Disable Disqus comments for static pages

[michaelbolger]

I'm using blogdown with the default Lithium theme. With Disqus enabled, all pages accept comments, including static pages e.g. About and Projects. Is there a recommended way to selectively disable Disqus comments on certain pages, while retaining them on the main content pages (i.e., my actual blog posts)?

[mishabalyasin]

I'm not sure, but maybe you can take a closer look at templates that Hugo provides. From what I understand, they allow you to have posts with different layouts/themes. Perhaps, it can be done in such a way that only certain posts get to have Disqus.

[michaelbolger]

@mishabalyasin

take a closer look at templates

Thanks, this pointed me in the right direction.

The (Lithium theme) Disqus template starts with:

{{ if and (not (eq .Site.DisqusShortname "")) (not .Params.disable_comments) }}

As I now understand, the .Params.disable_comments is a page variable that can be set in the page's front matter. So adding disable_comments: true turns off comments for that page only.