description: Hugo ships with an internal Disqus template, but this isn't the only commenting system that will work with your new Hugo website.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-03-09
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categories: [project organization, fundamentals]
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Hugo ships with support for [Disqus](https://disqus.com/), a third-party service that provides comment and community capabilities to websites via JavaScript.
Your theme may already support Disqus, but if not, it is easy to add to your templates via [Hugo's built-in Disqus partial][disquspartial].
## Add Disqus
Hugo comes with all the code you need to load Disqus into your templates. Before adding Disqus to your site, you'll need to [set up an account][disqussetup].
### Configure Disqus
Disqus comments require you set a single value in your [site's configuration file][configuration] like so:
{{<code-togglecopy="false">}}
disqusShortname = "yourdiscussshortname"
{{</code-toggle>}}
For many websites, this is enough configuration. However, you also have the option to set the following in the [front matter][] of a single content file:
Disqus has its own [internal template](https://gohugo.io/templates/internal/#disqus) available, to render it add the following code where you want comments to appear:
```
{{ template "_internal/disqus.html" . }}
```
## Comments Alternatives
There are a few alternatives to commenting on static sites for those who do not want to use Disqus:
