Title: Why doesn’t wordpress consider nested comments when Paginating!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Why doesn’t wordpress consider nested comments when Paginating!

 *  [benjamin_sp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benjamin_sp/)
 * (@benjamin_sp)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-doesnt-wordpress-consider-nested-comments-when-paginating/)
 * In discussion settings I set the number to “Break comments into pages with” at
   5. However wordpress doesn’t take nested comments into consideration during pagination.
   So if I have 5 regular comments on a page the next comment will be posted on 
   the next page. However, if I have 100 nested comments on a page they will all
   stay on the same page.
 * This person also had the same problem but never received a reply:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/267768?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/267768?replies=1)
 * Does anyone know how to make WordPress take nested comments into account when
   paginating?

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 *  [jceresini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jceresini/)
 * (@jceresini)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-doesnt-wordpress-consider-nested-comments-when-paginating/#post-1214011)
 * This is probably not taken into consideration for read-ability purposes. If a
   comment has several sub comments, paginating on the sub comments could result
   in you ending up on a page of all subcomments without any context as to what 
   they are commenting on. I know that doesn’t really help, but just a thought from
   a usability perspective.
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 *  [Drew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drook/)
 * (@drook)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-doesnt-wordpress-consider-nested-comments-when-paginating/#post-1214383)
 * There seems to have been an update to this, but it introduced a new bug.
 * I have it set to break at 50 comments. If I have 51 first-level comments, when
   I go to the post page I see the 51st comment and a link for the previous comments.
   But if I have 49 first-level comments and 2 second-level comments, I get no visible
   comments and no link to previous comments.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-doesnt-wordpress-consider-nested-comments-when-paginating/#post-1214383)
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