Comments enabled!
I've enabled comments on this blog using Giscus. It was pretty simple; here are the steps.
Make sure your blog or site is properly prepared
Your site or blog will need to ensure the following:
- GitHub discussions must be enabled, typically with a category just for your blog/site
- The Giscus app must be installed on the organization (see below)
- The repository must be public
Follow the instructions!
The landing page for Giscus gives instructions for how to configure it for your site. Follow
these instructions; they're quite straightforward! After entering your configuration on the page, you will get
a chunk of HTML (specifically, a <script> tag) that you'll need to copy.
Add a layout template
If you're like me, you are using the default blog post layout (aka :theme/post).
In order to add comments, you need to customize this layout a bit.
I added a file to my project called templates/layouts/post.html.
The content of that file will look something like this:
---
layout: :theme/post
---
{@io.quarkiverse.roq.frontmatter.runtime.model.DocumentPage page}
{#insert /}
{#article-end}
<div class="giscus"></div>
<script blah blah blah>
</script>
{/}
Paste your <script> tag over the one in the snippet above.
Update your posts
If you already had a customized layout for posts, you don't need to do this step.
Otherwise, if your post layout is set to layout: :theme/post, you'll need to go into each post's front matter
and replace the layout with layout: post.
That's pretty much all I had to do. But I might tinker with things in the future; feel free to peruse the repository for this blog to see how I've done things - either for your own reference, or to tell me what I've done wrong!
