I’ve been informed a few days ago that the Paged Comments feature in BB generally works wonderful but has one drawback - the permalinks for the comments don’t point to the appropriate comment page. Neither do the comments links on the dashboard (admin panel) nor the list that is generated through the popular Brian’s Latest Comments plugin.

So I sat down this evening, once I was back home from the office, to analyzie the possibility to fix these drawbacks, and I was, generally speaking, pretty successful ;). The next upcoming release of my Binary Blue theme suite will contain the fix for the theme itself, and I succeeded to add full support for appropriate Paged comments permalinks to BLC as well.

If you want to fix your current 1.3.0 or 1.4.0 release of Binary Blue just edit your paged-comments-AJAX.php file and find the line that contains

<?php echo bb_pc_url($pager, 'comment-'.get_comment_ID()); ?>

It should be line 36 in the file if you didn’t manipulate anything by yourself before. Now replace that function call with the following one:

<?php echo bb_pc_url($pager, 'comment-'.get_comment_ID(), $pager->get_current_page()); ?>

Reupload that file to your webserver, and the permalinks are corrected automatically.

If you want to enhance the usability of Brian’s Latest Comments, just download this zipfile and overwrite the original brianslatestcomments.php file of the plugin with the contents of the zip. Be aware that Paged Comments will only work if Binary Blue is a) installed, b) activated as your current WordPress theme and c) AJAX Paged Comments have been enabled in the theme’s options page.