Moving to BlogEngine.Net 2.5+Disqus to Stop Spam

Oct 1, 2011

Deleted 100K+ comments (again!)

Noticed that BlogEngine.NET 2.5 supports Disqus.

After upgrading I used this tool (http://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/Convert-BlogML-comments-to-XWR-for-Disqus.aspx) to move my comments over!

And also had to apply this BlogEngine Disqus Comment Count Fix

The last part I had to do was update scripts/blog.js to put the div.appendChild(p) below the (ul) in order for the rating text to appear as expected

showRating: function (container, id, raters, rating) {
    var div = document.createElement('div');
    div.className = 'rating';

    var p = document.createElement('p');
    if (raters == 0) {
        p.innerHTML = BlogEngine.i18n.beTheFirstToRate;
    }
    else {
        p.innerHTML = BlogEngine.i18n.currentlyRated.replace('{0}', new Number(rating).toFixed(1)).replace('{1}', raters);
    }

    var ul = document.createElement('ul');
    ul.className = 'star-rating small-star';
    div.appendChild(ul);
    div.appendChild(p);

Let’s see how spam will (hopefully) not be present anymore!

Please comment! (to double check that the system works)

I’ll be able to blog nicely and regularly again! Yay! Smile