I’ve been using the WP E-Commerce system for WordPress for YEARS and I thinks it’s a very useful tool for small businesses, but it also needs to be tweaked and modified to be completely useful. I hated the default comment system that came with the plug-in and wanted to use the popular disqus system since it supports a many ways of logging in and has many parameters. I couldn’t find much help on ways to implement the system, so after a few hours of trial and error, I have finally figured out how to get the disqus comment system working with WP-Ecommerce.
1.) Create a Disqus Account and add your website to the account.
2.) After you finish registering and setting up the account, navigate over the the Install Tab and Select the “Universal Code” and Copy the ‘Embed Code’ that the disqus site gives you.
3.) Next, you will need to edit the Header.php file of your current wordpress theme that is in use. (wp-content/themes/yourcurrenttheme/header.php)
4.) Open the php file with Dreamweaver or a Text Editor to modify the code.
5.) Use Insert the portion of the Embed Code that is highlighted in red and insert it just above the closing </head> tag.
6.) Next its time to place the the remaining small portion of code(highlighted in blue) inside of the WP E-commerce plug-ins. Make sure you have moved your WPEC theme files over to the uploads folder. The path should be something like ( wp-content/uploads/wpsc/theme/your_current_theme) If they are not there, you can move them in the setting panel in under your WP E-commerce tab in the WordPress Dashboard.
7.)In your theme folder. (i’m using a heavily modified iShop theme) you should see a file named single_product.php or wpsc-single_product.php. Open it with a text editor to start editing.
8.) Look for the Shopping Cart Symbol php method. It should be right around line 176. Once you find it insert the portion of code highlighted in blue “<div id=”disqus_thread”></div>” directly under it.
So it Should look something like this.
After that, you should see the disqus comment box DIRECTLY under your Add To Cart function on your Single Products page.
9.) Next we’re going to create a View Comments link to link to the Single product page on the main product page, you’ll need to open the products page php (highlighted in blue) file in your theme folder. And get your text editor ready for editing.
10.) You’ll need to call the permalink function and link it to text (or an Image if you want), so that it links to the single product and it’s comments. With your products_page, look for the “Add to Cart” function. It should be around line 195. Then add this line of code:
<a href=’<?php echo wpsc_the_the_product_permalink(); ?’> Your Text Link Here </a>
Of Course you would replace the “Your Text Link Here” part with whatever you desire. I personally created a custom .png button
, then I wrapped the code in a div so I could position the button in the theme css file. So Here is what my code looks like.
So, now my product list in my store looks like this.
This is just my way of doing it and it may not be the best. There is a way to get the Comment Count to show also, but I didn’t have time to implement it. If anybody has an alternative way of doing this or a better method, please leave a comment.
So here goes my first blog written completely on an iPad…
