The first thing to say would be, you can’t say you haven’t been warned – see codex page paginate_comments_links(), section »Defaults«:
These arguments are mostly to make the call of
paginate_links()work, so be careful if you change them.
It’s true, paginate_comments_links() is pretty much just a already customized version for comments of paginate_links(), with those defaults to make this work:
- ‘base’ => add_query_arg( ‘cpage’, ‘%#%’ ),
- ‘format’ => ,
- ‘total’ => $max_page,
- ‘current’ => $page,
- ‘echo’ => true,
- ‘add_fragment’ => ‘#comments’
What you’re doing is overriding the necessary – hence the warning – defaults of paginate_comment_links() with the defaults of paginate_links(), which leads to the comment links not working anymore. If I’m seeing it correctly the only parameter you want to change is type, so this is the only one you have to pass.
Like this:
$args = array(
'type' => 'list'
);
paginate_comments_links( $args );
Or:
paginate_comments_links( array( 'type' => 'list' ) );