Load Disqus on localhost
Do you get a We were unable to load Disqus error when loading Disqus on localhost? The top Google results will tell you that you need to enable the following flag in <head>:
var disqus_developer = 1; // this would set it to developer modeUnfortunately, I had no luck with such flag. I can’t find it in any of Disqus’s documentation either, so my bet is that the flag was deprecated.
You can instead set the disqus_url config param to point to the correct site URL.
// jekyll syntax.
// This evaluates to http://kenhirakawa.com/load-disqus-on-localhost
// for this page
var disqus_url = '{{ site.url }}{{ page.url }}';Now when you load your site via localhost, Disqus will match the disqus_url param with your registered site URL. If they match, Disqus will load. If you leave the parameter undefined, the script will use window.location.href instead, which evaluates to ‘localhost’. Obviously, ‘localhost’ does not match your site URL, which explains why Disqus didn’t load on localhost in the first place.
One more thing that made me trip was the website URL format under the Site Identity settings. I had it set to http://www.kenhirakawa.com, when it should have been just http://kenhirakawa.com. The syntax is documented here, but I’d wish they’d just client-side validate the field.
Hope this helps anyone having trouble loading Disqus on localhost!