transfer disqus comments

[njtierney]

Not that there are that many to transfer, but work out how to do that properly

[njtierney]

I've added the custom footer now, need to check why this isn't working

[njtierney]

I've added the footer from this pull request, and added my disqus shortname, not sure what else there is to do here.

[njtierney]

@yihui have I missed something with my disqus stuff?

[yihui]

Yes, a proper baseurl: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/configuration.html#options

You do not see a full baseurl in the hugo-xmin repo only because I hid it behind the scenes on Netlify:

That said, I think this issue should be fixed in Hugo. I noticed it long time ago but it didn't bother me enough. You are not the first person who has been bitten by this issue, but I have finally submitted a PR to Hugo to fix it: gohugoio/hugo#3639

You can also customize your disqus.html. I have a fairly complicated one for myself and I don't think you want to borrow it: https://github.com/rbind/yihui/blob/master/layouts/partials/disqus.html included at https://github.com/rbind/yihui/blob/master/layouts/_default/single.html#L20

[njtierney]

Hey @yihui - I'm not sure what I'm missing on my site but I noticed that someone else seems to ahve the same/similar problem, do you have an idea on what I might be missing?

[yihui]

My hugo-xmin does not support Disqus comments by default, but I have shown how: https://github.com/yihui/hugo-xmin/pull/4/files

[njtierney]

OK thanks for that! I missed adding in the footer, I've worked through the disqus troubleshooting guide, but it looks like I'll need to contact their team, as their suggestions haven't fixed it.

[yihui]

No need to contact them. I can spot the problem in 5 seconds. In short, upgrade your Hugo version on Netlify (because of the issues I fixed in gohugoio/hugo#3639). Here is the config info of one of my websites:

[njtierney]

oh wow, thank you so much! It works now! 😄

I just need to migrate the disqus comments over now, need to do some reading on that.

[yihui]

Yes. Migration is not too bad. Basically you just prepare a CSV file containing old and new URLs. Good luck!

[njtierney]

Thanks!

[yihui]

BTW, enable HTTPS! It is free on Netlify. Why HTTPS? https://https.cio.gov/everything/

[njtierney]

Awesome! I think I'm all secure now.

Hmm, any thoughts on how to disable commenting on every single page? Like to get it to run only on posts, or can you specify some "comments = TRUE" argument in the YAML?

[yihui]

Take a look at https://github.com/yihui/hugo-lithium-theme/blob/master/layouts/partials/disqus.html#L1

[njtierney]

Going to look into using utteranc.es instead of disqus