disqus
WordPress plugin · detected on 77 sites in our index (1.45% of WordPress sites scanned)
Where disqus sits in the WordPress plugin ecosystem
disqus is the #147 most-detected WordPress plugin in our scan index of 5,328 sites — appearing on roughly 1.45% of WordPress sites we've fingerprinted. Most sites running disqus are hosted on WordPress.com (45% of identified hosts). The most common companion plugin is Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI, present on 81% of disqus sites. The most frequent theme is GeneratePress Child.
Every data point here comes from actual scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. We don't accept submissions; everything you see is detected automatically when a site is scanned through the tool.
Plugins commonly used with disqus
From co-occurrence analysis across sites running disqus in our index.
- Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI81% of disqus sites · 62 sites
- Redirection57% of disqus sites · 44 sites
- Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth44% of disqus sites · 34 sites
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection40% of disqus sites · 31 sites
- wpcom39% of disqus sites · 30 sites
- Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS39% of disqus sites · 30 sites
- my-jetpack39% of disqus sites · 30 sites
- disqus-comment-system32% of disqus sites · 25 sites
Themes commonly running disqus
Top themes on sites using this plugin.
- GeneratePress Child8% of disqus sites · 6 sites
- Newspack Scott4% of disqus sites · 3 sites
- ninetofive4% of disqus sites · 3 sites
- PasteMagazine4% of disqus sites · 3 sites
- Hello Elementor3% of disqus sites · 2 sites
- MangaReader3% of disqus sites · 2 sites
Hosting providers running disqus
Limited to sites where we identified the hosting provider.
- WordPress.com45% · 5 sites
- Pantheon27% · 3 sites
- Kinsta18% · 2 sites
- Liquid Web9% · 1 site
Sites using disqus
Most-recently-scanned sites detected with this plugin.
- agilealliance.orgAgile Alliance · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- nintendoeverything.comne_new · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- cloudcone.comStack Child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- baseballamerica.comBaseball America · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- www2.ljworld.comcorev3_lazy · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- about.codecov.ioCodecov · Pantheon · scanned 2026-05-22
- mintpressnews.comcore · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- sciencebasedmedicine.orgpaperback-sbm-child · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- kprofiles.comherald · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- bmwblog.comwpDevel Production v2 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- channelstv.comChannelsTV2016 · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
- imaging-resource.comImaging Resource · host unknown · scanned 2026-05-22
How we detect disqus
Five-vector detection — /wp-content/plugins/disqus/ asset paths, /wp-json/ REST API namespaces, HTML signature patterns, sitemap XML comments, and asset-probe HEAD requests against the top-100 popular plugins on wordpress.org. Each detected plugin carries provenance pills showing which sources corroborated it — cross-vector matches indicate high-confidence detections. More on how detection works.
Data comes from real-time scans of public WordPress sites — not vendor case studies or curated showcases. Every claim on this page traces back to a specific detection in our scan corpus, observable via our methodology. Affiliate links are disclosed per the affiliate disclosure.