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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Thanks very beautiful plugin..
Hello Keyvan,
you Plugin is really helpful. Thanks for your effort!
I am using the german version of WP and all strings has been translated, but when your plugin is activated, all of the affected strings will shown in english. Is there a way to tell your plugin, that it should use the german description?
Thanks!
Tobi
Hi,
When you’re going to release ajax-paged-comments? Or is there anyway we can try it on our site, advice.
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michaelooi: Not sure why. Have you tried using it with the default theme? If it works with the default theme then it’s probably incompatible with your theme. The only suggestion I have is to try the optional steps on this page (below the installation steps) and see if that helps.
Dennis: I’ve never tried it and I don’t plan on implementing it. Sorry. But feel free to try it yourself, and if it turns out that it’s easy to integrate into the current code, let me know and I’ll include it.
Trevor: I haven’t tested the plugin myself with those numbers, so I don’t want to promise anything, but I don’t think the plugin itself will put much of a strain on your server. If you look at the examples on this page, one of the sites has over 60,000 comments and it appears quite responsive to me. I’d be interested to hear how it turns out if you do go ahead and use the plugin with WordPress.
Hey Keyvan,
Thanks for offering this excellent script! I am working on moving my blog to Wordpress from MovableType.
One of the reasons for the move is that I offer petitions that garner 35,000+ signatures and my traffic is growing quickly.
I was considering using external guestbook software but your plug-in looks like it could do the job very well. Do you think doing dozens of petitions with many thousands of comments each would overload/bog down your plug-in or WP?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Trevor
Hi Keyvan,
is it possible to display the number of pages when its not a page oder post. To show what i mean, dasmoment.com. You´ll see there a comments on the Frontpage, but not showing your plugin. Only if the post itself is shown like …index.php?p=1. Please it would be so nice.
All the best, Dennis
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