[Plugin: WP-Paginate] Unable to paginate comments

Do you have a link that I can see. Not really sure what is going on unless you have something else that is paginating the comments elsewhere…

Sure.
https://www.purplepinkandorange.com/blog/?p=6543

It is calculating the number of pages of comments that would be needed (in this case 6 pages for 148 comments at 25 comments per page), but not actually making them into pages. I think maybe I just have the code in the wrong place possibly?

Here’s my comments.php code:

<?php if ( !empty($post->post_password) && $_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) : ?>
<p><?php _e('Enter your password to view comments.'); ?></p>
<?php return; endif; ?>

<h3comments id="comments"><?php comments_number(__('No Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?>
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
	<a href="#postcomment" title="<?php _e("Leave a comment"); ?>">&raquo;</a>
<?php endif; ?>
</h3comments>

<?php if ($comments) : ?>
<div id="commentwrap">
 <ol class="commentlist">

 <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

  <li class="<?=$oddcomment;?>">
   <img border="0" style="padding:1px; float:left; margin:0px 10px 5px 0px; border:1px solid #ccc;" alt="avatar" src="<?php gravatar("R", 48, get_option('home')."/wp-content/themes/ArtSee/images/avatar.gif"); ?>" />

   <a name="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></a><cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite> says:<br />

   <div class="comment-inside"><!--<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title="<?php comment_date('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?>"><?php /* $entry_datetime = abs(strtotime($post->post_date)); $comment_datetime = abs(strtotime($comment->comment_date)); echo time_since($entry_datetime, $comment_datetime) */ ?></a> after publication. <?php edit_comment_link('e','',''); ?></small>-->
   <small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?></a> (<?php $commentNumber++; echo $commentNumber; ?>)  <?php edit_comment_link('edit','',''); ?></small>

   <?php comment_text() ?>
   </div>
</li>

 <?php endforeach; ?>

 </ol>

<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>

<?php else : // If there are no comments yet ?>
	<p><?php _e('No comments yet.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

<p>
<?php if ( pings_open() ) : ?>
	<a href="<?php trackback_url() ?>" rel="trackback"><?php _e('TrackBack <abbr title="Universal Resource Locator">URL</abbr>'); ?></a>
<?php endif; ?>
</p>

<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<h3comments id="postcomment"><?php _e('Leave a comment'); ?></h3comments>

<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php printf(__('You must be <a href="%s">logged in</a> to post a comment.'), get_option('siteurl')."/wp-login.php?redirect_to=".urlencode(get_permalink()));?></p>
<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

<p><?php printf(__('Logged in as %s.'), '<a href="'.get_option('siteurl').'/wp-admin/profile.php">'.$user_identity.'</a>'); ?> <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="<?php _e('Log out of this account') ?>"><?php _e('Log out &raquo;'); ?></a></p>

<?php else : ?>

<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />
<label for="author"><small><?php _e('Name'); ?> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email"><small><?php _e('Mail');?> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website'); ?></small></label></p>

<?php endif; ?>

<!--<p><small><strong>XHTML:</strong> <?php printf(__('You can use these tags: %s'), allowed_tags()); ?></small></p>-->

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Submit Comment')); ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
</p>
<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>

</form>

<?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>

<?php else : // Comments are closed ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.'); ?></p>

<?php if(function_exists('wp_paginate_comments')) {
		wp_paginate_comments();} ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Hey i’m getting the same issue…

https://gorskys.christom.com.au/dog/see-a-picture-of-a-dog/comment-page-2/#comments (U:gorskys P:poke123)
I have left the standard wordpress pagination in for testing. The code was added to comments.php.
‘Break comments into pages with’ is set to 7.

The pagination appears but does not break the comments up

WP-Paginate version 1.1.1
Wordpress version 2.9.1

Thanks,

Christom

The plugin just displays the pagination, it does not handle the actual “chunking” of the comments.

I’ve tested this with the default theme and it works fine. How are you displaying the comments?

@amypurple – your code is displaying all of the comments by iterating over the entire set. You’d need to use one of the built-in functions to display them or change your logic to handle the ones to display.

emartin24 – can you perhaps explain that further in terms of what I need to do specifically? I’m sorry, I’m confused. Thank you.

@amypurple – instead of doing a foreach on all of the comments, try using one of the built-in functions, like wp_list_comments. You can even specify a callback if you want to customize the format.

Eric, I’m trying to figure out whether your plugin can help me. I need to separate comments from the posts, but I’d like to keep a comment form below the posts. When a comment posts, I’d like it to direct the commenter to the comments page. Can I use it to do that? Or is there an easier way? Thanks.

rawarrior – this plugins is for creating the pagination links for posts and/or comments. It sounds like what you are asking can be solved with updating the single.php and comments.php files.