There is not really any fix for this, as the #comment-X part is not sent to the server, so there is no way for WordPress to see it and redirect the link to the correct page.
However:
And even for new links created it is not guaranteed that those links will remain correct, because some visitors might add some comments on old pages, so that the numbering of commentpages might change.
This can only happen if you display comments in “newest first” order. If it is oldest first, then new comments will get made on later pages, and thus the comment locations will not change in the future.
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Tooni
(@tooni)
There is not really any fix for this
Thank you for your answer, although it is really disappointing.
Of course I also don’t have a solution for this problem. But I really would like to use the comment pagination, because it has several advantages (also in terms of SEO and performance). However, when I activate it, it would create thousands of broken links, which I cannot accept.
So finally it seems that I have to accept, that the possibility of comment pagination is not usable (in my case). Very sad… 🙁
(@tooni)
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Some of my posts have a large number of comments and so I tried to use the standard wordpress functionality of paginating the comments. This works fine, but there is one problem:
After I activated paginated comments, I noticed that their links have changed:
When before the activation a comment had a link like:
my-page/my-post/#comment-123it now changed to:
my-page/my-post/comment-page-2/#comment-123The problem is: Because of this, all old existing links to comments don’t work anymore. 🙁
And even for new links created it is not guaranteed that those links will remain correct, because some visitors might add some comments on old pages, so that the numbering of commentpages might change.
I think, I’m not the only one facing this problem and so I hope there is already a solution how to handle this.
Thank you, Tooni