Engage by Disqus is the easiest-to-use and feature-rich commenting and community platform for publishers.

Engage offers robust administrative and moderation tools to help you keep your community vibrant and welcoming and to manage the data stored in Disqus.

Each section below contains best practices to consider when configuring your Engage forum. We recommend configuring your forum settings and planning your moderation practices to best suit your goals and the needs of your unique site/community. See the Ads Launch Pad for monetizing content.

The basic configuration details for a site include appearance settings, site information, and basic rules that apply to commenters on your site.

Learn more about updating your background color and other appearance tweaks.

What gets seen around the network.

Configure Disqus to appear in your community's preferred language.

Setting up automated rules that single out individuals or classes of users is a good way to make moderation easier. These guides provide an overview of how to use these features.

Set rules, add additional moderators/admins to your site, and restrict certain words.

Manage who is blocked from commenting and who can be immune from existing moderation rules.

Options targeted at advanced users or certain use cases.

How to upload a custom avatar for users who don't have one.

How to set categories and filter data with the API.

Set a trusted domain to keep your Disqus shortname from loading on unwanted sites.

How to use the moderation tools.

Moderate, get context, search and edit comments on your site through the moderation panel.

Take advantage of user reputation to help you moderate.

Moderate comments within the public discussion thread or from your inbox.

Disqus provides a number of tools to help you manage discussions on your site. This includes migrating, closing, importing/exporting or changing basic details about each.

Manage discussions individually by updating titles, URLs, authors and closing threads.

Change your site to a new address and comments went missing? Update them using any of the migration tools.

Import existing comments and discussions from another system.