Hide The Comment Pagination

Michael — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:25:45 +0000

Ever since version 2.7 WordPress offers the option to adjust the number of comments on each page. From SEO's perspective, this is not very smart, as there were many articles and discussions about this topic in the past. If you turn off the comment pagination, the empty HTML fragment is still in the source code of the page.

Unfortunately, the classes that respond with CSS are the same as those from the normal page and post pagination.
If you have a theme in which the outer container of pagination has a frame or a background color, then you can see the empty container. Here are 2 screenshots with and without activated comment pagination to illustrate what I mean:

Another annoyance would be if .pagination has a margin-bottom, which would also have a negative effect on the layout. What can you do about it?

WordPress stores the setting of the comment pagination in the database table options under page_comments. Value 1 means on, value 0 means off. By doing so you can hide the pagination in comments.php if it is not turned on:

 if ((int) get_option('page_comments') === 1): ?>
	
		 previous_comments_link() ?>
		 next_comments_link() ?>
	
 endif; ?>

The query checks whether the comment pagination is set to (1) and displays the navigation. If it is set to (0) it will not display the navigation. On the other hand, if it is turned off, WordPress doesn't need to execute the two functions previous_comments_link() and next_comments_link().

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Correct Pagination with get_posts

Michael — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:36:29 +0000

If you like to show your posts a little bit different on your homepage or category page. For example having a different amount of posts showing on these pages, as it is set in your admin, you will get a problem with the pagination function. Because WordPress and several paging Plugins use $wp_query->max_num_pages.

max_num_pages is the result of available posts divided by the set number of posts per page. For example we set 10 posts per page, but we have on our starting page 14 posts, it will mess up the pagination.

My solution works with the WordPress pagination and looks like this:

//detect the set number of posts per page
$ppp = get_option('posts_per_page');
 
// first page 14 posts
if (!is_paged()) {
    $posts = get_posts('numberposts=14');
// second page with offset
} elseif($paged == 2) {
    $posts = get_posts('offset=14');
// all other pages with settings from backend
} else {
    $offset = $ppp*($paged-2)+14;
    $posts = get_posts('offset='.$offset);
}
 
if($posts) :
    foreach ($posts as $post) :
        //your code 
    endforeach;
endif;

This might be not the most intelligent solution, but it works. If anybody has a better idea, please let us know in the comments.

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