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
Wp feature that i’m waiting for finally release 🙂 thanks
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Great, Cool, and… Nice 😀
This is what I want 😉
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Can we have bolded solid lines for upper border and lower border of a topic and all its responses? It is now very difficult to spot out the topics.
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The appearance of threaded comments varies by theme. You may try previewing another theme under Appearance > Themes to see if others suit your blog better.
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By the way, can we have all comments grouped and sorted by the names of people who posted them?
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Full implementation – 10 deep entries. Spread the word!
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great stuff!!
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I’ve read comment TRADING – that was very intriguing.. and it’s just threading … duh… this feature is slight an old well known achievement ;>
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Great tool – thanks once again 😀
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It’s very cool, i like it a lot, but still the administrator comments were count on each post. Can the administrator comments uncount on each post? Thanx WP!!!
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Dude,
how about make “sticky posts”.
I want some old post appears on the top (sticky) , similar to “gadget” at blogger.com
Thanks
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Good news: sticky posts is already a feature! Just click on “visibility” in the publish module next to the text editor and select the sticky option.
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Thank you 🙂
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Cool upgrade dude…
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Awesome! Great feature. Thanks!
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AWESOMENESS!!! THANKS WP!!!
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Nice, thank you!
My number one requested feature is comment preview. I hope this is in the works
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what have must i do?
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See Changing Themes to learn how to change your WordPress.com blog theme.
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wicked! 😀
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it’s nice…i like it
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Thank you
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cool as always guyz:-)
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A good pack to track the comment lines. So stay hooked and linked!
Thanks for the enhanced feauture on WordPress for blogging more huggingly!
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Yeah, that’s one of the Features, we missed before! Thanx 😉
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Yeah. Big thx for that new feature and the amazing Vigilance theme.
>> WordPress rules the Bloggosphere <<
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Nice info, thank’s alot.. 🙂
Wordpress much better..
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i just love it! thanks!!
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This is great, thanks!
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Very nice. I had a friend ask about threaded comments just a few weeks before. And now, bam, it’s available. WordPress is great!
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This feature is a bomb. Thank you for show casing one fact, “you’re always getting better”.
Cheers!
Prosbee.
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I have been waiting to have a blog for months
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you should have enabled this long ago. this is nothing new – only new to WordPress.
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Thats brilliant, great work.
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Hi, I like the ideas, but they don’t work particularly well with my blog.
The breaks in the page is a super idea, but when you break into page 2… you make a comment… and it sends you back to the first page of the comments. This is confusing…
Also, when you click, ‘Older comments’ it takes you back to the first page of comments… not the previous page.
The reply system is a great idea… shame it doesn’t really work with a blog with lost of comments!
Oh… and finally, if the newest comments go at the top of the post, it would be nice if the comment box moved to the top of the page with it… scrolling to the bottom for your comment to go at the top is a bit weird…
Cheers
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nice.thank you very much……….
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Between this and the simplified LJ import, I am one very happy camper–*now* I feel fully moved in. Thanks, gerat job!
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I am so excited about this new comment threading. I had even gone as far as emailing other bloggers and asking how they had gotten it. I installed it immediately to my blog and loving every minute of it. Keep up the great changes!
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Sweet, this is a feature I will actually use!
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Great ! Think this like a forum in general ….
Btw, thanks for the advances …
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This is great. Thanks for the new settings to play around with!
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this is cool..em using it now..tnx!
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Great! great!
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Heather,
When can I be able to insert a chatbox/message board on my wordpress page? It would be good if wordpress’s latest feature is a chatbox. PLEEASEEEE…..
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Wonderful… Thanks a LOT. I’m not shure if I’ll use it, but it’s great to have the option.
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Is it possible to, for example, break the comments into multiple pages for one perticular post/page, or are these options only for your whole blog?
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These options are currently for the entire blog I’m afraid.
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Viva wordpress.com!
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hey, nicer!
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cool
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cool feature! more more more
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Thank you wordpress!!!!
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Thank you wordpress!!!! this is cool, but the time zone thing is kind of a problem.
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thank you!!
something i didn’t really know that i wanted,
but now that we have it, i love it. chanx.
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Bless you and yours 10,000 times 10,000
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Beautiful, insightful and intelligent.
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Yipee! This is really cool!
Thanks WP!
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Oh this is great!
Thanks.
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Awesome!
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@Jane Wells: Thanks for the suggestion to discuss plugins (live preview, in this case) on the wordpress.org forums. I’m still hoping live preview can eventually be available on wordpress.com.
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very nice!!!
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thank’s
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Wow this is very nice! Thank you!
PS: Hope that we could also prevent our comment replies on our own site from showing up in Recent Comments (as an option).
Again thanks!
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its Really nice feature
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thanks its cool, easy and simple..
thanks for WP
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i dont know whatto say… but one thing for sure i cant really understand how to manage my blog site.. hehe.. just a begginer…
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Welcome. Check out Support for tips on getting started.
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Aha! great stuff!
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This is fabulous! Can’t wait to start using it!!
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That’s awesome!!!!
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hi
just a simple question: this threading scheme (with levels) will be implemented on the comments administration area (on the dashboard) too?
my best
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The display of your Comments menu remains the same.
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Wonderful and thank you guys.
I’ve been testing the settings for 3 days now. And FUN is a very boring word for my blogger readers and I have done and learned. I think I know now what to do and what not to.
Only no-like so far is the coment pages. Because the counting starts at the oldest one. So if you chose to display oldest on top and you set 10 comments for page (example), when you reach 11 comments, the eleventh one will be alone in the FIRST visible page, while the other ten are hiding in the second….
My suggestion would be that the counting of the pages should be inverse to the user’s choice of order of display (newest or oldest first).
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When can we collapse and expand the comment text box? because too many comments make me confused who is replying to whom.
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That is a really cool feature, thanks!
aruna
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well done WP
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Yaaaay this saves commenting on the commenters blog lol. Although…. they might not know you’ve replied… If they haven’t chosen to be alerted of replies lol
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Spiffy!!!
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friendfeed comment? 😦
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Great, thanx!
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this is a-s-o-m-e asmome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOHO :):):):):):D
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All I can say is WOW! Nice 2 be here!
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this is kalivaraprasad attended IUCEE-2008 on VLSI course. it was very useful to me. i am using the tips i got from that course.such as make the subject lively, testing them at the end of the hour .the results were fruitful.
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Thanks a lot!!!
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What I would really love is having the option for only me (the moderator) to post nested comments. So I will set the allowed layers to “1”, and that way I could reply to a comment, and have the discussion continue below, but with my response showing where it should.
But this is great, thank you.
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Also, it’d be nicer to have a page-count and direct links at the bottom of the post for multiple pages of comments, so people could jump directly to a specific page, and know how many there are.
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Also please consider letting us pay you money in order to use javascript and custom themes! It’s a shame that most of us have to migrate off wordpress.com’s servers because we want more customization — we’d rather pay you than someone else!
Yes, Yes, and YES!! The helpful people behind wordpress are truly amazing. For some reason, I had thought that developers of wordpress were some rich conglomerate theocracy. Instead I read that all of wordpress — ALL OF IT — is developed, maintained, and supported by volunteers?
Yeah, I would seriously prefer to give you folks my money. Pleeeeeeeeze take my money! lol
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Cool… thanks…
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sounds like a winner 🙂
many thanks.
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