giscus-hugo-comments

Setting up Giscus comments for Hugo blog

Introduction: Why Add Comments? I wanted to enable readers to easily comment on my Hugo blog posts, aiming for a solution that is both simple for users and lightweight/easy to maintain for me. Hugo offers official support for integrating various commercial and open-source commenting systems. Choosing a Commenting System Commercial vs. Open-Source While several commercial options like Disqus exist (free for non-commercial use but often includes ads), I opted for an open-source solution to maintain control and avoid third-party advertising. ...

December 4, 2025 · 3 min
hugo-autotranslator

Free Hugo autotranslator for Github Pages

The problem and the idea I want to write a blog post in english or german, and I don’t want translate it manually every time. This is much easier to maintain and obviously much less annoying. So the idea is to automate this translation process. Therefore it should automatically be detected if the post is written in german or english and translate it to the other language. I like to use Github Actions to translate before deployment. For this I want to use free translation service. ...

June 26, 2025 · 5 min