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• J$ Posts: 30Members

  April 2010

  on 1272094678:

  I downloaded 4.4 RC1 to try out the new commenting system. I really like what I see so far. The only problem I'm having is the comments section isn't immediately under the post unless the post is longer than the sidebar content. There's a huge blank section, then the comments. This is especially noticeable on a shorter blog posts. Is this a bug or some setting I need to change?

  
  I had this problem too but it turned out that it only affected me and only when I was logged into disqus as the comments administrator. Others who looked at the page found it looked normal to them. Perhaps if you log out of disqus and then go look at the page while logged out it will appear differently.
  
  Something else I did along the way (don't know if it made a difference or not but have left it in anyhow) was add this code to the page inspector under CSS:
  
  #dsq-comments-title { clear:none !important;}
  #dsq-content .dsq-options { clear:none !important;}
  
  It was supposed to address the disqus placement issue. Even with that code in the add-a-comment box still appears way down at the bottom of the page for me, but that's only when I'm logged in as comments admin. To everyone else who uses the site the box is where it should be.
• Brent Hobbs Posts: 5Members

  April 2010

  on 1272136516:

  I had this problem too but it turned out that it only affected me and only when I was logged into disqus as the comments administrator. Others who looked at the page found it looked normal to them. Perhaps if you log out of disqus and then go look at the page while logged out it will appear differently.

  Thanks for the reply. In Firefox and Chrome I am not logged in as administrator but the problem still exists; so that doesn't seem to the the issue in my case. I may try adding the code you mentioned to see if that helps.
  
  EDIT: I did add the code and it seems to be working now - even when I'm logged in as administrator. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will continue to work and that's the only solution I'll need. Thanks!
  
  Steps for anyone else having this issue:
  1. Highlight the blog page you want to edit in the left hand column.
  2. Click on Page Info at the top right.
  3. In the Page Info window, click on Header.
  4. About halfway down there are some tabs, the second one is "CSS", click on it.
  5. Paste the following code in that text box:

  #dsq-comments-title { clear:none !important;} 
  #dsq-content .dsq-options { clear:none !important;}
  

  
  Thanks again to J$ for the solution.
  
  EDIT #2:
  I found a solution for the moderator box continuing to show up below the sidebar... add one more line of code into the CSS section. Here's the total code now (3 lines, first two same as above, third line new):

  #dsq-comments-title { clear:none !important;} 
  #dsq-content .dsq-options { clear:none !important;}
  #dsq-thread-settings  { clear:none !important;}
  
• J$ Posts: 30Members

  May 2010

  I'm resurrecting this thread because disqus seems to have suddenly developed a problem again pushing the comments down to the bottom of the page below the end of the sidebar. I know this poster said the added code fixed the problem, but a visit to his site shows it's back again. And it's back again for my site:
  
  http://johnnydollar.us
  
  Where the comments had been appearing correctly for weeks, all of a sudden they are back down at the bottom of the page again.
  
  I don't know if this is a disqus problem but it certainly was triggered by something on their end so I assume it is. However other sites I have checked not built with RW seem to have the disqus comments behaving correctly. So it's possibly some sort of odd interaction? Dunno but I've submitted a ticket to disqus, and I hope someone at RMS can look into this as well. The lines of CSS that previously worked to keep the comments where they belong now don't do the trick. Thank you so much.
• Brent Hobbs Posts: 5Members

  May 2010

  Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't realize the problem had returned. I figured out a fix for this one too, try it and see if you have any luck with it too.
  
  Add this to the already listed lines of code:
  

  #dsq-content div { clear:none !important;}
  

  
  So the final product (three lines previously listed above plus the new line) ends up looking like this:

  #dsq-comments-title { clear:none !important;} 
  #dsq-content .dsq-options { clear:none !important;}
  #dsq-thread-settings  { clear:none !important;}
  #dsq-content div { clear:none !important;}
  

  
  Disqus/Rapidweaver developers,
  Could you get together on this? It's kind of annoying to try and keep figuring this out by ourselves!
• J$ Posts: 30Members

  May 2010

  Excellent; works for me too. Thanks, and yeah they should get together and figure out how to avoid this problem once and for all.