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
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Sorry, I was too quick to post my earlier comment! I missed to read all text in your paged-comments.php file. Now I have change my guestbook to and it works great! Thank you for a great plug-in!
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Hello!
Yesterday I installed your Paged Comments Plug-in to my guestbook’s page in WP 2.2.
I have tried to configure the config-file, but nothing happens. My earliest post shows first and I can’t see any page numbers. (I want to read the latest comments first.)
I don’t know if I had set the wrong code in my guestbook
to called the template.
I have tried to have the comment-paged.php, but when I do that I got this message.
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/u/utmattningsdepressionnet/…/themes/refresh/comments-paged.php on line 26
Please, can you give me a tip how to fix this problem?
I hope you can understand what I mean; my English is not the best.
This plugin is GREAT!!
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sdamy: I don’t have translations for the Italian language. If you (or anyone else) is able to translate and send me the strings used by the plugin, please let me know. You can see the 3 strings used by the plugin here: paged-comments.pot.
Ronald: Redirecting users to the comment page containing their submitted comment is something I’m going to look at for the next release.
Sergio: I’m not familiar with that plugin, but I don’t think you need a plugin to create a guestbook page for you. Simply creating a Wordpress page and calling it ‘Guestbook’ should work fine.
I have installed your plugin to paginate my guestbook (made with Guestbook Generator plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/guestbook-generator/) , but it doesen’t works.
It works in all the pages of my blog, except the guestobook page…
Can you help me? Tanks, and sorry for my bad english…
I’m having somewhat of a usability problem when a user leaves a comment, but is taken to the first page rather than the page their comment is actual posted. Any ideas?