Paginated Comments

Latest Version is 1.0.5 and major changes include:

Paginated Comments is a plugin developed for my website on Spider Bites (BadSpiderBites.com). I have a ton of comments, many that include graphics and displaying 500 comments along with the post would create one of the slowest loading pages on the net!

You can download it from the Wordpress Repository.

Most blogs will limit or even worse, close comments once they reach a certain number – something you should never do on a blog! You can never have enough comments!

I searched for a plugin and could not find anything that offered a SE friendly solution. Paginated Comments is built with SE optimization in mind and gives you the ability to break your comments into pages. You can create pages based on size of comments so that no page of comments is greater than a certain file size, or, you can create pages based on number of posts per page (100 for example).

Another key feature is the ability to remove or provide an excerpt of the main text used on the first page of comments. This prevents duplicate content and will help your paginated comments become indexed.

Paginated Comments

Features of Paginated Comments

SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS

INSTALLING PAGINATED COMMENTS

  1. Unzip the package into an empty directory.
  2. Upload the entire directory “paginated-comments” to your Wordpress Plugin directory, default is: “/wp-content/plugins/”.
  3. Login to your WordPress Dashboard and go to the plugins section.
  4. Activate the Plugin.

SETTINGS

Paginated Comments offers a great number of features that can be managed from a simple sub-menu located inside the Settings Menu, in the following section we will give you a brief description of all the options.

PAGINATION

The pagination section provides you with a number of options for splitting multiple comments into pages. Pages require template modification in order to have this ability, posts do not. See: codex.wordpress.org/Include_Tags#The_Comments_Template for more information.

PERSONALIZATION

This section allows you to add information that will help make your comment pages more search engine friendly :)

Custom Fields

Paginated Comments allows you to override some of the previously discussed settings via custom fields, so you can personalize per post your settings :-) .

Template Tags

From time to time blog owners, administrators or designers may find the default layout not suitable for their interest, in order to let you design your own layout, Paginated Comments provides you with certain functions that you can use within your template.

LICENSING

Paginated Comments has been released under the GNU Public License.

Further information about license its contained and described inside the file license.txt

76 comments

Read the comments left by other users below, or:

Andre
#1. May 7th, 2008, at 5:39 PM.

I allways get this error when i use the Template Tag: Warning: Division by zero in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\paginated-comments\paginated-comments.php(417) : eval()’d code on line 52

Jim
#2. May 8th, 2008, at 12:14 AM.

Hello Andre,

It was a bug that came to light when you didn’t have any comments and were sorting based on size. It has been fixed.

Thanks for the heads up!

Jim.

Lackfer
#3. May 8th, 2008, at 10:41 AM.

Hello,

I installed the plugin but the following image is what I see when using the Spanish version.

Spanish paginated comments

Thanks!

Jim
#4. May 8th, 2008, at 10:50 AM.

The translation system works perfectly – I’m guessing that your blog is not using UTF-8 and but something like Latin1 which would cause such text to appear. UTF-8 is the standard character-encoding for WordPress since version 2.2 and we support from 2.3.x.

The best you can do with such a setup is to recompile the “paginated-comments-es_ES.po” and use iso-8859-1 as the main character encoding.

It has been tested and retested with 2.3.x and it works great.

Hope that helps :)

Jim.

Andre
#5. May 9th, 2008, at 1:40 PM.

Some improvement you could do: when i click on the page numbers it would be better to jump to the comments anchor. Now the page reloads and i have to scroll down to the comments. You did this for Show all, but not for the numbers.

Jim
#6. May 9th, 2008, at 8:53 PM.

Thanks for taking the time to suggest an improvement- It’s completed and I’ll upload it later tonight or tomorrow.

Have a great weekend!

Jim.

Darkraisin
#7. May 17th, 2008, at 6:41 PM.

Hi
installed it but I get this error:

input name=”comments_page_default_dk” id=”comments_page_default_dk” value=”
Fatal error: Call to undefined function attribute_escape() in D:DomainsXXXXXX.comwwwrootwp-contentpluginspaginated-comments.php on line 236

any idea?

Thanks

g30rg3_x
#8. May 21st, 2008, at 12:56 AM.

@Darkraisin: Seems that you are running the plugin from and a unsupported version, cause the attribute_escape function is presented since version 2.0.6 and the plugin clearly states for WordPress 2.3.x or 2.5.x.

Regards Darkraisin && Jim

Dipo Tepede
#9. May 23rd, 2008, at 1:49 AM.

Dear Sir,

I tried activating the plugin and I got the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Pager in /home/dipo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/paginated-comments/classes/class.Pager.php on line 9

Please, help!

g30rg3_x
#10. May 26th, 2008, at 9:53 AM.

@Dipo Tepede:
You have installed paged and paginated comments in your blog. As you may know paginated comments is a fork based on paged comments so they are mutually excluded and only 1 can work at the time, so you have to choose between paged (older) or paginated (new and improved).

However in order to avoid collisions between other plugins, i think the class Pager should be renamed to Paginated_Comments_Pager.

Regards

Mosey
#11. June 1st, 2008, at 10:20 AM.

Just to let you know that the link to the ‘plugin’ page on WP Plugins Repository links only to your main site, rather than http://www.badspiderbites.com/paginated-comments/

p/s: Just wondering, but if paginated comments is a fork of paged comments, perhaps it might be worth mentioning this in the blurb too? :)

Erik
#12. June 11th, 2008, at 6:24 PM.

When I enable the comments, when I view the comments on the blog, it comes back with the following… I have Version 2.5.1.

<? the_date(”,”,”); ?>

<div class=”post” id=”post-”>
<a href=”" rel=”bookmark”>
— @

Sam
#13. June 13th, 2008, at 6:30 PM.

I am trying to edit some text like “Leave a Reply” – I was able to do it without any problems in comments.php but now that value is being overridden by some other file – where can I change that text and also the number format of the comment?

Thanks,

g30rg3_x
#14. June 15th, 2008, at 11:56 PM.

@Erik: Check if your php settings allow the use of short_tags, in case this option is disabled you would need to copy the file paginated-comments.php to your current theme directory (of any of two themes presented in the directory /themes inside the plugin directory), if this does not resolve your problem, then you should check if your PHP version meets the requirements.

@Sam: Inside the directory /themes/ of the plugin is were the “paginated-comments” themes relay, you can modify this files directly or just copy this file to your current theme-directory and change there.

Regards

Dmitry
#15. July 9th, 2008, at 5:02 AM.

Hello,
plugin installed but I get error:

Call to undefined function ro_Paginated_Comments_template() in /home/sdfgdghdf/public_html/xxxxxxx.com/wp-content/plugins/paginated-comments/paginated-comments.php(417) : eval()’d code on line 28

Please, help!

g30rg3_x
#16. July 10th, 2008, at 10:55 AM.

Hi Dmitry,

You have installed and setup the plugin “Reverse Order Comments” by Otaku, this plugin its incompatible with Paginated Comments Plugin, so before using/testing Paginated Comments you will need to deactivate (and uninstall in your theme) “Reverse Order Comments” Plugin by otaku.

I suggest you to use Paginated Comments instead of the “Reverse Order Comments” Plugin by otaku, cause Paginated Comments can do the same as the “Reverse Order Comments” Plugin with REALLY much more features than that plugin.

Regards

Vladimir
#17. July 17th, 2008, at 3:22 AM.

HI

The plugin is great piece of work !

If I may suggested few features for next update:
- do not automatically add comment numbers as this breaks the templates
- add comments navigation before comments (leave them after too)
- page numbers should always be named 1, 2, 3 no matter if it’s asc or desc
- navigation CSS editable within a plugin

I’ve been using this plugin which had it implemented http: //blog.2i2j.com/plugins/wp-paged-comments

but was missing titles for each comment page.

Good job once more!

trevor
#18. July 17th, 2008, at 10:47 AM.

hi,
i’m trying to implement paginated comments on a PAGE (not post).

once i activate your plugin, it takes my page and changes it to say it has “the following sub-pages” and lists my main nav bar pages ??

also – it does not paginate the comments but instead gives me this error in the comment section:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /mysite.foo/wp-content/plugins/paginated-comments/paginated-comments.php on line 891

Would you have any advice as to what is happening there? thanks kindly!
trev

sam
#19. July 19th, 2008, at 4:42 PM.

Hi, Jim, great plug-in, I’ve been looking for something like it forever. I just have one question about it:

On my WP site, I have a custom Attachment.php page that I have hacked pretty extensively to get it to look the way I want it to. I have a lot of images on the site, and I use the attachment.php pretty extensively.

The problem with your plug-in is that, when activated, it sort of makes my attachment.php obsolete. I’m not sure what it does, I think it simply replaces my attachment.php with the standard default one — i.e. attachment.php is no longer loaded/use, I believe.

Is there a way to make the plug-in not do this?

Thanks, and again, great plugin!

Jim
#20. July 19th, 2008, at 6:00 PM.

@Vladimir:
If you read the personalization section you’ll see your issues are already covered. Anyone can do deep personalization over his/her wordpress powered blog template.

About static position of the number of pages: I found it really handy to have the most close pages rather than a 1,2,3,4,… even if the selected comment page is 50, i found it a little strange this behavior but thanks for the suggestion.

@trevor:
Weird, seems to be a template or plugin related issue, since the behavior you are describing is not part of the plugin.

Regards

fullo
#21. August 17th, 2008, at 9:11 AM.

It should be very useful to have ascending ordered posts BUT with the latest
page showed instead the first one when paginating comments in Wordpress.

fullo
#22. August 17th, 2008, at 11:33 AM.

my fault, I didn’t see the “default page” option :)

KC
#23. August 25th, 2008, at 7:58 AM.

I use the Paginated Comments plugin on my website and it generally works fine except for one problem, which may or may not be the fault of the plugin.

When you hover over the link to one of the pages of comments it shows a link of the type:

http: //www.address.com/?p=8724&cp=2#comments

However, because I have permalinks set to ‘day and name’, when the link is click the link that displays is of this type:

http: //www.address.com/2008/08/25/post-title/?cp=2#comments

This work fine when I click on the link, and it seems to work for most people. However others are finding that when they click on the link it doesn’t work, and sends them to the home page. This seems to happen regardless of which browser they use.

Can you suggest what the problem might be? I suspect it could be plugin or Wordpress-related.

Steve H/
#24. September 4th, 2008, at 2:22 PM.

I have installed your plug in on a blog that uses the German language
files from Wordpress, unfortunately when I activate your plug In all the text is then back in English and does not recognize the local language that is installed, when I deactivate your plug In I get the German text back again.

Is there anyway I can use your plug In on a German Language Website?

Thanks for any help

Dana
#25. September 20th, 2008, at 10:51 PM.

Love the plugin, one problem – on the main page of the site, all comments are posted – but if you click on the actual number of comments, then the pagination kicks in?

Zbigniew
#26. October 30th, 2008, at 10:56 AM.

Hello,

I’d like to do a Polish translation of pc and when I am done I will be
happy to send it to you to include in your next build. But I have one
question. How do I generate the two files (*.mo and *.po) to do it?
Many thanks for your reply!


Zbigniew Szalbot

jasmine
#27. November 21st, 2008, at 2:39 PM.

Hi Jim,
I am probably missing something simple, but is it possible to stop this plugin modifying the template, as it messes the layout of my comments.

thanks
jasmine

Jim
#28. November 21st, 2008, at 4:27 PM.

The theme that comes with paginated comments is a basic one, but you can modify this to fit your blogs theme exactly. In fact, some themes may not work right out of the box with it and so you’ll have to make that change.

Let me know if you need more detail.

Regards,

Jim.

peter
#29. December 6th, 2008, at 6:56 AM.

Thanks for this very useful plugin. It works excellent, but I might have found a (minor) bug: The plugin does not read its settings correctly. This happens after restoring a backup database. I am convinced that the backup database contains the PdCs settings, but they are not read.

The scenario:

1. I create and download a full mysql backup from my remote database (including the PdCs settings)
2. I ftp download all remote blogfiles.
3. I restore the mysql backup to my local database. Now I have a local (working) copy of my blog for development en testing.
4. The paginated comments do not work in this local copy.
5. When I open the settings of the plugin there are “weird” values, not mine, and not the default ones.
6. Entering the settings again and saving does not work (settings are not saved)

My workaround:

After step 3 I deactivate the plugin and activate it again. Now the settings have the default values again. I enter my preferrred settings again, and the plugin is OK again.

It’s no big deal for me, the workaround is good enough, but I thought I’d let you know.
FYI
Plugin version 1.0.3
WP version 2.6.3

Darren
#30. December 6th, 2008, at 4:51 PM.

Terrific plug-in, thanks! I finally figured out how to customize the templating by adding my changes to /wp-contents/plugins/paginated-comments/themes/mytheme/paginated-comments.php

One tiny note: I see you added the #comments anchor for pages 2+, which is great. But if I navigate back to Page 1, there is no #comments anchor. Not sure if this is deliberate, and it’s not a big deal (since people don’t tend to read comments backward), but I thought I’d mention it.

Thanks again!

akash
#31. December 7th, 2008, at 8:24 AM.

Hello, how to allow pagined comments only on certain posts

Thanks in advance..awaiting your kind reply and thanks for the amazing plugin

trevor
#32. December 18th, 2008, at 6:45 PM.

Hi Jim,

I hate to be a bother, but is the paginated comments plugin compatible with wp2.7 ?

I just upgraded and now it does not work at all….

If it’s working for others, then the problem must be on my end, so….could you let me know if you have tried it yourself or others are reporting no problems with wp2.7?

Thanks kindly,
trev

Jim
#33. December 18th, 2008, at 9:57 PM.

Hello Trevor,

I’m running that plugin on this very site and have a ton of paginated comments; no problems on my end, so I am assuming all is well.

UPDATE: Wordpress 2.7 does not work with the paginated comments plugin. We are working on an upgrade.

Thanks Trevor, I’m caching my pages and didn’t realize the code was not working with the new version of Wordpress until after I responded!

Best regards,

Jim

Jim
#34. December 24th, 2008, at 4:35 PM.

UPDATE: Wordpress 2.7 does not work with the paginated comments plugin. We are working on an upgrade.

Pero
#35. January 3rd, 2009, at 1:06 PM.

Is it possible to rename “Show all” when paginating comments?

Jim
#36. January 3rd, 2009, at 3:20 PM.

You can is you modify the paginated-comments.php file – look for:
if ( !isset($all) ) $all = __(‘Show All’, ‘paginated-comments’);
replace with
if ( !isset($all) ) $all = __(‘Show Everything’, ‘paginated-comments’);
But – keep in mind you’ll have to do this for every update of paginated comments!

Best regards,

Jim.

Miguel
#37. January 3rd, 2009, at 10:07 PM.

Great plugin

How I remove the page original content from “show all page”, the option to show only excerpt or nothing doesnt apply there. I dont want duplicated content from original post.

Pete
#38. January 30th, 2009, at 5:33 AM.

How do you use the Custom Fields?

I have one post on my blog where I would like the comments to be viewed in DESCENDING order, but I want all the rest of the posts to display comments in ASCENDING order (the default).

Specifically, it’s this post: sixwordstories.net/2008/12/submit/

It gets many, many comments, every single day — whereas, all the rest of the posts only get a handful of comments.

I see that there is Custom Field called “pcp_ordering” that does this, but I don’t know how to specify it for this one post.

Great plugin, by the way! It’s really improved my site.

aguitta
#39. February 5th, 2009, at 8:23 PM.

Hello,

Im having trouble with the translation. I tried editing the paginated-comments-es_ES.po to change a few words. But it was an intuitive try. The problem is the same as problem No. 4 from Laquer, I cant change the words and the spanish translation is getting all screwed up. I like the pluggin. MAybe you could advise,
Thank you,
Juanfra.

aguitta
#40. February 5th, 2009, at 8:24 PM.

oh…, forgot to tell you, im using UTF-8

Jim
#41. February 23rd, 2009, at 4:43 PM.

@Miguel:
By the moment there is no such suppport cause all comments on a single page was designed to be like if we were viewing in the old-way the comments, we will add a noindex,nofollow meta-header on that page on the next version of the plugin so it won’t be indexed by the robots.

@Pete:
Just go the Custom Fields section while adding/editing a new post/page and put the custom fields you want…
In your case put as name “pcp_ordering” and as value “desc” (without quotes) and that should do the job.

@aguitta:
First i suggest you read this documentation about the translation system used by wordpress and his plugins:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
Second you would need to recompile that custom translation (.po) in order to generate the translation (.mo) before using it, my preferred choice is software called poEdit cause its cross-platform and very intuitive..

Best Regards

Pete
#42. March 2nd, 2009, at 4:26 PM.

Thanks for the response!

I tried adding a custom field called pcp_ordering and setting the contents as both “asc” and “desc” — nothing happened. The posts are still sorted in the order I set in the preferences screen — ie, the preferences are not over-ridden for the individual post. Any ideas?

Jim
#43. March 6th, 2009, at 1:17 PM.

@Pete
After reviewing that part of the plugin seems that some old code from in development version was left there also the filtration for the others custom fields was so tough that they seems to not work (not anymore).
I will be releasing a version 1.0.5 which will cover your problem and the miguel suggestion for seo all-pages.
If you want a momentary workaround the open your paginated-comments.php plugin file (not template) found the line 719 and you will find this:

$PdCs_Settings['EPC_comments_ordering'] = ( preg_match('/\A(asc|desc)\Z/', $val) ) ? $val : 'desc';

Change that for

$PdCs_Settings['comments_ordering'] = ( preg_match('/\A(asc|desc)\Z/', $val) ) ? $val : 'desc';

(as you can see the problem is related that i forget to delete the “EPC_” tag in the array-key code which was the way this function was called under first development of the plugin).
And this should the job for especially pcp_ordering, others will need some more code changes so just await for the 1.0.5 if you don’t want or know how to edit php-code.

Regards

Marios Alexandrou
#44. March 12th, 2009, at 3:24 PM.

Thanks for creating this plug-in. It’s got about 98% of what I was looking for. What’s the remaining 2%? Glad you asked :-) I think it would be useful to be able to indicate a different number of comments on the main article page than on subsequent pages. Keep the main article page clean with just a small number of comments, but anyone that wants to read comments can do so easily because subsequent pages could be set to have 20+ to scroll through. Combined with SEO for Paged Comments which uses just the article excerpt on comment pages and we’d have a perfect solution.

Sheamus
#45. March 24th, 2009, at 4:54 AM.

Hi

Installed the plugin. It didn’t mesh well with K2 so I’ve reverted back to a modified Kubrick (it’s an old blog I no longer update but still gets good traffic).

The plugin works 100% perfectly if I set the comments to display in descending order. However, I want it ascending, and when I do that each time a new comment is submitted it results in a 404 error.

I can see what the problem is, but have no idea how to fix it!

When set to descending comments, the plugin takes the user back to their last comment. Fine.

But when set to ascending, it adds ‘&cp=1′ before the hashed comment tag (i.e., ‘&cp=1#comment-4305′) in the URL and that produces a 404. The ‘&cp=1′ part is not there when the plugin is set to descending.

The comment does get through, but obviously a 404 error is not great for visitors. :)

You can test it here if you like:

iamsheamus.com/everything-else/dawn-day-life-feeling-good/

Feel free to leave a comment.

Any ideas? It’s great otherwise.

Thanks,
Sheamus

Wolfi
#46. March 30th, 2009, at 3:54 AM.

hi there,

i’ve a little problem. the plugin itself works fine, but if it is activatet i have problems with my single.php!!

evry single artikel (respectively: it should be one article) has 4 articles within! so its the original article itself but also the articles that are shown in the “more article box”, which gets the last 4 articles of this category.

I think there is problem between the query of the posts and your plugin.

may you can help me please!?
please anser me on my e-mail!

thanks a lot
many greetings
wolfi

Sandy
#47. April 17th, 2009, at 11:09 PM.

Hi,

Gave your comment paginator a try and works pretty good except of course on the theme that I am interested in using. I’m new to WP so go easy as I try to describe :)

Comments to a post are normally in a gray box with an avitar to the left for, then the next and so on. When I install your plug in things look almost OK, except the comment is now out of alignment with the box and the display is a bit ‘messed up’

example (I’ll leave it up for a while)

theunmutual.com/blog/?p=42

If you have any tips on where to start looking (Maybe div names getting changed and CSS of theme not working?)

Thanks for any help.

Sandy

Dean
#48. June 14th, 2009, at 2:56 AM.

I have the “User Photo” plugin which uploads and stores avatars locally, it worked fine until I installed Paginated Comments. Some how it strips the Avatar out of my single.php. The Avatars show fine in the comment section, but the post sitting on top of the comments no longer has the author’s avatar.

The only way I’ve been able to get it back is to deactivate the paginated plugin. Have the same prob with “Paged Comments” plug. Wondering if you could take a guess at what I’m doing wrong?

thx
dean

Dean
#49. June 19th, 2009, at 7:02 PM.

Ok! I got User Photo to behave along side of your Paginated Comments plugin. The next wrinkle I would like to iron out is, is there a way to have the comment form show only on the last page?

If a topic has multiple pages of comments I’d like to think people had read them rather than give them the chance to reply from page 1. Basically because their questions or opinions my have already been addressed in comments pages elsewhere.

What I’d like to see:

[1] 2 3 4 5 Reply

The “Reply” would open up the last page of comments at the comment form.

Also I’ve noticed that when you click the Submit Comment button the page regenerates and it sends you back to the head of the thread, instead of the comment you’ve just submitted. Is there something in WordPress that can have the user sitting at his comment after submission instead of having to navigate back to it?

thx
dean

baron
#50. July 6th, 2009, at 7:22 AM.

hi. not compatible with all in one seo pack or platinum seo pack.
I’ve tried them all (seo plugins). There are 2 meta tags. I do not want them to meta all in one seo pack platinum seo pack.

example:

<!– all in one seo pack 1.5.7 ob_start_detected [-1,-1] –>

<!– platinum seo pack 1.2.6 –>


Or

<!– platinum seo pack 1.2.6 –>

baron
#51. July 6th, 2009, at 7:28 AM.

hi. not compatible with all in one seo pack or platinum seo pack.
I’ve tried them all (seo plugins). There are 2 meta tags. I do not want them to meta all in one seo pack platinum seo pack.

example:

all in one seo pack 1.5.7 ob_start_detected [-1,-1] -->
meta name="description" content="xxx" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxxx" /
link rel="canonical" href="xxx" /

all in one seo pack

Start Paginated Comments -->
meta name="description" content="xxx Comment Page 1" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxx,Comment,Page,1" /
End Paginated Comments

platinum seo pack 1.2.6 -->
meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /
meta name="description" content="xxx" />
meta name="keywords" content="xxx />
link rel="canonical" href="xxx/" /
platinum one seo pacl


Or

Start Paginated Comments
meta name="description" content="xxx Comment Page 1" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxx,Comment,Page,1" /
End Paginated Comments

platinum seo pack 1.2.6
meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /
meta name="description" content="xxx" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxx /
link rel="canonical" href="xxx/" /
platinum one seo pack

baron2
#52. July 6th, 2009, at 7:28 AM.

hi. not compatible with all in one seo pack or platinum seo pack.
I’ve tried them all (seo plugins). There are 2 meta tags. I do not want them to meta all in one seo pack platinum seo pack.

example:

all in one seo pack 1.5.7 ob_start_detected [-1,-1] -->
meta name="description" content="xxx" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxxx" /
link rel="canonical" href="xxx" /

all in one seo pack

Start Paginated Comments -->
meta name="description" content="xxx Comment Page 1" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxx,Comment,Page,1" /
End Paginated Comments

platinum seo pack 1.2.6 -->
meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /
meta name="description" content="xxx" />
meta name="keywords" content="xxx />
link rel="canonical" href="xxx/" /
platinum one seo pacl


Or

Start Paginated Comments
meta name="description" content="xxx Comment Page 1" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxx,Comment,Page,1" /
End Paginated Comments

platinum seo pack 1.2.6
meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /
meta name="description" content="xxx" /
meta name="keywords" content="xxx /
link rel="canonical" href="xxx/" /
platinum one seo pack

VerbalKint27
#53. July 8th, 2009, at 8:12 AM.

Hi mate,

Installed this plugin, however it overwrites my template design on the comments section.

I have a dark sheet colour and it takes away the white backgrounds to my comments, and leaves the writing black. Have no problem with this if it’s easy to change the text colour, but I’m useless with code, so have no idea what I need to change.

Cheers in advance.

Strictly Online Biz
#54. July 10th, 2009, at 9:48 AM.

So far so good appears to be working fine for me. The only hard part is getting the plug-in’s template to fit into your theme’s design structure. I had to copy everything from my theme’s comment.php into paginate-comments.php found in the theme, default folder. I deleted classic as it’s redundant.
Thanks for the plug-in

Jim
#55. July 10th, 2009, at 11:00 AM.

You may need to tweak the plugin’s template as you mentioned above, but after that, it’s a snap.

I use this plugin and it works great for me, as with this site for example :)

Glad it’s working for you as well!

Have a great day!

Jim

Mike
#56. July 29th, 2009, at 10:04 PM.

Hey Jim,

Great plugin. Can it work alongside the built in threaded comments feature in 2.7+

Thanks

Chris
#57. August 15th, 2009, at 8:08 AM.

I installed your plugin and tried some changes in the tool’s settings.
Nothing changed. I only want to have 10 comments.
Watch this page
C-SALSA.COM/dance-shoes
What am I doing wrong?

Geek Heaven
#58. August 24th, 2009, at 11:12 AM.

I love your plug-in, it has made navigation of my site much easier. However, since adding your plugin, it changes the background color to grey when it should be white. For the site in question (factpile.com) I am using the exact same theme as you are for your bedbugs site.

Any insight you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul

Jim
#59. August 24th, 2009, at 1:28 PM.

Hey Paul,

Awesome looking site!

Inside the paginated comments directory, you’ll find themes/classics/paginated-comments.php

You need to modify that for your website’s colors. You do that by changing the div names to what you are using in your themes comments.php file.

Hope that helps!

Jim

Alexander
#60. September 20th, 2009, at 6:28 AM.

Hello Jim,
It’s a great plugin and I’ve had no problems so far. But today, suddenly (out of nothing) I’ve started getting the following error:

Fatal error: [] operator not supported for strings in /home/h2/s/sl/***/vhosts/***/public_html/wp-includes/general-template.php on line 32

Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in /home/h2/s/sl/***/vhosts/***/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 339

Can you help me? I’m using the latest version of Wordpress, I also have your plugin activated at another blog, which is also WP 2.8.4, and has similar configuration (but no problems there)… please help me! Thanks in advance… Alex

Alexander
#61. September 20th, 2009, at 6:58 AM.

Sorry… I found out what breaks your plugin. It’s one new plugin I’ve tried at the blog: Category & Page I c o n s

Thanks for the great plugin you’ve made! It itself works flawlessly :)

biz1
#62. September 21st, 2009, at 8:14 AM.

how can i include the pagination plugin in a custom page i`ve made for wordpress?

Amanda
#63. October 2nd, 2009, at 6:08 AM.

Hey Jim! :)

I’m using your plugin on Wordpress 2.8.4- I know Wordpress has paginated comments now, but I don’t use the wp_list_comments function (because it won’t let me customize my comment section the way I want!) so their pagination doesn’t work. Yours lets me separate my comment pages *and* have a customized comment section! Thanks!

I also separate my comments from trackbacks/pingbacks. The tracks/pings appear under the comment form. As a side effect of the plugin, the tracks and pings now only appear on the “Show all” comment page.

Do you know if there’s a way to get the tracks and pings to show on *all* comment pages?

Here’s an example page:

kevinandamanda.com/whatsnew/new-pictures/birthday-bliss.html

If you just go to that page, you don’t see the trackback down at the bottom, but if you click on page 2 or Show All, you can see the trackback. Ideally, I’d like for people to be able to see the tracks and pings on the main page, if possible! :)

Thanks so much for your help- please let me know if you need anymore information. :)

Peter
#64. October 30th, 2009, at 4:52 AM.

Hi there,
really appriate this plugin, it’s exactly what I was looking for. The only issue I’m having is to display the “reply” link to allow users to answer to comments. In you description:

“Default and classic theme upgraded to work with latest features of wordpress 2.8 (comments threaded and reply to comments are supported but not fully working).”

What should I do to make the reply functionality working with this plugin?

Thanks for your answer.

henry
#65. November 12th, 2009, at 1:13 AM.

For those having trouble with the Spanish translation. I used Poedit and opened the .po file, then saved it to create a new .mo file, I uploaded this new file and it worked. Good luck.

slnc
#66. December 31st, 2009, at 4:05 PM.

Thanks for the plugin. The language files for es_ES are severely broken in the latest version. I had to manually delete them in order to make any sense of the configuration screen.

kyper
#67. January 12th, 2010, at 9:58 AM.

Hi Jim
congratulations for your pretty useful plugin. I am using WP 2.7 and will not be able to migrate to a later version of WP (search engine availability related to the themes I have in use)
I have a question regarding nested comments. I believe nesting is suppressed/not possible with the current version of paginated comments. Any plans in supporting nesting in the future?

Honey
#68. January 18th, 2010, at 9:45 AM.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu sooooooooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I’ve been searching for all these explanation a whole month. thank you and I hope god gives you whatever you WANT :) )

Honey
#69. January 18th, 2010, at 10:00 AM.

I think there is missing a part
( Comments should be displayed with the newer/older comments at the top of each page )
any idea?
it’s important that the latest comment is displayed at the bottom of the page for me and the latest comments are displayed in the first page. seems it’s impossible with this plugin :( (

Honey
#70. January 19th, 2010, at 8:11 AM.

ok I got that I have to set the default to last page ;)
thank you so much

Miguel
#71. April 25th, 2010, at 10:22 PM.

Hello

I have tried insert the new WP feature “threaded comment” in the default plugin template and cannot :(

Someone have success on this? I see the question, but not the answerI would ve thankful if you can post a paginated comments template with support to the “reply” link below the comments text

I have seen some themes which even add an expansable form to reply when you click on the link, but have no idea how to make this.

Miguel
#72. April 27th, 2010, at 12:10 AM.

I was wondering if is possible to have only the X last comments on the post and only the “show all” page for the rest, i.e one comments page for post, and only a few in the single post bost.

Mike R.
#73. May 15th, 2010, at 9:57 PM.

Jim,

Thanks for the plugin! One question, I have a live site and a mockup site on different hosts. From what I can tell, everything is identical with the sites with the exception of the PHP version. The live site has 4.4.7 and the mockup has 5.2.4. I’m seeing different behavior when someone is viewing the last page of comments while submitting a comment. After the comment is submitted on the live site, the user is returned to the first page of comments. On the mockup, the user stays on the last page. The latter behavior is desired.

Any ideas how to fix the live site?

Thanks,
-Mike

fil
#74. May 23rd, 2010, at 7:42 AM.

Very very very good…
please don’t abandon this plugin :(

Jim
#75. May 23rd, 2010, at 8:20 AM.

Hi Fil,

I am afraid with the new changes in the next version of Wordpress that this plugin has reached it’s end of life.

Now with rel canonical, you can have multiple pages of comments with rel=canonical pointing to the main page of all comments – in this way, you are telling the search engines that these comment pages are duplicates of the one main page.

I’m still wrapping up issues with the conversion of this site, but once I have it completed, I’ll update the information on how to do this and how to make sure that it’s working!

fil
#76. June 2nd, 2010, at 4:58 AM.

Thank you for your reply..

but is possible that now with this plugin and wp 2.9.2 i can’t edit my comments.php? xD I edit it but i haven’t changement…
for example i’ve delete all the file comments.php and my blog work yet normally XDXDXD

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