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Before we begin just heads up that this tutorial needs a paid plan on Webflow.
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In this video, we're going to learn how to embed Custom Code in Webflow website.
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Usually, this is used to insert a third party plugin anywhere on our page.
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For example, things like calendar components, appointment booking, timers and a lot more. This time
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we will install a commenting plugin on the blog post page.
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After this, you will pretty much know how to install any other plugin.
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Although, each plugin has their own specifications during installation. But those specifications are explained
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by the plugin providers themselves. Usually providing video tutorials, so once you know what happens on
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Webflow's site, it shouldn't be difficult to get yourself around the other plugins.
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The commenting plugin, that we'll be using is called Disqus.
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For starters, we need to create an account on Disqus and get instructions from there on how to install
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it in on our website.
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So go to Disqus.com, that  DISQUS.com and click Get Started. Then sign up.
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Next, you'll get to this gate asking you, if you want to install it on the website. So yeah, choose that.
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Up next some basic site info like name and category.
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Disqus has a free version with ads and paid packets without ads. For any website, in the beginning, free
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version is absolutely fine.
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That's what I always start with for my clients until there is a big enough traffic to switch to the
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paid version, which doesn't cost much anyways.
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Obviously that's for the clients to pay, not us.
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Next, you'll get this screen to choose a platform.
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These platforms offer direct integrations, but Webflow isn't on the list. Webflow doesn't usually have
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any direct plug and play integrations with other platforms and plugins, where you can just click few
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buttons and start using the plugin.
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That's expected because Webflow is a little different from others, it's more like coding a website from
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scratch. And we can manually install the plugin with an ease. So scroll down on the bottom of this list
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and select manual installation.
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We'll get this custom code that needs to be inserted directly on our blog post page.
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Now, let's copy this code and head to Webflow.
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We're going to add a new div block inside our container.
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And from the elements panel add a new element called embed.
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You will instantly open up that code editor, so paste your code in here. For a lot of plugins,
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that's it.
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This is where it ends. But not for Disqus.
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There are a couple edits we have to make to the code itself.
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First, let's see how it all looks.
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Note, that custom code embeds usually you cannot see inside the editor or the preview mode. Only on
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the published website.
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Webflow doesn't run the code, to make sure it doesn't clash with the Designer.
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On the live site it's visible, all fine.
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That message box on top is only visible to us because we're admins of the site.
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It's asking us, if we want to enable reactions on our site.
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Maybe later.
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So that's how it's going to look like, but not yet fully functional. Right now it's static, so it's only
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going to work on this particular page. And every other comment that we will make on other pages,
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it's going to be the same, because we haven't really connected this to our CMS.
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Let's go back to the code and see what we need to change.
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If you double click on the Embed element, code editor will open up.
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This is a JavaScript code and inside the code there are comments that tell us exactly what we need to
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change. First comment says that we need to replace page URL and second tells us to replace page identifier.
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We just need to make those two changes and then uncomment that section. In JavaScript these symbols,
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which is slash and the star or two slashes, create comments. But that section is part of the code, so we
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need to uncomment it. Otherwise it's not going to run.
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It's quite simple.
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They are currently wrapped inside the symbols. One in the beginning, one after that.
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If we remove both, it will turn into functional code.
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You'll notice this by color change.
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Next, we need to replace page URL. The page URL needs to be dynamic.
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It's the URL of the particular blog post. Since we are doing this on a dynamic page,
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on top of this code editor, we have this button to add a field. Similar as we had inside SEO settings,
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if you remember. One of the options is a slug.
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This is what comes after the final slash in the URL.
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In our case, after blog slash. We can use that to create the URL value.
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We just need to manually insert everything that comes in front of that slug, and then add slug right
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next to it.
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So Webflow will insert the rest of the URL automatically.
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Just make sure to put this inside single quotes.
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That's just how JavaScript works, in this case.
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The page identifier needs to be some unique value that each blog post gets assigned.
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We can again use slug for this. Because the slug will always going to be unique for each blog post.
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In this case, just the slug is enough.
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And don't forget to wrap it inside single quotes.
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Just final thing to make sure, inside the section below check if the URL of your Disqus site is
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correct.
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Sometimes, depending where you copied this code from, instead of your site name it might say,
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Example.disqus.com
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ya di da.
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If that's the case, you'll need to replace that with a short name of your site. Which you can find here
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inside Disqus admin.
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Under General Tab.
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Just copy this and replace the word example with it. To create a proper URL.
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And that's all.
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Publish the changes and test the commenting on different blog posts.
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Works only on the live site. Preview mode is not going to show it.
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This was probably the most complicated plugging installation.
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Other plugins are usually simpler than this.
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Now that you know how to do this, all other plugins should be simple enough.
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If you ever get stuck, ask for help on Webflow forums, community there is very helpful.
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You can even tag me on your post to get my help too. My handle on the forums is Vako_Shvili.