Release Notes - Update 1

29 Dec 2018 - garfbradaz - blog

Release Notes - Update 1

Whenever I do an update to this blog itself, I will be providing some Release Notes on changes, including where possible, what I have done, as this may be helpful to someone else.

Version Notes

I was going to use a proper Semantic Version (SemVer) for the site, but decided just to do incremental number releases (like Chrome). Just, well because!. No other reason than ease.

Blog Post Comments

I have now switched on comments using the service Disqus for which you can sign up for free. Because Jekyll doesn’t have a back end data store, this made the most sense to me (& Disqus has good support).

How did I do it? Well this is my site, so you may need to add it different places depending on your site structure, but I followed the standard Jekyll site creation for Github Pages, the structure is what I would call vanilla.

• Sign up to Disqus.

• Take note of the the shortname you create for your site.

• Edit your _config.yml and add the following:

disqus:
    shortname: <replace-with-your-short-name>

• Create a comments.html and and save it to your _includes directory with the following snippet. This is the embedded code provided by Disqus:

    <div class="comments">
        <div id="disqus_thread"></div>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            var disqus_shortname = 'garfbradaz';
            (function() {
            var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true;
            dsq.src = '//' + disqus_shortname + '.disqus.com/embed.js';
            (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); })();    
        </script>
    <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="http://disqus.com/?ref_noscript">comments powered by Disqus.</a></noscript>
    </div> 

• Add a reference to comments.html to your posts.html. Add the following to the bottom of the posts.html (or whatever your HTMl file is called):

• You need to turn a comment on using the following Front Matter value in each post file:

comments: true

• Rebuild your posts:

bundle exec jekyll build

• Voila, you will have a nice comment at the bottom of your page:

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Gareth Bradley AKA garfbradaz   Twitter

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