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How to setup third party services for your github pages blog

Mar 19, 2019 by Areg Sarkissian

Articles in this series:

Part 1 - Setup a Github pages blog in five minutes

Part 2 - Customize your github pages blog layout in five minutes

Part 3 - Customize your github pages blog style in five minutes

Part 4 - Setup a custom domain for your github pages blog in five minutes

Part 5 - Setup your github pages blog structure in five minutes

Part 6 - Setup third party services for your github pages blog

Part 7 - Github pages tech stack: Jekyll, Liquid, Markdown

In this post I will list resources that you can check out to learn how to integrate third party services into your Github pages blog.

Particularly, the three services listed below:

• Disqus - for adding commenting functionality to our pages.
• MailChimp - for adding newsletter subscribers to our blog.
• Gumroad - for adding digital downloads capability to our blog.

Adding Disqus third party comments for our posts

Here is a Stack Overflow link that describes how to embedd Disqus comments into your blog:

How do I use disqus comments in github pages blog markdown

Adding MailChimp third party email newsletter service

Here is a link to instructions for creating a MailChimp newsletter subscription form and generating the code to embed in your Github pages blog.

MailChimp subscription form setup

Adding Gumroad third party digital download service

Here is a link to instructions for embedding a product purchase widget into your Github pages blog.

Gumroad widgets

Conslusion

In this post I listed resources you can use to add comments, newsletter subscriptions and digital downloads to your blog using third party services.

Thanks for reading.

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