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In the process of getting my new Joomla! based website up and running, I wanted to add a comment system. As usual, every free option available had it's own quirks. Some had visual issues, some didn't support threaded replies, and some had conflicts with other Joomla extensions I was using. I ended up liking the DISQUS comment system for Joomla! v1.1 by JoomlaWorks. It integrates the free comment management system, DISQUS, into a site's articles. While I did have to tweak my site template a bit to prevent its JavaScript generated content from drawing over my footer, it covered the rest of my needs.

After testing out the plugin for a while, I started to notice a large issue. Anytime an article was viewed with a different URL, it ended up using a different comment thread. In Joomla!, articles can be seen under different URLs for a number of reasons including changing search engine friendly (SEF) URL settings, recategorizing an article, changing your menu, or viewing an article split into multiple pages. Dissapointed to find yet another problematic plugin, I decided to find the root of the problem and fix it.