WordPress Paged Comments Plugin
Paged Comments is a plugin for WordPress to allow comment paging. Useful for those popular blog entries receiving many comments, or a simple guestbook page within WordPress.
Features
- Comment ordering: show latest comments first, or last
- Specify number of comments to display per page
- Enable paging for all posts and pages, or on a per-post basis
- Give users the choice to view all comments on one page with a ’show all’ link
- Specify the first or last page of comments to load by default
- See paged-comments-config-sample.php for more
Download — Latest Version
- Version 2.8 (2008-08-19) (zip file) Release notes
- View code at the WP Plugin Repository
- Work in progress: Ajax-style Paged Comments (no download yet - AJAX support coming in version 3)
Related Downloads
Installation (for Wordpress 2.3+)
If you’re upgrading from a previous version, skip these installation steps and read the upgrade steps.
- Download and extract plugin files to a folder locally.
- Read through and edit paged-comments-config-sample.php to configure, then save the file as paged-comments-config.php.
- Upload the whole paged-comments directory to /wp-content/plugins/. The plugin files should now be in /wp-content/plugins/paged-comments/.
- Enable the plugin through the WordPress admin interface. That’s it!
Optional Steps
- To customise the template to work better with your theme: Open the plugin’s themes folder and find the subfolder corresponding to the WordPress theme you’d like paged comments enabled on (or if your theme isn’t listed, choose the ‘default’ folder). Upload comments-paged.php to the appropriate WordPress theme folder (found in [wordpress]/wp-content/themes/).
For example, if you’re using the default WordPress theme, copy [paged-comments-plugin]/themes/default/comments-paged.php to [wordpress]/wp-content/themes/default/. (The plugin always tries to load comments-paged.php from your active theme folder first.)
Make any modifications to comments-paged.php. The file is based on the comments.php file, so if your theme is very different it might be easier to copy in the necessary elements from paged-comments.php. View the diff report to see what you need to change.
Examples of Use
The comments on this page are handled by the plugin, but it’s also used by the following sites:
- White Town guestbook
- Thank You Stephen Colbert (over 60,000 comments!)
- Playstation
- eBay
- Mashable
- TorrentFreak
Questions?
- Read the FAQ and if it’s not answered…
- Leave a comment or email: keyvan (at) k1m.com
Donate
I work on this plugin in my spare time. If you find it useful, please consider donating to help me continue work on the plugin. (This plugin is, and will remain, free software, please only donate if you want to.)
Paid Support
If you run a commercial site and you’re having difficulty setting up paged comments, I now offer paid support. Feel free to get in touch: keyvan (at) k1m.com
Any ideas as to why it breaks any added queries on my WP 2.0 setup when they work fine on yours?
ie.
http://www.keyvan.net/code/paged-comments/comment-page-20/?testflag=true
will load the page properly on your setup but if I try to do that on mine I get a 404 ?
If you are running WP 2.x do you have a special rewrite rule setup?
I got it working, it was my fault as to try to not use a seperate comments-paged.php template and to try to integrate it into the regular template.
Any suggestions from anyone on how I can hack wp-comments-post.php to make it return the the last page on the newest comment so they can see their post? Does comments-post support redirect_to by any chance?
I don’t want to do newest comments on top - it’s confusing for some newbies.
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Keyvan —
I just took another look at the conflict I was having with your plugin and Permalink Redirect and I solved the issue. My permalink structure was set-up so that articles should NOT have a trailing slash, which works fine if I’m only using Permalink Redirect OR Paged Comments, but which fails miserably if I try to use both. I personally prefer not having trailing slashes on articles — only directories — but that’s not possible if I want to use both of these plugins right now. Is this an issue on your end or with Permalink Redirect?
The necessary plugin (:
It is established easily and perfectly works.
Thank u so much!
Trying it on a fairly fresh WP 2.0.3 install though i do have a bunch of plugins. No ajax or anything fancy. But no luck in getting it to work.
I only get
“Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object”
How and where would I start diagnosing this?
many thanks!
Worked like a charm !! Thanks
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[...] To use Paged Comments plugin in your Wordpress blog, you need to download the plugin from the author’s site. Installation is pretty straight forward as detailed on the site, but you will need to upload the comments-paged.php in the plugin’s themes folder to your theme template folder, where it will be used to process and list the comments instead of the default comments.php. As the comments template contains unique design and format for each WordPress theme, so the comments-paged.php for Paged Comments plugin must match the original theme’s comments template in order not to deviates too much from the theme’s design. [...]
I’m wondering if anyone here can help me out with a problem Im having getting Paged Comments to show up on a page made static as the Front page with Static Front Page Plugin. You can see the discussion at WP in the tail end of this topic:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/33005/page/2?replies=54#post-404194