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].
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:
* [Tutorial on Implementing Isso with Hugo][issotutorial]
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Written using Go, Socket.io, and [MongoDB][], Kaiju is very fast and easy to deploy.
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