How to set up Giscus comments in my blog?

[guilhermeparreira]

Description

Hi There!

I am trying to set up giscus comments for my blog but the giscus comment section does not show.

What I have done so far:

• The repository is [public]
• The giscus app is installed on my github
• The Discussions feature is turned on.

I entered into the giscus website and I included the settings at the end of my _metadata.yml which is inside of my posts folder on my website:

comments:
  giscus:
    repo: "guilhermeparreira/guilhermeparreira.github.io"
    repo-id: "R_kgDOMqTkUA"
    mapping: "pathname"
    category: "Announcements"
    category-id: "DIC_kwDOMqTkUM4CiNf2"
    reactions-enabled: true
    input-position: "bottom"
    lang: "en"
    theme: "light"
    loading: "lazy"

quarto version: 1.5.57
ubuntu: 24.04.1 LTS

guilherme@guilherme-G3-3579:~/Documents/guilhermeparreira.github.io$ quarto check
Quarto 1.5.57
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
     Pandoc version 3.2.0: OK
     Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
     Deno version 1.41.0: OK
     Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
     Version: 1.5.57
     Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
     TinyTeX: (not installed)
     Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
     Tex:  (not detected)

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
     Version: 3.12.3
     Path: /usr/bin/python3
     Jupyter: (None)

     Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
     Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........(None)

     Unable to locate an installed version of R.
     Install R from https://cloud.r-project.org/

guilherme@guilherme-G3-3579:~/Documents/guilhermeparreira.github.io$ 

[cderv]

I can see it on your website:

Did you made some updates since you posted ?

[guilhermeparreira]

Thank you!
But strange...
Locally the Giscus was not on the screen.
Then I created the question.
And then I deployed my website and did not check it out.

Can it happen? (will it perform differently locally than on the website?)
Can the theme of Giscus according to the website theme?

thanks for your support

[cderv]

Can the theme of Giscus according to the website theme?

Possibly yes. Not automatically switching probably; But You should look at giscus doc for theme, and search this discussion board about this question.