Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering Plugin for WordPress Updated to Version 1.2

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By Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor | 31 March 2009

This update brings higher performance, several minor enhancements, and a revamped administrative interface to the popular plugin for numbering comments under WordPress 2.7.

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This latest update to the comment numbering plugin builds on an underlying code framework which I’ve been using in-house for awhile now, and which features in some plugins which aren’t quite ready for public release yet. That new framework enables the plugin to run more efficiently during ordinary page views and makes it much quicker and easier to deliver options pages in the administrative interface.

The core comment numbering code hasn’t changed significantly, however, so you should experience all the same benefits as the original versions: accurate hierarchical numbering regardless of threading levels, and careful workarounds to deal with bugs in WordPress which currently cause problems in the way it orders comments under certain circumstances.

For more background on the plugin, please see the original release plugin page here: “Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering Plugin for WordPress”.

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About the Author: With an educational background in philosophy and mathematics, as well as in counselling, Dr Mulhauser enjoys publishing CounsellingResource.com, providing online counselling and therapy services, and spending time with his family.

This article was last reviewed by Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor on Tuesday, 31st March 2009.

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27 Responses (Including 11 Discussion Threads) to “WordPress Threaded Comment Numbering Plugin Updated”

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    Mojtaba Cazi

    12th August 2009

    11

    Great idea, but I can’t use it :(
    I place “echo gtcn_comment_numbering($comment->comment_ID, $args);” in my comment call function (built-in theme function), but

    echo gtcn_comment_numbering($comment->comment_ID, $args)

    appears on each comments on my blog instead of numbers…
    how can I fix it?


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      Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

      12th August 2009

      11.1

      Howdy,

      Without more details it’s hard to give a very detailed answer, but what appears to be happening is that you’re placing the code within an area that is being interpreted as plain XHTML rather than PHP code. If that is the case, you can just wrap the call to gtcn_comment_numbering in <?php and ?> to ensure it gets treated as php.

      I’m afraid I’m not able to offer detailed guidance on theme editing, but I hope that might help.

      All the best,
      Greg


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      Mojtaba Cazi

      13th August 2009

      11.2

      Thank you!
      I think you have to add into your plugin instructions!


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    åse

    14th August 2009

    12

    Hi!

    I just activated your plugin but the settings page is empty??
    I’ve been looking for a plugin like this so this is just soooooo annoying ;)

    Could you help out?

    Kindest Regards from Sweden


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    Tayler

    21st September 2009

    13

    its work thread comment number. its great plugin. GOOD JOB! i have question, how to stay thread comment number from delete? for Example
    1
    2 <— delete comments(i want stay thread number)
    3
    now it will not show number 2
    1
    3
    I hope understand. Thank you


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      Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

      21st September 2009

      13.1

      Hi Tayler,

      Keeping a running tally of deleted comments isn’t something that WordPress can do out of the box, I’m afraid. Once they’re gone, they’re gone, so we have no way to count them up.

      All the best,
      Greg


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    Tayler

    21st September 2009

    14

    check here example images


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      Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

      21st September 2009

      14.1

      Hi Tayler,

      I’m sorry I was not clearer the first time: this is not possible. WordPress does not keep track of deleted comments — they are deleted — and therefore there is no way to count them.

      If you wanted to build a completely different plugin which attempts to number comments as they come in by storing extra data in a database table, you could do that. This plugin does not do that, and it will not ever do that.

      Sorry!

      All the best,
      Greg


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