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WordPress Paged Comments Plugin by Keyvan Minouk

I had a request from my blog readers to add a comment number so they can easily refer to that comment for just saying the comment number. WordPress Paged Comments Plugin is what I’m looking for, since the post Talk About Euro American Index got so many comments.

WordPress Paged Comments is a plugin for WordPress 1.5 and 2.x to allow comment paging. Useful for those popular blog entries receiving many comments, or a simple guestbook page within WordPress.

To download the plugin, visit WordPress Paged Comments and follow the instructions.

Installation for WordPress 1.5 and 2.x

If you’re upgrading from a previous version, skip these installation steps and read the upgrade steps.

1. Download and extract plugin files to a folder locally.
2. Edit paged-comments-config-sample.php to configure, then save the file as paged-comments-config.php.
3. Upload the whole paged-comments directory to /wp-content/plugins/. The plugin files should now be in /wp-content/plugins/paged-comments/.
4. Enable the plugin through the WordPress admin interface. That’s it for WordPress 2 users!
5. WordPress 1.5 users: If you enabled the fancy_url feature in step 2, edit your .htaccess file and enter these lines:

RewriteRule ^(.+/)comment-page-([0-9]+)/?$ $1?cp=$2 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^(.+/)all-comments/?$ $1?cp=all [QSA,L]

at the end of the file beneath the ‘#END WordPress’ marker (this ensures WordPress leaves the rule alone when updating the other rewrite rules).

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.

WordPress Paged Comments Plugin by Keyvan Minouk.