Margje - I updated the code this morning to work with WP 4.4. I can't attest to its efficiency but it does work as expected again.
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<?php<br />
/*<br />
Plugin Name: Fix Reversed Comments Pagination<br />
Plugin URI: http://winkpress.com/articles/fix-reversed-comments-pagination/<br />
Description: Fixes a problem with reversed comments pagination. See <a href="http://winkpress.com/articles/fix-reversed-comments-pagination/">this</a> for more details.<br />
Author: WinkPress<br />
Version: 1.0<br />
Author URI: http://winkpress.com/<br />
*/<br />
function wink_good_discussion_settings()<br />
{<br />
// If comments are not paginated<br />
if (!get_option('page_comments'))<br />
return false;</p>
<p> // If comments are not newer to oldest<br />
//if (get_option('comment_order') != 'desc')<br />
// return false;</p>
<p> // If last page not displayed first<br />
if (get_option('default_comments_page') != 'newest')<br />
return false;</p>
<p> // Otherwise,<br />
return true;<br />
}</p>
<p>if (wink_good_discussion_settings()):</p>
<p>add_action('comment_form', 'wink_comment_redirect');<br />
add_filter('comment_post_redirect', 'wink_comment_redirect', 99, 2);</p>
<p>function wink_comment_redirect($location = '', $comment = null)<br />
{<br />
if (!$comment)<br />
{<br />
$cpage = get_query_var('cpage');<br />
$link = get_comments_pagenum_link( $cpage );<br />
$link = str_replace('#comments', '', $link);<br />
echo "<input type='hidden' value='$link' name='redirect_to' />";<br />
}<br />
else<br />
{<br />
if ($comment->comment_parent == 0)<br />
{<br />
$location = get_permalink($comment->comment_post_ID);<br />
$location .= '#comment-' . $comment->comment_ID;<br />
}</p>
<p> return $location;<br />
}<br />
}</p>
<p>class Walker_Comment_Wink extends Walker_Comment<br />
{<br />
/*<br />
This is copied from class-wp-walker.php and modified slightly.<br />
Thanks to jpowermacg5 from irc://irc.freenode.net/php for helping<br />
me figure this out!<br />
*/<br />
function paged_walk( $elements, $max_depth, $page_num, $per_page ) {</p>
<p> global $id;<br />
global $cpage; </p>
<p> /* sanity check */<br />
if ( empty($elements) || $max_depth < -1 )<br />
return '';</p>
<p> $per_page = get_option('comments_per_page');</p>
<p> $args = array_slice( func_get_args(), 4 );<br />
$output = '';</p>
<p> $id_field = $this->db_fields['id'];<br />
$parent_field = $this->db_fields['parent'];</p>
<p> $count = -1;<br />
if ( -1 == $max_depth )<br />
$total_top = dm_comment_count( $count ); //count( $elements );<br />
if ( $page_num < 1 || $per_page < 0 ) {<br />
// No paging<br />
$paging = false;<br />
$start = 0;<br />
if ( -1 == $max_depth )<br />
$end = $total_top;<br />
$this->max_pages = 1;<br />
} else {<br />
$paging = true;<br />
$start = ( (int)$page_num - 1 ) * (int)$per_page;<br />
$end = $start + $per_page;<br />
if ( -1 == $max_depth )<br />
$this->max_pages = ceil($total_top / $per_page);<br />
}</p>
<p> // flat display<br />
if ( -1 == $max_depth ) {</p>
<p> //$page_num = 1 + ceil($total_top / $per_page);</p>
<p> if( $cpage=='' || empty($cpage)) $page_num = get_comment_pages_count();<br />
else $page_num = $cpage;</p>
<p> if ( !empty($args[0]['reverse_top_level']) ) {<br />
$top_level_elements = array_reverse( $top_level_elements );</p>
<p> $start = ($page_num - 1) * $per_page;<br />
$end = $start + $per_page;<br />
} else {<br />
$start = ((($page_num - 1) * $per_page) - $per_page) + ($total_top % $per_page); //$total_top - ($page_num) * $per_page; //($total_top - $per_page);// + ($total_top % $per_page); //$total_top - ($page_num) * $per_page;<br />
$end = $start + $per_page;<br />
}</p>
<p> $commargs = array(<br />
'status' => 'approve',<br />
'number' => ($start >= 0 ? $per_page : ($per_page + $start)),<br />
'post_id' => $id,<br />
'offset' => ($start >= 0 ? $start : 0),<br />
'type' => 'comment',<br />
'order' => 'ASC'<br />
);</p>
<p> $elements = get_comments($commargs);</p>
<p> /*echo "<br />
<pre>";
print_r($commargs);
echo "</pre>
";</p>
<p> echo "page_num: " . $page_num . "<br />";<br />
echo "total_top: " . $total_top . "<br />";<br />
echo "per_page: " . $per_page . "<br />";<br />
echo "per_page: " . $total_top % $per_page . "<br />";</p>
<p> echo "Start: $start<br />";<br />
echo "End: $end<br />";*/</p>
<p> $empty_array = array();<br />
foreach ( $elements as $e ) {<br />
$count++;</p>
<p> $this->display_element( $e, $empty_array, 1, 0, $args, $output );<br />
}<br />
return $output;<br />
}</p>
<p> /*<br />
* separate elements into two buckets: top level and children elements<br />
* children_elements is two dimensional array, eg.<br />
* children_elements[10][] contains all sub-elements whose parent is 10.<br />
*/<br />
$top_level_elements = array();<br />
$children_elements = array();<br />
foreach ( $elements as $e) {<br />
if ( 0 == $e->$parent_field )<br />
$top_level_elements[] = $e;<br />
else<br />
$children_elements[ $e->$parent_field ][] = $e;<br />
}</p>
<p> $total_top = count( $top_level_elements );<br />
if ( $paging )<br />
$this->max_pages = ceil($total_top / $per_page);<br />
else<br />
$end = $total_top;</p>
<p> if ( !empty($args[0]['reverse_top_level']) ) {<br />
$top_level_elements = array_reverse( $top_level_elements );</p>
<p> $page_num = 1 + ceil($total_top / $per_page) - $page_num;</p>
<p> $start = ($page_num - 1) * $per_page;<br />
$end = $start + $per_page;<br />
}</p>
<p> if ( !empty($args[0]['reverse_children']) ) {<br />
foreach ( $children_elements as $parent => $children )<br />
$children_elements[$parent] = array_reverse( $children );<br />
}</p>
<p> foreach ( $top_level_elements as $e ) {<br />
$count++;</p>
<p> //for the last page, need to unset earlier children in order to keep track of orphans<br />
if ( $end >= $total_top && $count < $start )<br />
$this->unset_children( $e, $children_elements );</p>
<p> if ( $count < $start )<br />
continue;</p>
<p> if ( $count >= $end )<br />
break;</p>
<p> $this->display_element( $e, $children_elements, $max_depth, 0, $args, $output );<br />
}</p>
<p> if ( $end >= $total_top && count( $children_elements ) > 0 ) {<br />
$empty_array = array();<br />
foreach ( $children_elements as $orphans )<br />
foreach( $orphans as $op )<br />
$this->display_element( $op, $empty_array, 1, 0, $args, $output );<br />
}</p>
<p> return $output;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
endif;</p>
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