Deploying Utteranc.es comments engine on Ghost Blog

Integrations & API
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How do I get utteranc.es (GitHub Issues based comments engine) to work on a Ghost blog? Any tutorial for the same?

1.) Where should I add the utteranc.es script (see below) if i want the comments engine framework appear in every blog post but not in pages like HOME, ABOUT US?

<script src="https://utteranc.es/client.js"
        repo="[ENTER REPO HERE]"
        issue-term="pathname"
        theme="github-light"
        crossorigin="anonymous"
        async>
</script>

2.) Is it possible to deploy this utteranc.es comments engine on a static ghost blog hosted on GitHub pages, created using this tutorial ?

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You could use either handlebars or javascript to figure out which kind of page you’re on, and load the script if you’re on the right kind of page.

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Thank you for your reply :+1:.
Will [utteranc.es](http://utteranc.es) work on a statically generated (using buster) ghost blog and hosted on GitHub Pages or will it only work if ghost is deployed on a live server (like AWS EC2) ?

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It runs client side, so there’s not an obvious reason it won’t work.

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Hi Cathy, Thanks for your feedback. Based on your last reply, I was searching for some tutorial online on how to add this utteranc.es to a ghost blog post and I came across this - Add comments with utterances

What I don’t understand from this tutorial is:
1.) When I searched in my Finder the local ghost folder for utils, I only see many results showing utils.js and not utils.jl ! Where is the utils.jl file in the ghost local folder structure to add this hfun_* function ? Do you think utils.jl was a typo in the blog?
2.) Is hfun_* represents some special class of functions belonging to hfun, and the * after the hfun_ means any name could follow like hfun_addcomments() ?

Would greatly appreciate if you could kindly assist or clarify this small issue.

Here are other posts I came across regarding deploying utteranc.es:
Working examples and tutorials on adding utteranc.es to a ghost blog
1.) https://thetldr.tech/how-to-add-comment-to-ghost-blog/
2.) TechFlak - Ghost Blog with Github issues (edited)

Best Regards,
Dilip

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a .jl file is a julia file. I don’t know much about julia, so can’t help you there. You might want to contact the tutorial author.

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Can’t we do something like that in Javascript or in one of the .hbs?