Comment permalinks need pagination in notification emails

  • Andrew Wilder

    (@eatingrules)


    11 years ago

    Hi,

    A site I manage receives a lot of comments, and we have the comments paginated. In Settings->Discussion, we have “Break Comments into pages with 25 top level comments per page and the last page displayed by default.” We also have comments should be displayed with the older comments at the top of each page.

    When a new comment notification is emailed to our comment moderator, it includes a comment permalink like this:

    https://oursite.com/blog-post/#comment-12345

    The problem is that by the time our moderator clicks the link, the comment is often already buried on an internal page (because at least one more page of comments has already appeared) — so the anchor #comment-12345 doesn’t do any good. She then has to page through the comments manually to find the comment, which is time-consuming and frustrating.

    The permalink really needs to include the paginated link, like this
    https://oursite.com/blog-post/comment-page-2/#comment-12345

    I recognize that when the comment is originally left, it’s on the most recent comment page (even if it’s already the Nth page of comments), so WordPress omits hardcoding the comment page to create a cleaner permalink. But it’s killing us!

    Is there any way to get the permalink in the notification email to include the pagination information?

    Thanks!

    – Andrew

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