New: Disqus WordPress Plugin v3.1

Today we're very excited to announce the latest version of the Disqus WordPress plugin... say hello to v3.1!

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New: Disqus WordPress Plugin v3.1
Introducing 2 Open Source Project Management Tools for Modern Development Teams

Introducing 2 Open Source Project Management Tools for Modern Development Teams

Here at Disqus, we use Trello as our project management tool of choice. Trello lets us plan out our projects in ways that make sense to both developers and product managers. Trello’s Power-Ups library let us integrate Trello with our other existing tools so that they can work seamlessly together. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing two internal tools our team uses to get more done with Trello.
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3 Steps to Growing Returning Engagers

3 Steps to Growing Returning Engagers

In part one of this series on using Audience Analytics to turn your readers into loyal engagers, we shared strategies for getting readers to engage for the first time. Today, we’re going to talk about the different ways for keeping readers engaged and coming back.
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Turning Readers into Engagers

Turning Readers into Engagers

A couple of weeks ago we released Audience Analytics to help remove some of the mystery around the people who engage on your website.
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What We're Reading

What We're Reading

At Disqus, we love to stay up to date with the latest news, events, and trends in the world of digital publishing. It helps us to understand the challenges that today’s publisher face and better support them with new tools and strategies. Team members across sales, customer success, product, marketing, and engineering regularly share their favorite stories. We even have an internal slack channel devoted to sharing the latest, most relevant, and most interesting articles that are impacting the digital publishing industry.
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Poll: Why Do You Subscribe to Email Newsletters?

Poll: Why Do You Subscribe to Email Newsletters?

You don't have to go very far on most publisher sites these days before you're asked to subscribe to an email newsletter. Maybe you've noticed this already while reading your favorite food blog or catching up on the top stories from a local news site. You can even find an example right here on the Disqus Blog. Just scroll to the end of any article and you'll see a prompt appear inviting you to subscribe to our newsletter (please do if you like 😃).
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Introducing the New Disqus Audience Analytics

Introducing the New Disqus Audience Analytics

Developing effective strategies for increasing reader engagement shouldn’t feel like guesswork. If you don’t know who your most avid readers are, the impact of your engagement efforts, or understand how your community is growing over time, that ends today.
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Disqus for WordPress 3 Plugin is Now Available

Disqus for WordPress 3 Plugin is Now Available

It’s here! 🎉 After months in beta testing, the Disqus for WordPress 3 plugin is now available to download in the WordPress Plugin repository. Version 3.0 introduces several notable improvements including an overhaul to Commenting Syncing, a new Automatic Installation feature, and a redesigned plugin settings page. In addition, we completely rewrote the plugin to utilize the latest WordPress APIs so that we can deliver you more frequent updates and new features in the future.
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Community Spotlight: Discuss Disqus

Community Spotlight: Discuss Disqus

Disqus is designed to help publishers build on-site engagement and retain loyal audiences. We know firsthand from our conversations with you that a lot of hard work goes into this process. That’s why our Publisher Success team is constantly thinking about how we can make your life easier as a publisher. A big part of our strategy is to arm you with information about our product the moment you need it most.
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Get More Done With Our Updated Zapier Integration

Get More Done With Our Updated Zapier Integration

Recently, we released a new Email Subscription feature to help publishers grow their email lists. Many of you requested a way to automatically import new subscribers into your email marketing provider. Today, we’re excited to announce an update to our Zapier integration to automate this task and help you get more done with Disqus. Zapier allows you to easily create workflows to connect all your favorite apps (over 1,000 to be exact) to do just about anything. Best of all, Zapier requires zero technical knowledge to get up-and-running.
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How Publishers Are Growing Their Email List Using Disqus

How Publishers Are Growing Their Email List Using Disqus

More than ever, we see publishers investing in building direct connections with their readers to cultivate stronger relationships. With the threat of Facebook’s pivot away from publishers, publishers are increasing their investment in on-site engagement, email newsletters, and subscriptions where they own the relationship with their readers.
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Facebook Will De-emphasize Publisher Content: What This Means For Publishers And What They Can Do To Maintain Traffic

Facebook Will De-emphasize Publisher Content: What This Means For Publishers And What They Can Do To Maintain Traffic

Last Thursday Facebook shook up the publishing world when it announced plans to make the largest change in years to their News Feed. Going forward Facebook will prioritize content that users share over all other content. This means that, as early as this week, users will start to see less publisher content and more content from their friends and families.
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