=== Paged Comment Editing ===
Tags: comment, administration, spam
Contributors: coldforged

Announcing the Paged Comment Editing plugin. No, doesn’t sound as fancy as the 
Image Headline plugin or even the Spell Checker plugin and your readers will 
reap no benefit, but it does have some merit for you, the WordPress author. This 
plugin overhauls the stock comment editing interface to provide the following 
capabilities: 

* Finally page through all of your comments in the comment administration 
interface. The stock interface is limited to displaying the 20 most-recent 
comments. If you’re anything like me, you’ll burn through 20 in 2 days tops. 
You’ll now be free to read and edit every comment on your installation with 
ease. This plugin supports paging through your comments, including arbitrary 
numbers of posts per page as well as paging of comment searching. 
* See the comments that can’t be seen. WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn added some 
reasonably powerful if simplistic comment spam combating measures based on 
blacklists. This is wonderful, but if a comment happens to be tagged as spam by 
WordPress you will never see it again unless you do it external to WordPress via 
phpMyAdmin or something like it. Therefore, you have no way of knowing if a 
comment was inappropriately marked as spam. This plugin makes those invisible 
comments visible again... but only when you want them. With appropriate 
blacklist in place, 99% of the things marked as spam will be spam and you 
certainly don’t want to sift through that all day. But it’s nice to be able to 
rescue that 1% that otherwise would have disappeared into the ether. 

== Installation == 

Note that this plugin requires WordPress version 1.5 Strayhorn or any of the 
1.5.1 nightlies. Do not install this plugin on a 1.3 beta or earlier release. 
Installing the plugin couldn’t be easier. Choose from the following methods:

* EASIEST —> One-Click Install via the WordPress Plugin Manager – Go to your 
WPPM plugins page, refresh the view, and look under the ‘Admin Tools’ section 
for the “Paged Comment Editing” plugin. Click on the name and click on 
“One-Click Install”. You’re done. 
* Manual install – Simply download the 
edit-comments-full.php file and copy to your 'wp-content/plugins' directory, 
then activate the plugin. 
 
== Usage ==

Using the plugin is even easier. There’s nothing special to do, just visit your 
standard ‘Manage’—> ‘Comments’ page in the WordPress administration interface. 
It should look a bit different but it works pretty much the same as you’re used 
to. If you have many comments on your blog, you’ll see an area with Pages: 
followed by links of page numbers. Click on a page number link to immediately 
jump to that page of comments. Want to see more or less comments per page? 
Change the number of comments to display on each page by typing a number into 
the ‘Show:’ input box and either click on the ‘Show:’ button or press return 
after entering the number. Want to see if you have any comment spam? Click on 
the “Include Spam” link and any comments marked as spam will be instantly 
recognizable. Don’t see any spam on that page? Click on the “Only Spam” link and 
see all of the spam you’ve gathered. All of these features work with searching 
as well. Want to find any spam comments about Viagra? Enter Viagra in the search 
box while you have spam included. 

== Removal ==

Removal is rather straightforward as well. You can either deactivate the plugin 
or remove the plugin file entirely. No core WordPress files are touched, ever.