{"id":133,"date":"2007-02-20T00:27:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-02-20T00:27:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T23:27:14","slug":"a-wordpress-flaw-no-paged-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/133-a-wordpress-flaw-no-paged-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"A WordPress flaw: no paged comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A snag with the most wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress<\/a> is that comments to a post are not broken down into pages. With over eighty comments and climbing fast, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=54\" target=\"_blank\">post on slow Outlook 2007<\/a> is getting slow to load. Fitting, I guess, but I&#8217;d rather it performed better. I looked in vain for a WordPress option to split the comments into pages. I did find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyvan.net\/code\/paged-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\">this plugin<\/a>, but although it works it looks bad with the theme I&#8217;m using. I suppose a few hours hacking would fix it. I reckon a paging option should be built into WordPress as it will always be a problem on heavily commented posts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:700e96b6-0f38-438a-9b94-af3a6156f03b\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/wordpress\" rel=\"tag\">wordpress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/comments\" rel=\"tag\">comments<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snag with the most wonderful WordPress is that comments to a post are not broken down into pages. With over eighty comments and climbing fast, this post on slow Outlook 2007 is getting slow to load. Fitting, I guess, but I&#8217;d rather it performed better. I looked in vain for a WordPress option to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/133-a-wordpress-flaw-no-paged-comments.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A WordPress flaw: no paged comments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}