Comment Threading is Here! (Plus Other Cool Comment Settings)
You asked, and we listened. Introducing threaded comments, comment paging, and comment order settings for your WordPress.com blog.
Go to Settings > Discussion in your dashboard, and you’ll discover three new options in the “Other comments settings” section:
- “Enable comments [x] levels deep”
- “Break comments into pages with [x] comments per page and the [first or last] page displayed by default”
- “Comments should be displayed with the [newer or older] comments at the top of each page”
With the threaded comments option, you can connect and interact with your readers while easily keeping track of who’s saying what to whom. You control the conversation by setting the number of levels allowed in your comment threads, from 1 to 10. (Ten levels deep means nine replies under each comment — that’s a lot!)
We suggest setting threaded comments to about three levels deep, to keep the conversation focused. Here’s how that looks with the Contempt theme:
To save you and your readers from scroll-finger strain, you can now break up comments into pages. You decide where to cut the thread, and whether to display the first or last page of comments as the starting point.
The default settings on your blog used to put the newest comment at the bottom. Now the order is up to you. If you want your readers to know what’s latest first, display the newest comment at the top. If you think it’s important to know the history of a conversation, display the oldest comment at the top.
It’s all part of our goal to help you improve the level of interaction on your blog, and give you more control over the look and feel of your blog.
- February 19, 2009
- Themes
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yahooooo!!!!!!!!!
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SCORE! I didn’t actually think WordPress would implement this. You guys ROCK!
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Thats cool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot….
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Great! i was waiting for this threaded comment option since long…..
At least it looks to me now that the replies by the author to the comments section will look more fresh and there will remain some difference between reader comments and author comments. Am i right?
Thanks…
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Right, but also note that if reader comments and author comments are different and how they are styled may depend on the theme you are using.
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not bad
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Wow, “Comment Quoting”… very cool! Thanks, WordPress!
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great, many thanks…
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Sounds great. ive to test it!
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Things are just getting better and better in here! Wonder what else you guys have up your sleeves…
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Finally!!!
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More important – is Matt sending photos to everyone in the office of his trip to the Taj Mahal?
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Matt
always posts pictures at http://ma.tt/ 🙂
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Woohoo! Thanks WP team, you guys rock!
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That’s great!
Will it be possible to have a pull down menu near one’s name when posting a comment at someone else’s blog in order to choose one’s own blog that should be linked to from the poster’s name? I have three blogs at WP, and I don’t want to direct people blogging about Poland to a blog about Jane Austen. At this moment it’s possible to change it only from one’s profile, but it’s a big burden when I’m about to comment and have to go back to my Dashboard and change the settings, not to mention that I never remember what were my latest settings, so I have to check that anyway. In effect I often don’t comment because I don’t have the time.
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Thanks very much for the suggestion. We’ll keep that in mind for future updates.
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Another great innovation from WordPress, you guys are really on top of your game, Viva la WordPress!!!
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Why is there no support for http://intensedebate.com/ ? Seems like a perfect fit.
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Intense Debate features will be rolled out on WordPress.com later this year.
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Nicely done…
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OMG thank you, you just made my freaking week.
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Thank’s WORDPRESS, success for you
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I want to move comment to another post (or page). What’s the way so I can do it?
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Sorry but you cannot move comments between posts or pages.
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tht is fantabulous!!! Seeing this option in self hosted blogs, i was considering moving into a self hosted blog as well (in spite of the pains involved) now I have no reason even to think of it! 🙂
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assalamualaikum
oh my!!!!!!!
i remember i actually asked for this..ve been waiting aaageess!!!!!!
o thank u soo much,
and yes i asked and u did listen!so tru!
wow cant believe u’ve finally got it!
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finally, yet another reason to ❤ wordpress more than i already do 😀
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This is great! What a nice and cool feature!
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wow…
thanks…
this makes my blog tidier
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this is absolutely cool! i was thinking… how about threaded posts as well? it’s something like a follow-up, just that more recent posts are displayed in front, and so on.
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I’m not sure about threaded posts as a feature, there are already categories and tags to organize posts about similar topics.
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Thank you. That’s something I needed!
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Heather, is this template (on this page) available for wordpress blogs?
If not.. you could use it.. 🙂
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It’s not available. Sorry!
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That’s really great, a very nice change in WordPress comments. I was waiting foe something like that. Really Awesome!
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thank you very much for the improvements ^^
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Great stuff, kids, great stuff and thank you for your constant ambition to improve and perfect what’s already a fantastic tool.
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awesome. thanks
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woo hoo! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
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Yes! This IS very cool.
I wanted to mention one drawback for posts that garner many many comments. Normally, when I keep up with discussions, everytime I go back to look for new comments, I shoot to the bottom. With this, if there are new comments/replies, it would be hard to find them unless I scrolled through the entire thread to maybe spot replies. I feel as though this would hinder some discussion because I doubt many people are willing to do that.
What I’m getting at is that I think I’ve seen elsewhere that any new comment that was added since you last visited the page is somehow highlighted so you know it is new. I think this would help with discussion purposes. Something to keep in mind for future tweaks!
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This is great stuff. Thanks.
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thx a lot!
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Huh? I don’t really get it.
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Yes! … Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about.
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This is GREAT improvement, BRAVO!!
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Thanks for the new possibilities you present us constantly with!
Now, if I understand it correctly, we can have either newer-to-older comments or vice-versa, but this throughout the whole blog. I mean, I would like very much to have in the special page where my readers put their announcements (those at least who I can’t convince yet to start wp blogging and rss-feeding yet 🙂 ) and there it would be nice to have newer first. But then I need older first in my posts –is there maybe some clever workaround?
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The settings are for the whole blog only. Sorry but there isn’t a workaround for that.
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Muchisimas Gracias! Verdaderamente!
I migrated here in Summer 2006 and the love affair is still going strong.
I’ve learned so much!
Thank you again,
Tomato
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Excellent. Threaded comments have always been a big selling point for me with LiveJournal. Good on you.
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AWESOME!! thanks WP
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Thank you it’s an awesome addition keep them coming !!
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Lovely Jubblee
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threaded comments are hot
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2 Things:
a. tacos
b. finally! 😉
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Perfect… even for not so busily commented posts.
Improvements are always on the move, thanks WP Team !
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very good ;D
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The comment threads are great I just wish everyone would catch on on how to use them. I try to start a thread and people start a new thread when they should have been in the thread I started. Oh well, maybe they will learn in time.
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Oh thats perfect 🙂 Thanks for that
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Yesterday, I passed the board examination for Nurses. and today, this?!!! I must be really lucky. Thanks.
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OMG, Now i believe that God listened to my pray!
Thank You WP!
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A very useful feature! I really hope, the big blogs with sometimes more than 50 comments will enable this functions. It would be so much easier following conversations…
Thank you for this great feature!
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That’s awesome. Thanks!
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Avesome!!! Thanks a lot!
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Pretty cool. Thanks.
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ROCK ! No contest !
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Wow! That’s simply fabulous! Thanx! 🙂
Just another request… Let the TOP POSTS widget (or some other new feature) show max. viewed posts as per overall statistics(total number of visits) as it shows up in the dashboard and not as per recent-visits-data.
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Kooool, man!
Activating. I truly ❤ WordPress.
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haaaiiiyaaa……. cool stuff.
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hi as new here i watch all posts,that partcular seems cool,i really enjoy time here and try to find new items to add in my wordpress.com page 🙂
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Finally! Thank u very much 😀
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Thank you so much!! 🙂
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if you can add a “like” botton to this post i think i would clic it forever! 😛
great!
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Awesome !! but when the blog owner replies it should not be counted as a new comment. Can we have something like that ? Like we edit the comments and add reply as inline comment. you know what I mean ?
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I think I do, yes. Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll keep that in mind.
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It was high time, we had this one available at wordpress as well. This is a great new feature added.
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Its great feature, wp rocks
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These are very cool new features… thanks!!!
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Just awesome… I love ya!
Thankxxxxooooxxxooo
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awesome!!!! wp rocks!!! XD
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Oooh, I like this! Great work!
Now how about those new themes… with customizable headers? 🙂
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Check out the latest one: Vigilance. It has a custom header option.
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You’ve done it again….Great Job peeps!
Cheers
😉
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Still wishing we could use commentluv on wordpress.com — so the name of peoples’ latest posts will show up when they comment — sure helps networking
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whoa, awesome! I was just thinking about if wordpress could give some ability to control those crazy comments. they’re getting “crowded” 😀
Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu……for this!
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thanks for these options i was waiting for them
and we also want to be able to upload text based files like txt , cpp
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We provide a number of text-based document options, and in fact just added some new file types to our accepted file types list. Check it out.
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Thank You!
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And this is why I love WordPress. 😀
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niCe iNfo..
^^
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There is a rather ironic lack of threaded comments on this posting!
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