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
(continued. sorry I cut myself off again)
I shall certainly try again as it’s probably my own editing at fault. Do you think it might be more straightforward for me to add on the necessary CSS values instead of editing the template?
Thanks again!
Keyvan: Thank you for testing Hemingway-Ex! I really appreciate it!
I apologise for not clarifying that I had made the changes to ensure that the comments display would be the same as the ‘default’ comments on Hemingway-Ex(but paginated/descending order), as Paged Comments seems to use a slightly different template. I was under the impression I had made the suitable changes, but had the error instead >_
Plugin worked on 2.2 -> Updated to 2.3 -> still working (for me)
WP 2.3 issues: I tried upgrading my WP 2.2 install to version 2.3 and the plugin works for me. I will need more information from anyone experiencing problems. (Did it work before when you were using WP 2.2? Are you using the latest version of the plugin?) I don’t have much time to test it extensively at the moment, so anything that can help me track down the problem would help.
Mosey: I tried Hemingway EX and it appears to work okay without any changes (at least for me).
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Hello, just to thanks a lot as i am actually owning a wordpress 2.1.1 website and your plugin worked perfectly, in 5 seconds lol.
Sorry all, I’ve been too busy the last few days to look into some of the reported problems. I’ll be looking at the 2.3 issue very soon and some of the other issues reported here. If you’ve got it working with WP 2.3 or would like to share any fixes, please post or email. Thanks.
I also have problems after upgrading to WordPress 2.3. I see one page with comments. But if I want to go to another page then nothing happens. It stays on the same page.
Is there a fix or an update for this problem?
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Anyone had problems installing this plugin on wordpress 2.3 ? I get this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate … Thanks