My WordPress theme BinaryBlue has a feature to show the comments in a paged way, so the serverload would be less than when displaying all comments everytime. Looking at my Google sitemap stats, I saw that most URLs (if not all) that resulted in a 404 contained “comment-page-1”.
So I viewed the weblog, opened an entry with comments and looked at all the links on that page. The URLs pointing to the individual comments all have something like “comment-page-1” in them. But clicking on them will give you a 404! So I went back to the administration panel and went into the BinaryBlue options, since that’s the theme I’m using (WordPress does not have paged-comments by default, you have to install a plugin for that). I disabled the AJAX-paged-comments, and voila….it works. No more dead-links.
just for your interest – that kind of dead links usually points to some error in the permalink structure of the site. as you can see on my own site, both the paged comments and the permalinks (which are only used in case of a client browser with disabled javascript!) do work perfectly.
Thanks for the info. I checked that, and it is on:
Custom: /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
When I change it now to any of the defaults, comments don’t work at all.