posts/2021-11-24_using-giscus/

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posts/2021-11-24_using-giscus/

How to use the giscus commenting system on a Distill blog

https://www.joelnitta.com/posts/2021-11-24_using-giscus/

[shannonpileggi]

Hi Joel! Thanks for this great post! I was just considering switching to utterances, and I hadn't yet heard of giscus until I stumbled upon this link at the distillery. Thanks again!

[jthomasmock]

+1 - thanks to Shannon for resharing- this is a great option!

[joelnitta]

Thanks for the comments! I’m very happy if it’s helpful for others. And super excited for the first comments on my (new) blog 😁

[drmowinckels]

I love this! Totally switching my blog and hugo template to accomodate it! Thanks @shannonpileggi for tweeting aboutit!

[drmowinckels]

Thanks to you, I am now also using giscus :D
https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2021-03-23-using-github-actions-to-build-your-hugo-website/

[joelnitta]

Looks great, glad it's working for you!

[MaraAlexeev]

Thank you so much for writing this!! It will be a gem for the R community.

[joelnitta]

Thanks for the kind words :)
I really didn't do much, just put together some things others had already made. Major props to @laymonage for creating giscus in the first place and @MilesMcBain for figuring out how to get it (utterances, originally) to work with Distill.

[nxskok]

yes, it works! (After a little fiddling.)

In the script in step 5, I (eventually) realized that something had to go in those [ENTER CATEGORY HERE] placeholders, and the specific things that had go in there were the things under Enable Giscus on the Giscus app page. (Your words "populated with your information" must have eluded me the first time.)

Thank you for inspiring me to try this, and, not only that, thanks to you, I was successful!

[joelnitta]

Yes it took me a little while playing with the Giscus app page to realize that. Thanks for the comment, hopefully that may clear it up for others as well.

[Nitinkumar-Gove]

From where did you get value for [your-category-id] ? I am unable to locate this during integration.

[joelnitta]

Do you mean this line in the HTML snippet above?

 script.setAttribute("data-category-id", "[ENTER CATEGORY ID HERE]");

That should show up in the giscus app once you've selected a category from the drop-down menu, like this: https://imgur.com/gallery/Md6ul0k

Did you select a category?

[L-Groeninger]

Wow, thanks a lot!:) I also managed to follow your tutorial and got it working

[joelnitta]

Yay! Glad to know it worked for you.

[loreabad6]

Thank you so much this is great!

[joelnitta]

You're welcome! 😄

[jeweljohnsonj]

Thank you for writing this article. It was very easy to follow through.

[joelnitta]

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad it was useful!

[mfherman]

Thanks for writing this up -- so easy to set up on my Distill site!

One small thing that tripped me up is that if your blog posts are in a folder other than posts/, you have to modify the example giscus.html file to find posts in the non-standard directory. The small change for my site is here. Thanks again!

[joelnitta]

Glad it worked for you!

Thanks for adding that clarification, I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

[gustavdelius]

@mfherman, what modification would I have to make if my pages are in the root directory of the website. I tried to just take out the "/posts" part but that did not work.

[shamindras]

Thanks @joelnitta for these great instructions. I just switched to giscus from utterances on my distill site. Was super easy thanks to you!

[joelnitta]

Awesome!

[be-favorite]

Thanks a lot!

[joelnitta]

You're welcome! 😊

[tongakuot]

Thank you so much, Joel! I have successfully added Giscus to my blog.

[joelnitta]

Awesome!

[gustavdelius]

Hi Joel. In your update to this blog post you mention Quarto. Did you switch from distill to Quarto and if so, what are the advantages?

[joelnitta]

I did switch to Quarto. I find the advantages broadly speaking that Quarto can do just about everything that was possible in Rmarkdown, but without lots of extra packages and work-arounds (such as the one described in this blogpost). I get the impression that the developers of quarto saw how Rmarkdown had evolved and decided to implement a lot of the functionality that had grown organically in Rmarkdown directly in Quarto. The other major feature is that it can run various languages natively (not just R), but I primarily use R so I don't notice that as much.

[gustavdelius]

I am very glad that your blog made me aware of Quarto. You are right that it is indeed the future of R Markdown.

[cpsyctc]

Thanks for this. Enabled me to set it up on my blog (https://www.psyctc.org/Rblog/) I suspect I'll remain the only person to comment there but at least the option is there!! Very best, Chris