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As Hugo is a static site generator, the content produced is static and doesn’t interact with the users. The most common interaction people ask for is comment capability.
Hugo ships with support for disqus, a third party service that provides comment and community capabilities to website via javascript.
Your theme may already support disqus, but even it if doesn’t it is easy to add.
Disqus Support
Adding Disqus to a template
Hugo comes with all the code you would need to include load disqus. Simply include the following line where you want your comments to appear
{{ template "_internal/disqus.html" . }}
Configuring Disqus
That template requires you to set a single value in your site config file, eg. config.yaml.
disqusShortname = "XYW"
Additionally you can optionally set the following in the front matter for a given piece of content
- disqus_identifier
- disqus_title
- disqus_url
Alternatives
A few alternatives exist to Disqus.
Kaiju is a open source project started by spf13 (Hugo’s author) to bring easy and fast real time discussions to the web.
Written using Go, Socket.io and MongoDB it is very fast and easy to deploy.
It is in early development but shows promise.. If you have interest please help by contributing whether via a pull request, an issue or even just a tweet. Everything helps.