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title: Enabling comments (via Disqus)
description: "Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show a comments section below each post. To enable it, add the following lines to `_config.yml`: ``` disqus: shortname: my_disqus_shortname ``` You can find out…"
url: "https://hosdu.com/docs/enabling-comments-via-disqus/"
updated: "2021-08-25"
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# Enabling comments (via Disqus)

Optionally, if you have a Disqus account, you can tell Jekyll to use it to show a comments section below each post. To enable it, add the following lines to `_config.yml`:

```
disqus:
    shortname: my_disqus_shortname
```

You can find out more about Disqus’ shortnames [here](https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466208).

Comments are enabled by default. If you don’t want to display comments for a particular post you can disable them by adding `comments: false` to that post’s YAML Front Matter.