title: Disqus Comments
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summary: Enabling disqus comments in one minute.
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body:

The `disqus-comments` plugin adds support for Disqus comments to Lektor and
with it's help you can have comments on your pages in no time.  Once the plugin
is enabled a `render_disqus_comments` function is available for templates which
can render a disqus comment box.  All you need to do for this is to create your
own Disqus community at [Disqus Engage :ext](https://publishers.disqus.com/engage).

Once you have created your community there you will be given a "short name"
which can then be used with this plugin.

## Enabling the Plugin

First you need to enable the plugin.  The following command will do that
for you:

```
$ lektor plugins add disqus-comments
```

## Configuring the Plugin

The plugin has a config file that is needed to inform it about your
website.  Just create a file named `disqus-comments.ini` into your
`configs/` folder and configure the `shortname` key with the name of
your disqus community:

```ini
shortname = YOUR_SHORTNAME
```

## In Templates

Now you can add a discussion box to any of your templates by just using
the `render_disqus_comments` function.  Just calling it is enough to
get the comment box:

```html
<div class="comments">{{ render_disqus_comments() }}</div>
```

Optionally the function accepts two arguemnts: `identifier` and
`url` to override the defaults.  For more information have a look at
the disqus widget documentation.