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• Where do you plan to host Talk?

  • On your own bare metal servers
  • In the cloud:
    • AWS
    • Google Cloud
    • Digital Ocean

• Do you have a domain name for Talk?

  • Recommended: You should host Talk on a subdomain on your main site (e.g. if your site is mysitefornews.org, you should serve Talk from a subdomain like talk.mysitefornews.org) to avoid issues with third-party cookie sharing.

• Do you have a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve performance and reduce load on your Talk servers?

• Do you have a MongoDB instance?

  • A MongoDB Docker instance hosted alongside Talk?
  • In an external MongoDB cluster?
    • MongoDB Atlas
    • mLab

• Do you need to migrate comments from a legacy system? We currently support Disqus, Livefyre, and Civil Comments.

  • Use the Talk Import framework

• Do you want to provide single sign-on (SSO) by integrating with an external auth system?

  • See Authenticating with Talk

• Do you want to integrate Talk with your CMS to automate embedding Talk Comment Stream into your site?

  • See CMS Integration

• Do you want to use Social sign-on?

  • Facebook
    • Install talk-plugin-facebook-auth
  • Google
    • Install talk-plugin-google-auth
  • Other
    • See Authenticating with Talk

• Do you want to use our Toxic Comments Plugin to help you automatically moderate comments based on their likelihood of being toxic?

  • Request a free API Key from Google
  • Install talk-plugin-toxic-comments

• Do you want to automatically prevent spam using the Akismet Spam Detection Plugin?

  • Request / pay for API Key from WordPress
  • Install talk-plugin-akismet

• Do you want to setup Email Notifications?

  • See Notifications

• Do you want to setup rich text (bold, italics, quotes)?

  • Install talk-plugin-rich-text

• Do you want to display comment counts on your embed stream or on a homepage with dozens of articles?

  • Install talk-plugin-comment-count for summary counts on multiple articles
  • Install talk-plugin-deep-reply-count to add counts to the embed stream
  • Or use the GraphQL CommentCountQuery

• Do you want to translate Talk to a different language?

  • See Translations and i18n

• Do you want to send all new comments or all reported comments to a Slack channel?

  • See our blog for more information

• Have you configured Talk’s admin settings and determined your community strategy?

  • See our tutorial for more information
  • See Configuring Talk