Posted by José Lopes.

This plugin enables the setting of a maximum number of comments allowed to display in each post. In addition, it provides a link to expand the comments showing all the remaining ones.

The problem of posts with many comments was placed to the plugin Hide or Show Comments comments, where it was asked the possibility of showing only some comments with a link to show the remaining list, like the plugin Hide or Show Comments feature.

Though this funcionality may be implemented by changing and adding code to the PHP file comments.php, I find that a new plugin would help more.

Download

You can download one of the files that serves you better:

• maximum-number-of-comments.zip
• maximum-number-of-comments.tar.gz

You may also find this Plugin in the Wordpress repository at Maximum Number of Comments.

Installation

• Decompress the files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
• Confirm that the plugin content is on the directory maximum-number-of-comments.
• Activate the plugin through the administrative pannel in WordPress.
• Edit the comments.php file of your site Theme.
• Delete the comment block starting and ending with:

  <?php if ($comments) : ?>
  	...
  	...
  	<?php endif; ?>

• Write in its place:

  <?php  MaximumComments(2, $comments, $oddcomment) ?>

  where:
  • The number 2 represents the maximum number of comments to be shown (it can be whatever you want)
  • The constant $comments is defined on the system so do not change it.
  • The constant $oddcomment if it doesn't appears on the file comments.php just write in its place 'alt', else leave it like that.

Final note

This plugin can be also used, with no problem, combined with the plugin Hide or Show Comments.