Comments on: 6 Good Third-Party Commenting Systems

By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:20:32 +0000

In reply to ARforms. I have tried other services but I have always reverted back to the original WordPress commenting system.

By: ARforms

ARforms — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:14:03 +0000

great post. It is really a detailed comparison of the available famous commenting systems.
Thanks Kevin for comparing these third party commenting systems
But i loved Disqus it is awesome and most of the websites are using it.

By: Shubham Agrawal

Shubham Agrawal — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 11:26:36 +0000

Yeah, but in my mind and according to my own experience, Disqus is real good. I love that.

By: Shoukath

Shoukath — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 08:28:08 +0000

Hey,

this is really good tips thank you

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 08:36:54 +0000

Thanks Kevin for comparing these third party commenting systems
But i loved Disqus it is awesome and most of the websites are using it.

By: Elissa

Elissa — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:02:04 +0000

We’re throwing our hat in the ring with a new native WordPress commenting plugin (Epoch) that is realtime, cache friendly, and improves site performance. It’s free, too. Check it out at http://wptavern.com/postmatic-brings-100-realtime-commenting-to-wordpress-with-epoch-plugin

Here are some of the benefits of using Epoch:

1. Both loading comments and submitting comments are incredibly fast. Way faster than Disqus. Faster than any comment system we’ve seen.
2. For the first time someone can say this: running native WordPress commenting will actually increase your site performance.
3. It is fully CDN and cache compatible.
4. Commenting is realtime and updated without page refresh, all the while being incredibly gentle on the server.
5. Epoch offers three ways to integrate with your theme.
a. The first tries to continue using your existing comment template but giving you the performance gains.
b. The second overrides your comment template but inherits typography and colors from your theme.
c. The third totally replaces your comment template ala’ Disqus or Jetpack Comments.
6. Since it uses native commenting it is completely private. No farming of user data. No profiling. Your data stays on your server.
7. It’s compatible with dozens of other commenting plugins to add things like social login, toolbars, attachments, subscriptions…
8. Epoch and Postmatic are integrated to play well together. For example when leaving a comment in Epoch, Postmatic can pop up an optin modal prompting the commenter to subscribe to new post notifications with just one more click.

By: Kevin Muldoon

Kevin Muldoon — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:12:43 +0000

In reply to Daniel Keith.

Hi Daniel.

I am not sure if I would classify Jetpack as a third-party comment system.

It’s kind of in a grey area. Jetpack displays an iframe from WordPress.com, but all the comments are stored on your own WordPress database. Nothing is stored externally. So in that respect, Jetpack is more of a comment form replacement, not a complete commenting system.

It does, however, deserver to be mentioned, as it is a great option :)

Kevin

By: Daniel Keith

Daniel Keith — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 06:14:21 +0000

Hi there,
great post. It is really a detailed comparison of the available famous commenting systems.
But in my opinion, Jetpack should be added in this list. As it provides commenting system, makes a website mobile responsive and has many other customization options
So, it is a better alternative.

By: Rohit Singh

Rohit Singh — Tue, 26 May 2015 09:55:38 +0000

Thanks for letting me know all the various commenting system I think that disqus is the best and many big blogs are using disqus on their blogs and websites! Keep up the good work

By: Olexiy

Olexiy — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:31:51 +0000

Hi Kevin!
Thanks for the reviews

We have recently launched a premium-plugin for comments.
It has all the best features from the 3rd party commenting systems, but it’s a plugin that builds an advanced experience on top of the native WordPress commenting system. So you can customize it.

Here is the demo: https://decomments.com/demo