocommerce

Some woocommerce site-owners like to have a great commenting system in place of the reviews that come out-of-the-box with Woo-commerce.

WP Tuts+ has a great post on how to manually integrate Disqus with any page in wordpress. I’m going to start from there on how to extend those steps for Woocommerce -Disqus integration.

Assuming that you have already created your Disqus account and registed your site URL there and you also have a disqus shortname (for the purpose of this article, i’m taking the shortnme to be ‘my_awesome_shortname’)

Here is the code that you will need to copy into the functions.php of your theme :

function disqus_embed($disqus_shortname) {
    global $post;
    wp_enqueue_script('disqus_embed','http://'.$disqus_shortname.'.disqus.com/embed.js');
    echo '<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var disqus_shortname = "'.$disqus_shortname.'";
        var disqus_title = "'.$post->post_title.'";
        var disqus_url = "'.get_permalink($post->ID).'";
        var disqus_identifier = "'.$disqus_shortname.'-'.$post->ID.'";
    </script>';

You need to access the following file:So once you have copied this code into your functions.php, we are ready to call this function it anywhere we want the Disqus commeting system to appear.  Right now I really want it in my WooCommerce Reviews tab.

/wp-content/themes/your-theme/woocommerce/single-product-reviews.php

Just add this code here, after replacing ‘my_awesome_shortname’ with yout own disqus shortname:

<?php disqus_embed('my_awesome_shortname'); ?>

The recent woo-commerce 2 update has added a lot to a lot of people’s woes. Many themes are breaking and because the new update is a major release, not all file-names in the new version correspond to the older version. So a lot of tutorials and trouble-shooting material on the internet that has been written for Woo-commerce has become out-dated.

Being a wordpress novice, I do things by trail-n-error, and this has worked for me. I usually crash my site and servers over and over by these trials, just to trudge forward and get things going! If you face any issues, do let me know.