Using Disqus

Stencil themes have the ability to integrate with Disqus, a third-party commenting system that allows users to leave blog comments on blog posts made with Stencil’s built-in blog. Disqus can also be used on Stencil product pages to allow comment and review threads on individual products.

Integrating Disqus with your Stencil blog

To use Disqus blog comments in Stencil, follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your BigCommerce control panel.
2. Navigate to Channel Manager > Edit storefront settings.
   • For non-MSF storefronts, navigate to Storefront.
3. Click on Themes > Advanced > Edit Theme Files for your theme.
4. Navigate to Templates > Pages > blog-post.html.
5. Paste your Disqus Universal Code before the closing {{/partial}} tag.
6. Save your files.
7. Apply your theme.

Integrating Disqus with your Stencil product pages

1. Log in to your BigCommerce control panel.
2. Navigate to Channel Manager > Edit storefront settings.
   • For non-MSF storefronts, navigate to Storefront.
3. Click on Themes > Advanced > Edit Theme Files for your theme.
4. Navigate to Templates > Pages > product.html.
5. Paste your Disqus Universal Code before the closing {{/partial}} tag.
6. In the Disqus Universal Code that you have posted, there is a function that reads like below:

var disqus_config = function () {
    this.page.url = PAGE_URL;  // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable
    this.page.identifier = PAGE_IDENTIFIER; // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page's unique identifier variable
};

Change the value of this.page.url to be product.url, and the value of this.page.identifier to be product.id, so that the function now reads like below:

var disqus_config = function () {
    this.page.url = product.url;
    this.page.identifier = product.id;
};

7. Save your files.
8. Apply your theme.