Frequently Asked Questions

We have not yet been asked any questions regarding paged comments (other than "can it be done"? ;) )

Enhancement Suggestions

Of course, since designing the code, we've thought of several ways to make paged commenting even better. If you have any suggestions, please email us with them and we'll add them to the list. Even better, if you use this code and add these enhancements (or others), let us know and we'll post your changes and/or code for others to enjoy. You will be credited for any work you contribute.

Ideas:

• Page Number Links: Rather than controls that navigate forward or backward a page at a time, they could consist of page number links. At a glance, visitors could see how many pages of comments there were. With a click, they could navigate to a page of their choosing. Additionally, an "all" link, could show all the comments (like b2evolution does by default) in one long, scrollable list. Here's a WordPress paged comment plugin example that utilizes such navigational controls.
• Older->Newer Listing for Newer-Older Pages: People might like the idea of listing the newest comments first, because the newest comments are accessible. But reading comment #150 before #149, before #148, etc., makes it difficult to follow any threads. A better way would be to have the newest comments on the first page, but ordered on the page from oldest to newest, continuing in this manner all the way to the last page, which contains the oldest comments.