Comments on: Tutorial: Howto Increase the Number of Comments Visible in WordPress Editor

By: How to adjust the number of comments displayed in Wordpress 2.6 admin panel | Rough Groove

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:53:45 +0000

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By: John P.

John P. — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:14:52 +0000

Debi,

This modification only affects the number of comments that show up on the back end of the blog in the administration page. Your theme and plugins will affect the number that show up on the actual blog for readers. By default ALL comments will show up on the same page, so I use the threaded comments plugin to show only about 25 at a time to my readers.

You can see my entire list of plugins here.

John

By: Debi

Debi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:29:16 +0000

This may seem like an odd question….I’m fairly new to blogging. Why would you want to have more than 20 comments showing? Won’t lots of comments on each article eventually make your blog tough to scroll through? And if you want more than 20, is 50 the max you consider putting in there?

I like the idea of shortening the number of chars that show up. It would assist with some of the scrolling issues, along with giving your readers the opportunity to select from more comments, and then select the ones that they want to get complete details on.

Thanks for the great info you provide!
Debi J

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Wp Wordpress » Blog Archive » WordPress Talk - March 11, 2008 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:39:47 +0000

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By: 3gp

3gp — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:31:53 +0000

Thanks alot john i love your tutorials they are amazing simple understand able just few lines of code and it is done. Wow you rock Sir

By: Mistergin

Mistergin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:31:48 +0000

Good idea John. Haven’t had any big hitting stories recently, but a few months ago I had one on animal abuse that is still popular (almost 600 comments or so?) and while they trickle in now, when it was posted, I was doing the same..

While I’m in that code, I’d also recommend modifying Akismnet (however it’s spelled lol), to trim the comment to only the first 300 characters or so. When checking for false positives it’s tedious because some of the comment spam that gets caught is hundreds of links in a single post.

Bookmarked :)

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:35:14 +0000

Sir John,
thank you for that, just did it, now I just need that much comments… hehe

cheers

Rhoody