Anglefeint Starter Guide 3: Configure Comments, About, and Theme Toggles

Once your site identity and languages are in place, the next layer is feature toggles.

Enable Giscus comments

The minimum working configuration is:

theme: {
  comments: {
    enabled: true,
    repo: 'owner/repo',
    repoId: '...',
    category: 'Announcements',
    categoryId: '...',
    mapping: 'pathname',
  },
}

The current starter consumes:

• enabled
• repo
• repoId
• category
• categoryId
• mapping
• term
• number
• strict
• reactionsEnabled
• emitMetadata
• inputPosition
• theme
• lang
• loading
• crossorigin

Validation to remember:

• mapping: 'specific' requires term
• mapping: 'number' requires a positive integer number

Customize the About page content

Use:

i18n.locales.<code>.about

That configuration drives About page body text, sidebar labels, modal content, and About runtime strings.

Toggle the Red Queen post effect

Use:

theme: {
  effects: {
    enableRedQueen: true,
  },
}

Control home and blog counts

theme: {
  blogPageSize: 9,
  homeLatestCount: 3,
}

Tune blog pagination

These fields are live in the current archive pagination:

• windowSize
• showJumpThreshold
• jump.enabled
• jump.enterToGo
• style.enabled
• style.mode
• style.variants
• style.fixedVariant

One important boundary

Route atmospheres such as the Matrix home, Cyber blog list, AI blog post layout, and Hacker About layout are route-owned theme systems. Use config for supported toggles and content, not for arbitrary structural restyling.

Read the full series

• Starter Guide 1: Configure Your Site
• Starter Guide 2: Configure Languages and Routing