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
I need to be able to hide comments on certain pages from everyone apart from:
Me (admin)
One user (specified by me)
The ‘one user’ would be different for every page.
I hope that makes sense! I am trying to build an educational site, and I need comments on some pages to be only visible to me, and the student I specify.
[...] A recent upgrade of a project to WordPress 2.3.1 brought about a few other new upgrades. It’s one of those things where you figure, “while we’re in here we might as well fix up a few things.” So among the upgrades being made was the addition of the Paged Comments plugin on the blog. A small bit of styling and we were good to go with paging. No real issues to speak of until we tested the recent comments we were pulling into the sidebar on the site. [...]
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Thanks for all the comments everyone. Sorry it’s taking a while, but I will start looking at the WP 2.3 issues you’ve posted. Expect an update soon.
Hi,
Thanks for the great plugin, I’m using since the first version.
With wp 2.3.1. if the user is logged and the comment is awaiting moderation, the comment is not shown to the user (with or without the note “Your comment is awaiting moderation”).
If the user isn’t logged, all works fine and the comment awaiting moderation is shown to him.
I looked for solving it, but I couldn’t.
Thanks.
Julius.
[...] Paged Comments v1.6.4 : 댓글이 수 십개 이상 달리게 되면 화면을 온통 댓글이 차지해 버리고 가장 최근에 달린 댓글이 저 아래로 밀려 내려가게 된다. 이 플러그인은 일정 수를 넘어가는 댓글과 트랙백들을 여러 페이지로 나누어 주는데, 사실 그 기능이 꼭 필요해서 쓴다기보다는 요 밑에 방명록 플러그인을 쓸 때 이 기능이 필요하기 때문에 쓰고 있다. [...]
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[...] It’s been quite a while since I updated MangoOrange and I decided to do some internal upgrades on the WordPress as well as the plugins. In the midst of it, I found an awesome plugin, the one that I’ve been looking for, WordPress Paged Comments. [...]
oh balls, sorry, that example has the wrong link (obviously). You can find an example of the highlighting here.