gatsby-theme-ghost-commento
v2.0.0
Published
Gatsby theme to easily add commento to gatsby-theme-try-ghost
Downloads
37
Maintainers
Readme
gatsby-theme-ghost-commento
Integrates the commenting system Commento into blog posts of gatsby-theme-try-ghost. This theme makes use of latent-component-shadowing and showcases best practices for adding custom themes to gatsby-theme-try-ghost
.
Install
yarn add gatsby-theme-ghost-commento
Dependencies
This theme is an add-on theme designed to seamlessly integrate with gatsby-theme-try-ghost. The theme uses functions provided by gatsby-theme-try-ghost
, so installing gatsby-theme-try-ghost
is required.
yarn add gatsby-theme-try-ghost
How to use
// In your gatsby-config.js
plugins: [
{
resolve: `gatsby-theme-ghost-commento`,
options: {
// The url pointing to your self-hosted commento installation
// You can remove the option, if you use the commento.io managed service
url: `https://commento.your-blog.com`,
},
},
]
Details
This Gatsby theme plugin hooks into the gatsby-theme-try-ghost
theme and adds a comment section to every post. Please play with the Commento Demo in order to find out if this is the right commenting system for you. If you are self-hosting commento, then add your endpoint in the url
field above. Users of the commento.io managed service, can remove the options as the url
defaults to https://cdn.commento.io
.
Backend
In order to be able to use comments with Commento, you need a backend. You have two options here:
Register with Commento (convenient, subscription fees).
Spin-up a self-hosted Commento server Commento server (full control, own server costs).
The Commento backend allows you to set spam filters, add moderators, authentication options and much more. It also provides a dashboard for anonymous analytics.
Wishlist
All comments are sourced in via a javascript plugin on runtime. To improve SEO it would be better to have an hybrid approach, where older comments are sourced in during Gatsby build time and only new comments are provided on runtime. If you feel the call to improve this plugin, please get in contact with us.
Contributions
PRs are welcome! Consider contributing to this project if you are missing feature that is also useful for others. Explore this guide, to get some more ideas.
Copyright & License
Copyright (c) 2020 styxlab - Released under the MIT license.