Create your Disqus account

To add disqus comments to your octopress blog site. Visit Disqus to signup.

Remember to Verify your email address afterwards.

Create and Configure Disqus site

Login to your disqus account.
Create a New Site for comments.
Once done, go to your Settings tab.

http://shortname.disqus.com/admin/settings/general/.

Add your octopress site to the Website URL.

Click on the advanced tab, and add your octopress domain to the Trusted Domains.

Save the changes.

Add the Disqus ID to Octopress config file

Open the octopress config file and add your username to it.

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:~$ cd octopress
:~$ vi _config.yml

disqus_short_name: my_disqus_userid # replace it with the userid (not email address) you created in disqus
disqus_show_comment_count: true

Save the changes and run rake generate and rake deploy and there you go to start commenting.