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 2.7.1 (2008-07-14) (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 2.5
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
Mateusz: Glad it’s working for you now
ovidiu: I’ll have a look at that plugin when I have time.
Martin: Thanks! You can either edit the plugin file itself, paged-comments.php, and replace the english phrases. (That’s the easy method, but it’ll make updates more difficult because you’ll have to edit again for each new update you want to use.) If you know how to use .pot files, the better way is to create a new language file and put it in the languages folder. If your WordPress config has a certain language other than English defined, the new file will be used automatically once you place it in the languages folder. You can download paged-comments.pot. Hope that helps.
This is a nice plugin. It works really nice.
Could you tell me what file i should edit in, if i whant to translate it to another language?
//Martin
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but if you also have a look at that guestbook generator plugin, maybe you can confirm what I understood: it seemed that plugin takes my commentform from the theme I am using and then changes and alters it, saves it udner another name and makes it compatible with your plugin…
maybe I got all that wrong?
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awesome Keyvan!
thanks very much, you saved my life.
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ovidiu: I’ll look into that theme if I get the chance. You’ll probably need to create a custom paged comments template for the theme. If you want to attempt this yourself, look at the difference between the default comments.php file bundled with WordPress and the one modified for this plugin.
Eric: Links to comment pages should retain the permalink structure if you enable fancy URL support in the paged-comments-config.php file. (Look at the URLs for the different pages here.)
Mateusz: Version 2.6.4 should work for you, just replace paged-comments.php.
after installing the paged commentsplugin all I get is:
Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.
:/
any ide what’s going on?
Im running WP 2.1.1
ms
First of all, i think i have to hope to get enough comments to see the pagination
Thanks anyway
I don’t know if you are still adding to this plugin but I think it would be a cool feature if the paging links kept the permalink structure. Just an idea! Love the plugin!!