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title: Comments
linktitle: Comments
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
keywords: [sections,content,organization]
categories: [project organization, fundamentals]
menu:
docs:
parent: "content-management"
weight: 140
weight: 140 #rem
draft: false
aliases: [/extras/comments/]
toc: true
---
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
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Disqus comments require you set a single value in your [site's configuration file][configuration] like so:
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{{< code-toggle copy="false" >}}
disqusShortname = "yourdiscussshortname"
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{{</ 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_identifier`
* `disqus_title`
* `disqus_url`
### Render Hugo's Built-in Disqus Partial Template
See [Partial Templates][partials] to learn how to add the Disqus partial to your Hugo website's templates.
## Comments Alternatives
There are a few alternatives to commenting on static sites for those who do not want to use Disqus:
* [Static Man](https://staticman.net/)
* [txtpen](https://txtpen.com)
* [IntenseDebate](http://intensedebate.com/)
* [Graph Comment][]
* [Muut](http://muut.com/)
* [isso](http://posativ.org/isso/) (Self-hosted, Python)
* [Tutorial on Implementing Isso with Hugo][issotutorial]
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<!-- * [Kaiju](https://github.com/spf13/kaiju) -->
<!-- ## Kaiju
[Kaiju](https://github.com/spf13/kaiju) is an open-source project started by [spf13](http://spf13.com/) (Hugos author) to bring easy and fast real time discussions to the web.
Written using Go, Socket.io, and [MongoDB][], Kaiju is very fast and easy to deploy.
It is in early development but shows promise. If you have interest, please help by contributing via pull request, [opening an issue in the Kaiju GitHub repository][kaijuissue], or [Tweeting about it][tweet]. Every bit helps. -->
[configuration]: /getting-started/configuration/
[disquspartial]: /templates/partials/#disqus
[disqussetup]: https://disqus.com/profile/signup/
[forum]: https://discourse.gohugo.io
[front matter]: /content-management/front-matter/
[Graph Comment]: https://graphcomment.com/
[kaijuissue]: https://github.com/spf13/kaiju/issues/new
[issotutorial]: https://stiobhart.net/2017-02-24-isso-comments/
[partials]: /templates/partials/
[MongoDB]: https://www.mongodb.com/
[tweet]: https://twitter.com/spf13