Migrating Wordpress comments to HashOver for Hugo

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 05:26:35 +0000

I’ve briefly covered thoughts around adding a comment system in to this blog since it was migrated to Hugo.

I won’t rehash the decision making process - but fundamentally I wasn’t going to go with Disqus and wanted a simpler solution. There are various options out there and tl;dr I ended up choosing HashOver, mostly for the following reasons:

It appeared to be reasonably simple to stand it up completely external to the ‘main’ site, i.e. in a sub-domain
It runs on PHP/MySQL which is already available on my host. Other commenting systems needed different stacks which I don’t have access to without switching.

Incidentally, HashOver supports other persistence options such as SQLite and even XML which if you wanted to be completely serverless which could be interesting; but as it happens this comment migration process would likely have been a fair whack harder.

Hashover on Matt Thornton

Migrating Wordpress comments to HashOver for Hugo