Those regularly commenting on this blog may have noticed that I’ve added the Paged Comments plugin recently.
I don’t really liked flipping thru pages of comments while reading but some older posts here have had hundreds (a few have over 1,000) of comments which taking forever to load on a single page view.
This resulted to two problems — page time outs/DB connection errors and the SE bots refused to come back and crawl the pages. I’ve tried many times to either tweak Apache and mySQL configs, prune the comments, put them in a static/archived page or ignore the problem altogether. For many, it’s “happy problem” to have tons of comments, but it has these unfortunate drawbacks.
For the meantime, the paged comments plugin has solved the more important DB connection error issue which will allow new visitors to those pages to add comments again.
Comments aid you in tracking your reader’s thoughts over what you have written. For a blog as popular as yours, the comment page will also serve as a driving reason for some less known bloggers to visit your blog for them to be noticed. Just keep spams out and enjoy blogging!
I agree with that one, it increases your traffic seperately. It might be double.
abe, need your help in installing this on
http://www.guitartutee.com ‘s
Leave Your Request page. The comments there are nearing a thousand and it takes nearly a decade to load. I’ve already researched about this months ago, found a previous plugin too complicated, and eventually gave up on the installation.
I clicked on the link above but the page is not loading. Thanks!
-R
Twitter: Mindanao_Bob
says:
Thanks for posting this, Abe. I was just thinking that I need a plugin like this a few days ago, because I have several blogs that “suffer” from these huge numbers of comments too. I’ll try this plugin right away.
Thanks for posting this.
But where did you get those Page something instead of the Previous Posts?
I was looking all over for it for it but could not find.
Tabang Yuga!
Twitter: acejulian23
says:
thanks for the post..
@YUGA
have you tried Peel Away Ads…?
see my site: http://www.rnhalawi.com and look at the upper right corner of my site.. cheers!
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@ Dark Knight – working on it
@ Jeffrey – it’s WP PageNavi.
@ RNHalawi – the peel-aways are nice. seen them for years now on news sites. How’s the CTR there?
I wanna show you something,