Lucia — what I meant was, is there an easy way to get to an earlier page of the “Recent Comments” sidebar (at top right)?

Steve — is this something easy in WordPress?

TIA, PT

On the recent comments, SteveM doesn’t list recent posts, so that makes them difficult to find if others haven’t commented.
@Pochas– I don’t think the “rel=Nofollow” is required on preview.

WordPress shoves in the nofollows automatically. Steve keeps them off author links. and comment thread links.

Cool, it doesn’t bother me much because I know it works but it’s disconcerting the first time.

Gee, I hope this works, as the disappearing #’s sure are a pain, especially for one (like me) who generally reads these things later, after the Reaper has been thru…

Phil, Lucia, whoever– is there an easy way to get a listing of earlier “Recent Comments” (the RH sidebar)? I’m constantly losing track of recent posts, with the volume of new posts so large now…

BTW, Lucia, you should change the link under your name here — it leads to a blank page & worthless (to me) redirect.

TIA & Cheers — Pete Tillman

You need to include rel = “nofollow” in the tag so that following text will show up in preview. The tag above looks like this with [ substituted for "less that" and ] substituted for “greater than.”

[a href="http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2524#comment-187963" rel="nofollow"]Phil #222[/a]

<?php comment_ID() ?> This will print the actual comment number. (You’ll see where the comment_ID() bit appears in the permalink. Just put this near there.

This will screw up all the old comment references in previous threads, but I’m not sure that matters any more.

OK Steve here’s how it works, click on the number of the post you want to refer to, copy the url that shows up, click on the quicktag called link which will include the url between braces, then give it a name (I chose the apparent number), then close by clicking on the quicktag again (now should be /link).
Now the number should show as a link to the original post and never change, note once you hit the quicktag nothing you type thereafter will show in ‘preview’.

Steve: I know that. That wasn’t the question.

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