It’s cool function to have reader comments on your posts in github. So I decided to have this function from disqus in my page as well. I searched on the tutorial about how to add but actually they’re not all giving the same script, I first follow the official way to setup which is well documented, then I checked another github blog how he uses, it’s better in my opinion.

First I need to register a disqus account and then follow get started section to add my github url into disqus and complete the 3 steps setup.

step1

step2

step3

Example of universal embeded code:

<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script>

/**
*  RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION VARIABLES: EDIT AND UNCOMMENT THE SECTION BELOW TO INSERT DYNAMIC VALUES FROM YOUR PLATFORM OR CMS.
*  LEARN WHY DEFINING THESE VARIABLES IS IMPORTANT: https://disqus.com/admin/universalcode/#configuration-variables*/
/*
var disqus_config = function () {
this.page.url = /jekyll/disqus/comments/layout/2017/05/26/disqus-comments.html;  // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable
this.page.identifier = /jekyll/disqus/comments/layout/2017/05/26/disqus-comments; // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page's unique identifier variable
};
*/
(function() { // DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
var d = document, s = d.createElement('script');
s.src = 'https://https-ydd9-github-io.disqus.com/embed.js';
s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date());
(d.head || d.body).appendChild(s);
})();
</script>
<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="https://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>

Variables defined by Jekyll and used in configuration

Disqus required variables

Variables declairation rules

extra: Example to add comments counts on my page

<script id="dsq-count-scr" src="//https-ydd9-github-io.disqus.com/count.js" async></script>

step extra

Other user’s way I think it’s better

You defined a default layout for your web, then create a post layout based on default, this post layout should have a header, i.e. about, title, date, comments count, … and after contents, it should have a disqus comments. When you add a new post, just specify “comments: true” in the YAML Front Formatter.

For disqus comments, you need to specify it inside _includes/disqus.html its “config”