Here’s a problem I know some people would like to have to handle, because having too many comments on a post also usually means your blog is popular. It’s nice to have a popular blog with popular articles and people commenting a lot, but trust me it can become a huge problem.
I recently had to face that situation:
It’s a huge load of comments to handle and while it’s fun to know people like what you write, it’s a pain for first time visitors. First time visitors comming from Google have to wait for the page to load and it’s a pain. Not only the visitors have to wait, but with a 1Mb page it hurts the bandwith a lot!
How to handle it?
The solution is the Wordpress paged comments plugin. This little plugin allows you to have paged comments on your blog instead of having a single page with hundreds of comments. You can decide how many comments you want per page, how to order the comments, etc. There’s even a CSS sheet included with the plugin that you can modify to fit your template. I decided to display only 25 comments per page and the article went from 1Mb to 80kb. Quite an interesting improvement for the bandwidth and also for the poor users!
So there you go, now you can handle the popularity of your blog. I hope you will face that problem!
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Dealing with too many comments
Posted by: Ben Tremblay | Comments (16)Here’s a problem I know some people would like to have to handle, because having too many comments on a post also usually means your blog is popular. It’s nice to have a popular blog with popular articles and people commenting a lot, but trust me it can become a huge problem.
I recently had to face that situation:
It’s a huge load of comments to handle and while it’s fun to know people like what you write, it’s a pain for first time visitors. First time visitors comming from Google have to wait for the page to load and it’s a pain. Not only the visitors have to wait, but with a 1Mb page it hurts the bandwith a lot!
How to handle it?
The solution is the Wordpress paged comments plugin. This little plugin allows you to have paged comments on your blog instead of having a single page with hundreds of comments. You can decide how many comments you want per page, how to order the comments, etc. There’s even a CSS sheet included with the plugin that you can modify to fit your template. I decided to display only 25 comments per page and the article went from 1Mb to 80kb. Quite an interesting improvement for the bandwidth and also for the poor users!
So there you go, now you can handle the popularity of your blog. I hope you will face that problem!