This plugin generates a separate comments page for each post at /comments/, using the WordPress rewrite endpoints API.
WordPress has some legacy support for pop-up comments, but the feature is largely abandoned and poorly supported. Also, it generates the comments pages at yoursite.com/?comments_popup=XXXX, which is both bad for SEO and will often appear in analytics as one page.
However, displaying a post's comments separately from the main content can be useful in many circumstances. Although less common nowadays, traditionally many blogs chose to feature comments in a pop-up window or lightbox. It can also be desirable for editorial or legal reasons, for caching purposes, or perhaps if you are publishing individually art-directed posts. You may also find this code handy if you're using WordPress for a non-blog website.
Install the plugin using the Plugins admin panel, or upload the files to your wp-content/plugins directory.
- You will need to customise the generated page by copying the included comments-single.php template into your theme; if you're using this as a pop-up you will want to remove the get_header() and get_footer() calls.
- WordPress doesn't provide a filter hook for comments_link(), so you'll need to manually replace links to your comments to point to the new page at /comments/
- Implement comment page pagination
- Add configuration options
Version: 1.0
Written by Felix Renicks for Storm Consultancy, a web design and development agency based in Bath, UK. If you're looking for WordPress developers in Bath, then get in touch!
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