Embedding comments
How to add comments to a web page by embedding Comentario
The whole point of installing Comentario is, of course, using it as a web comment engine.
Or, in other words, its ability to add comment threads to web pages.
Adding comments to a web page
In order to add (embed) comments to your website, you’ll need to do the following:
- Register a new domain in the Administration UI.
- Add an HTML snippet to every web page that’s supposed to have comment functionality.
The HTML snippet is displayed in domain properties and looks like this:
<script defer src="https://example.com/comentario.js"></script>
<comentario-comments></comentario-comments>
As you can see, it consists of two tags: a <script> and a <comentario-comments>, more on which below.
Adding a comment counter to a web page
You can also add a widget that displays the number of comments on a specific page.
Just like the comments tag mentioned above, it also requires:
- A domain registered in Comentario, and
- Two tags:
<script>and<comentario-count>.
The <script> tag is the same as the one above, it must be only added once to the page. Then it will be shared amongst any number of <comentario-comments> and <comentario-count> elements.
The <script> tag is the first of the two elements required to embed comments or to display a comment count onto a page. It provides the entire commenting functionality, including server communication, comment layout, content, and styling.
The <comentario-comments> tag is the second required element on a comment page (with the script tag being the first). It represents a web component that provides the comment functionality.
The <comentario-count> tag represents an optional widget that displays the number of comments on the current or any other specified page.