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As I was searching for easy workarounds in the internet for Tumblr Comments (obviously, Tumblr does not have the comment feature enabled automatically on their themes), I found some sites saying that they have used Disqus and have so far loved using it.

So I gave it a try and in less than 3 minutes I was good to go! My friends can now add comments on my ever-so-mushy-dedicated-to-my-girlfriend Tumblr Blog. The instructions on how to put Disqus is really very straightforward and they have the instructions on their site. For the sake of everybody, I’m going to put the steps below:

1. Login to your Disqus account (If you don’t have one, obviously you need to signup for one)

2. If you just started the account, you will be asked what platform you are using, in this case select Tumblr.

3. Now, Log into your Tumblr account to edit your theme and select Custom HTML.

4. Paste the following code so that it is right before

{/block:Posts}. This adds a comment counter/permalink.

<p style="font-size: 10px; text-align: left"><a href="{Permalink}#disqus_thread">Comments (View)</a></p>

5. Then, paste the below Disqus Code for Tumblr somewhere after {/block:Posts}

{block:Permalink}<script type="text/javascript">var disqus_url = "{Permalink}";

var disqus_title ="{block:PostTitle}{PostTitle}{/block:PostTitle}";</script>

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>

<script src="http://disqus.com/forums/xxxxx/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<a href="http://disqus.com" class="dsq-brlink">blog comments powered by <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span></a>

{/block:Permalink}

<script type="text/javascript">

//<![CDATA[

(function() {

   var links = document.getElementsByTagName(\'a\');

   var query = \'?\';

   for(var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {

     if(links[i].href.indexOf(\'#disqus_thread\') >= 0) {

       query += \'url\' + i + \'=\' + encodeURIComponent(links[i].href) + \'&\';

     }

   }

   document.write(\'<script type="text/javascript"

src="http://disqus.com/forums/xxxxx/get_num_replies.js\' + query + \'"></\' + \'script>\');

 })();

//]]>

</script>