Jekyll Bootstrap—commenting function without advertisement - jekyll

I have just started using Jekyll Bootstrap to blog related to my GitHub projects. I would like to have a feedback option, so I kept the default Disqus enabled. Unfortunately that pastes nasty "Around The Web" and "Also on jekyll-bootstrap" sections below my posts, the former apparently filled with unrelated sponsored links. I have a very strong hygiene when it comes to keeping my content spam free.
Can I remove the advertisement which seems from the Diqus script somehow? If not, are there other alternatives of adding a commenting function without advertisement?

Log in to Disqus.
Select Admin.
Select the Settings tab.
Select the Discovery tab.
Change the Discovery level to "Just Comments".

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Redirecting Posts on Tumblr to Custom Pages

Now before you post one of the many "Add a Page" tutorials I've read, I'm going to say that none of those have helped because not only has Tumblr removed the "Redirect" option on it (courtesy of April 8th, 2015, unfortunately), but the add a page feature does not seem to work when using a custom HTML code--even when you use the "add a page" link that you created and paste it into the link url section provided for the tabs!
Of course, I have also looked at questions on here, but those pertain to loops leading back to the Home page, and do not specify how to have your posts redirected to a specific page. Believe me, I have tried the whole /tagged/yourname URLS under the URL section for the Link, but that is ineffective. I have even tried giving the post a Custom URL and then pasting that URL into the designated link URL section to see if it would pop up under the page but alas, that did not work either. And yes, I've even scoured through the code to find a possible paste solution and have pasted the link into the code directly, but that didn't change anything either as it was just under the "naming" section in the beginning of the code, anyways (should've known that wouldn't work).
If anyone can help me with this issue, or at least understand what I'm even asking, I would be forever grateful.
EFFORT FURTHER EXPLAINED:
Note: the tumblr's /submit URL works, but my attempts on, for eg, a separate art page for posts tagged "somethingart" have been fails.
Redirect: Here's an example of one of the many tutorials I read that has a clear image of where the "redirect" option should be, but of course it's outdated as the edit appearance looks slightly different from that now (you have to scroll down a little).
Okay, so let's move on to the other attempts now although, unfortunately, you're going to have to view them on a google document because apparently, you need to have 10+ reputation to post more than two links (click the link above)!
As for the coding part, well I'm actually a beginner at coding as I've only had two classes last semester (which was a while ago), and that was in C# and the foundations of computer science, so scouring through this code to try and find where I could add something to make it work only gave me a headache in the end (it's really long...).
I think I get you now. As a new account some features are not yet available to you. You will get those features eventually. For now (from what you have in the pictures):
The link (link6 URL) went to home page (or to the error page) most probably because you did not have http:// in the beginning. I said that by assuming how your theme is made based on the picture of 'Theme Options'.
After that is solved, you know the page would not redirect itself to your "tagged/something" page because it is not a "Redirect" page, and you do not have any script to do the redirection (if you do not actually).
Do not worry though, there is a better way; just have the "tagged/something" link directly in your "Link6 URL" option (as in the pictures). You have to put it something like; http://yourblog.tumblr.com/tagged/something.
Let me know if you have any questions?

Mediawiki - Automatic two-way links between page sections

I want my MediaWiki install to have two classes of pages. (In the users' eyes - the wiki won't have to know the difference.)
I want some pages to be on topics, and others on sources (name of book, video, etc.)
I want to have a topic page "FAA Licenses" like:
==Medical Certificates==
===3rd Class===
Required for student license, and before student solo flights. {{{link/reference/whatever generally around here to Jeppesen Book#pg27-28}}}
And a source page "Jeppesen Book" like:
==pg27-28==
{{{link to FAA Licenses#3rd Class}}}
These source pages will track the source's (book or video) content. I imagine a source page for a book to have page numbers, and for a video to have start and stop times, or section numbers. (The book or video itself won't be on the source pages.)
So, the source pages will really serve two purposes. First, it will be fairly easy to see which parts of the sources have had notes taken and put into the topic pages. (So non-linear note-taking of sources will be easy -- skipping from source to source on topics, rather than digesting an entire source at once.) Second, it will be easy from a topic page to see where to go back to for a more in-depth review.
There's two issues I'm writing about.
(1) I want the workflow to be the user edits the topic page, putting in links to source pages and sections. I want this one user-addition to automatically make the source page link back to this spot. I want the system to handle the two-way-linking, assuming the user won't be perfect.
(2) I want the user to be able to put links in the topic page to source pages and sections that might not exist yet. I'd need those links to show up as red, to indicate they need to be created. But, still, once created, I want the system to handle the two-way-linking, even if there were multiple red links to the same area. (I could see building up quite a few red links, then having an unorganized "purge" of them by creating the missing pages and sections, and don't want to have to search for all the links to the new areas.) Ideally, I'd love for these source pages to be auto-generated -- so pages and sections were made as links were made to them, and automatically deleted (or at least the backlinks removed) as links were removed to them.
I don't think the MediaWiki what links here functionality does the job. I want this to work on a per-section rather than per-page basis. And, I don't want the user to have to add to each section a "what links here tag" -- I want it to be automatic.
The extension Semantic MediaWiki will allow you to get bidirectional linking in a semi-automatic fassion.
https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Link_Template
shows a high level example.
If you dig deeper into SMW and SemanticForms you'll find how with e.g. SemanticForms you can get a user experience that is close to what you are asking for.
See e.g. http://smw.referata.com/wiki/Discourse_DB and http://www.discoursedb.org/wiki/Main_Page for an application of these principles.
I don't think there is an easy way to do that. You could write an extension that provides a parser function that your users can enter, save the source page + source section + target page + target section in a database at links update, then use the ParserSectionCreate hook to show links based on that. Or you can create two types of templates and write a bot that keeps them in sync.

How to embed/integrate WordPress blog into my own web site?

I have a WordPress blog account already (abc.wordpress.com). And I have my own web site: www.xyz.com
I would like to integrate my WordPress blog content into my own site. Hopefully something like blog.xyz.com or just replace the home page of xyz.com with abc.wordpress.com
I know that I can download WordPress' code from wordpress.org and run my own WordPress. And having my own MySQL database, but WordPress is always releasing new code. I don't have the time to keep updating the source on my end to match it.
I'm running my own site as a hobby, so I prefer to let WordPress.com to manage the content for me and continue reuse my own blog at abc.wordpress.com, but make the content show up in my own site: xyz.com
I hope I was clear when explaining this.
Anyone knows a way to do this?
Thanks.
If your main worry is about the updates, I would say don't be. A simple click of the 'Updates' button in the wordpress admin is all you need to do in order to apply the updates for wordpress. A notification will pop up alerting you of any updates.
And as Calle has already mentioned, you can retrieve your content via RSS, or you could just export your current content from Wordpress.com, import the content into your own site, and manage it there. Everything would be in one spot.
Good Luck.
I don't know how good you are with programming but there's a PHP library called Simple Pie which would help you retrieve your content via RSS (which Wordpress automatically generates for you). The adress is here: http://simplepie.org/
If you are not very good with programming, perhaps you can get someone to do it for you or find a script which is already written somewhere. I do think RSS is definitely the best way to go.
I also think you exaggerate the problems of hosting Wordpress yourself. It's not something that you have to keep updated with, and if you want to, all you have to do is log in from time to time, perhaps once a month (how often are you writing articles?), and click "update" and Wordpress will do everything for you. Both for your plugins and WP version.
For the ability to use your own domain (xyz.com) and have wordpress redirect users from abc.wordpress.com(your wordpress blog) to your domain requires a premium account.
If you have a premium account then you can just log in to wordpress.com, click 'upgrades' and select 'domains'. From there you will see the option "Map an Existing Domain" and you will want to enter your domain here. Now your wordpress.com blog is what will show when users enter your domain's url (xyz.com).
Alternatively, if you need a workaround with a free wordpress.com account then you want to just embed your blog and for that you will need to use an RSS feed. Note: this method will not maintain your wordpress styles it will merely transport the content. Also by default not all browsers support RSS feeds.
You can view your blog's current feed by adding 'feed' to the end of your wordpress.com url, i.e. abc.wordpress.com/feed. You can read more about feeds here (http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/). Now you are just left with the task of figuring out how to embed the feed into your page.
One final hail-mary you might attempt is just redirecting your domain to your blog. Reference on how to do this different ways here: (http://css-tricks.com/redirect-web-page/). Example, place this tag in the section of your domains pages:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL='http://google.com'" />
(this will redirect after 0 seconds to the specified url)

Mediawiki: configuring the entry page, adding a new page

Have a wiki installed in our organization, and want to start using it.
Failed to find the answers for the next 2 basic questions:
How do I configure the entry page to show a list of all existing pages
How do I create a new page (!). Only succeeded doing it by typing a url of an non existing page. Guess there are nicer methods for this
Thanks
Gidi
For how to show a list of all pages, look at DynamicPageList, which is part of MediaWiki. (There's a more advanced third-party version, but it's not needed for such a simple task.)
Creating a new page really is exactly as you said: Type a URL and save some edits. Most beginning editors will edit a link into a page, and then use that link to browse to the page, so that they don't accidentally forget the spelling and lose the page to the Ether. (Of course it would show up in the recently edited and other special pages.)
This is more of a webapps.stackexchange.com question though.

GOOGLE: how to prevent subpages from appearing in results

I have a fairly new website which allows people to create their own profiles and such. The issue is that when someone links to their profile from their website/blog, their profile shows up in google searches for my website - and to date the one person who has done this has a NSFW profile. Which means, when you search for my site on Google one of the top results is a NSFW page.
How do I prevent google from listing subpages in the results? Would robots.txt solve this? And if a page is already listed, will adding an entry in robots.txt disallowing access to profile pages in general end up removing it from the results?
robots.txt will solve it to some extent. If there are direct external links, then I have found that google still indexes them.
Go to http://webmaster.google.com, get your website claimed, and then use their URL removal tool.
Yes, see http://www.robotstxt.org/. Just list things like "Disallow: /profile/" etc and google will stop indexing them and after a time, remove them.