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
Hey Keyvan … I downloaded the new plugin, but still no luck activating it. I get a blank site and blank admin page, and my site only comes back if I delete the plugin.
I’m sure it’s my fault. Probably a problem with my WP install, which is too bad because I could really use your plugin. I have a post with 800 comments that REALLY needs to be paged.
Thanks.
Thanks for the comments everyone. To those having problems, please try version 2.6. The directory structure has changed, so if you’re currently using 2.5, read the upgrade steps.
New features/fixes
* German users should see ‘Show All’, ‘Newer Comments’ and ‘Older Comments’ translated. Thanks kretzschmar.
* Eval problem should be gone now. Thanks AlexeyG.
* Install for first-time users is now easier. No more copying template files to the theme folder.
Please let me know if you experience any problems.
Keyvan,
Thank you for a great plugin, I’ve been using it for over a year now. Some of my posts have a few hundreds comments and your plugin really helps.
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Keyvan … this sounds like a great plugin that would really help me out, but when I tried to activate it, my site totally disappeared. My homepage and everything else had absolutely no content. Couldn’t even access WP admin.
Any idea what I did wrong?
I’m using WP 2.1 … that should be OK, right?
Here’s my site:
http://www.boyslife.org/section/games/games-guru/
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Great plugin Keyvan, but do you know how to enable paged comments for popup comments. There’s a small mention about it a while back, but no follow up. I guess it’s not a very popular feature, but I’d really like to get this feature on my blog, and would gladly put in a donation if you could help me out.
Thanks.