Hyvor Talk Blog

A Comprehensive Guide to getting Started on Google Search Console (in 2020)

What exactly does Google Search Console (GSC) do? GSC is capable of doing a myriad of things. It is a system that offers you tips, tricks, and a list of to-do’s for improving your site’s performance in the Google search engine. It scours technical issues; monitors your AMP results; improves structured data; finds your top search queries and SEO pages; and tells you how to improve your SEO results.  GSC (known as Google Webmaster Tools) Read more…

By Rohitha Perera, ago

Should I Pre- or Post- Moderate Comments?

Whether you are an individual blogger, a team, or a news organization you have to choose between pre- or post- moderation when you add comments to your website. What is Pre-Moderation? Pre-moderation means that all the comments are posted only after the approval of the moderators. What is Post-Moderation? Post-moderation means that all comments go live as soon as users publish them. After that, moderators spend some time removing the unwanted comments. Pre- vs Post-Moderation: Read more…

By Supun Kavinda, ago

How to Choose a Commenting Platform for News Sites

This guide will help you understand what you should consider when choosing a commenting platform for news sites. Comments are the voices of the readers of your website. If someone asks for a definition for comments, it could be given simply like this: Comments are the medium that connects a website’s owner/writers and the users/readers. Moreover, comments are the way that readers/users communicate with other readers/users as well as with the owner or the writers. Read more…

By Ishini Avindya, ago

How To Manage Comments On Blogger

The first time I tried Blogger was way back in 2010. If I had a DeLorean from that era, I’d be shocked to see how fluid and easy blogging has become today. The market leader when it comes to a blogging platform is WordPress with newcomers Ghost and Gatsby promising to be a thorn in its side. That said Blogger has been around long enough to make its presence felt. With a focus on ‘just blogging’, Blogger does its job well without any Read more…

By Rohitha Perera, ago

Comments with Single Sign-on using Hyvor Talk and Auth0

This guide will show you how to add comments to your blog or website with single sign-on using Hyvor Talk and Auth0. Hyvor Talk is a fully customizable commenting platform with all moderation tools you need. It supports two single sign-on (SSO) methods: Stateless and OpenID Connect-based. In this article, we are going to use OpenID Connect-based SSO with Auth0. Auth0 is an identity provider, and it is compatible with the OpenID Connect protocol. (If Read more…

By Supun Kavinda, ago

WordPress vs Ghost: What’s Better For Business Blogging?

This is a brief overview of whether WordPress or Ghost really is better for business blogging. Mid Covid-19, there’s a great movement of businesses moving online (in addition to some serious sales for online purchases at present) while ditching the whole conventional mode of doing business, which is the brick and mortar model. Now, with so many options available to go online, there is plenty of e-commerce solutions that can help your business reach the Internet masses.  We’ve structured Read more…

By Rohitha Perera, ago

Introducing New Analytics and Customization Options

New analytics and customization options are now available for all users! What’s new in Analytics? Up to this update, we only showed you the number of comments and page views your website got in a time period. Now, you can see them in a more comprehensive way with our new beautiful charts. In the analytics section of the console, you can see how your website performed in the following time periods. Today – Grouped by Read more…

By Supun Kavinda, ago

How to fix MYSQL Character Encoding Issues After Migration?

We recently performed a major migration that was stressful but helped us learn a lot of things in one day. One of the main problems we faced was MYSQL character encoding issues after the migration. Here’s how it happened. First, we exported our database. In this export file, non-ASCII characters were changed into some weird characters like “Венчур Д. Simply, all non-English comments were shown in this way. So, do we need to ask all Read more…

By Supun Kavinda, ago
Content Curation

What You Need to Know About Content Curation

As same as content marketing, content curation plays a major role in digital content management. However, many years ago, content curation was just a buzz word. But, today, it has become something special like many people search about; with the question “what do we need to know about content curating?” I am pretty sure you are one of them. This article will give you a clear answer to the above question. So why are you Read more…

By Ishini Avindya, ago

We moved from Hostinger to DigitalOcean

It has been 4 months since we started working on Hyvor Talk full-time. We have grown steadily and this month, we got clients with millions of traffic per month. We had no experience in handling high traffic. As a result, our servers went down when we got spikes in traffic. After trying different fixes, we finally made the decision to move from our previous host Hostinger to our new host DigitalOcean. This is our experience. Read more…

By Supun Kavinda, ago

How to Write Comments with Respect & Gratitude

We all have the experience of writing comments. If someone says that he/she never had an experience of writing comments that is totally weird.Because we are living in a world where Information and Communication Technology has become “Compulsory”. Actually, writing comments is art. Why it is said like that? Because they are used, in Appreciation to Giving Suggestion in giving reviews Art has its own discipline. So do Commenting. We have seen many people using Read more…

By Ishini Avindya, ago

How to Add Comments to Ghost Blog

Introduction to Ghost Platform Ghost introduces itself as “The #1 open-source headless Node.js CMS”. They have recently published version 3 and also have raised $5,000,000. People like the platform a lot. However, it does not have a commenting system by default. So, you can use a third-party commenting system to add comments feature to your Ghost blog. This will allow users to engage, share feedback, ask questions, and contribute to your content. Here are some famous commenting systems: Read more…

By Supun Kavinda, ago