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Add Comments To Your Blog In Under Five Minutes

While reading a blog post on web mentions I noticed that the author, Freek Van der Herten was using a comment system that I had never seen before. It looked very similar to a GitHub issue, which piqued my interest. After some digging, I found that it was powered by a free and open source tool called Utterances.

Utterances provides a GitHub app and a lightweight script to embed a comment widget on your website. When Utterances loads, it will use the GitHub API to find a matching issue based on one of the following criteria:

  • the article pathname
  • the site url
  • the page title
  • the page open graph title
  • a specific issue number
  • an issue title containing a specific term


  • While reading a blog post on web mentions I noticed that the author, Freek Van der Herten was using a comment system that I had never seen before. It looked very similar to a GitHub issue, which piqued my interest. After some digging, I found that it was powered by a free and open source tool called Utterances.

    Utterances provides a GitHub app and a lightweight script to embed a comment widget on your website. When Utterances loads, it will use the GitHub API to find a matching issue based on one of the following criteria:

  • the article pathname
  • the site url
  • the page title
  • the page open graph title
  • a specific issue number
  • an issue title containing a specific term


  • While reading a blog post on web mentions I noticed that the author, Freek Van der Herten was using a comment system that I had never seen before. It looked very similar to a GitHub issue, which piqued my interest. After some digging, I found that it was powered by a free and open source tool called Utterances.

    Utterances provides a GitHub app and a lightweight script to embed a comment widget on your website. When Utterances loads, it will use the GitHub API to find a matching issue based on one of the following criteria:

  • the article pathname
  • the site url
  • the page title
  • the page open graph title
  • a specific issue number
  • an issue title containing a specific term
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