IntenseDebate Comments

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1. ★★★★★ doniking

   3.5y ago

   the plugin was successfuly installed. But then I couldn’t enter the comment section. I registered, the registration email went to spam folder 🙂 and connect my WP installation with their API, ok now I can go to comment section, but it then still requires me to connect with their API. After connecting for the second time, an error page showed up saying “Connection refused”.

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2. ★★★★★ Dan Roundhill

   3.6y ago

   Thanks to whoever added the plugin icon. Much better!

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3. ★★★★★ Sabinooo

   10.5y ago

   My honest opinion, IntenseDebate was something awesome in the start, but sadly Automattic gave up on it, and with every month IntenseDebate is becoming something of the past. Now, there is no way to contact the support team, the development is abandoned, and the number of bugs is growing. I recently checked my website’s apache error log: GAZILLIONS of serious errors caused by incorrect SQL behaviour on the intensedebate end. This was terrible. Time to give up on it, adieu, this is a pity.

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4. ★★★★★ rafajaques

   10.6y ago

   The plugin works fine, even with the latest release of WordPress. But it does not work very well (intensedebate login) when using Rocket Loader (JS).

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5. ★★★★★ Ham Sammich

   11.3y ago

   Can’t log into my comments page in the WP admin to moderate comments – keeps asking me to log in to IntenseDebate no matter how many times I do. Tried resetting the plugin, reimporting comments, and then finally deleting and reinstalling the plugin entirely. Now it just sits there saying “Queued, waiting for import” on the settings page. I tried contacting support at IntenseDebate.com, but received no reply. Going to look into switching to Disqus, I guess.

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6. ★★★★★ happyorright

   11.6y ago

   I had to quickly disable this plugin. I don’t remember the exact error but it was unusable. Chimacintosh

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7. ★★★★★ Elmagnifico

   12.7y ago

   I am so sorry, but i will not let you generate traffic using my site and redirecting my users to your site! this system is for small and trial sites that doesn’t care about their name or reputation, not for sites that cares who visits them, i looked everywhere for an option that lets me disable the ‘view intense database profile’ and it was nowhere to be found! i think it’s really unprofessional to have that, i’m sorry but you don’t deserve more than one star for this move. Uninstalled and forgotten.

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8. ★★★★★ p.law

   13.0y ago

   Some html parsing is broken (don’t try putting an image tag after a link in the same comment), prone to seemingly random errors, only a tiny handful of plugins, terrible documentation, the list goes on and on.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-15 600+ → 500+ down after 32 days in tier
2. 2025-12-14 500+ → 600+ up after 11 days in tier
3. 2025-12-03 600+ → 500+ down after 369 days in tier
4. 2024-11-29 700+ → 600+ down after 253 days in tier
5. 2024-03-21 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-03-20 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-03-19 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-03-18 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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IntenseDebate Comments: 500+ active installs, 2.2★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/intensedebate