Separating Trackbacks from Comments
September 18th 2007
Trackbacks are the messages displayed in the comments list whenever another blog links back to one of your posts. Many blogs disable trackbacks, but not all.
If you use trackbacks on your blog, it is best if they are not mixed with the comments. The comments are a conversation between between real people. Having machine-generated links in the middle of that will only serve to disrupt the conversations.
The method described here will lift out all of the trackbacks, and then display them as a numbered list after the list of comments is finished. Once you have this done, customizing the trackbacks to appear however you want them to is simple.
And thanks to Gary, the Trackbacks header will only appear if the post has a trackback to show.
NB - This method will only work for WordPress users. Sorry guys!
How To Separate the Trackbacks
Open comments.php, and search for the following line:
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
After it, paste the following:
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type == 'comment') { ?>
Now look for:
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
And before it, paste:
<?php } else { $trackback = true; } /* End of is_comment statement */ ?>
That means that your list of comments will continue to display as normal, but without any trackbacks or pingbacks. Now we will add a second comments loop for the trackbacks.
Look for the following line:
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
And before it, paste this: (The "Trackbacks" title line can be deleted if you don't want a heading to be shown)
<?php if ($trackback == true) { ?>
<h3>Trackbacks</h3>
<ol>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type != 'comment') { ?>
<li><?php comment_author_link() ?></li>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ol>
<?php } ?>
Of course, this is all only helpful if you actually use trackbacks, and there are some good reasons for either side of that debate. Do you use trackbacks on your blog? Why?
September 18th at 11:56 am GMT
Comment #1
Strange, I get notified about trackbacks and I do see them on my WPadmin Comments section but it doesn't appear on my posts' comments section even without any modifications.
Did I miss out something?
September 18th at 12:03 pm GMT
Comment #2
Your theme may already be set up to block them out.
If they appear in your comments area, it does mean that they're enabled and have been saved as post comments.
September 18th at 12:52 pm GMT
Comment #3
I've been meaning to do this for a while now, but I haven't decided whether I should put trackbacks above or below comments.
September 18th at 1:02 pm GMT
Comment #4
It depends on the blog Matt, but on Webmaster Source you follow each post with a list of related posts. You wouldn't want to have that followed immediately by another list of links.
September 18th at 1:19 pm GMT
Comment #5
I used to kill trackbacks due to them being 99% spam, however I switched them back on as I think it's good to have a link to other posts mentioning yours. Trouble is I've broken it all now and they don't seem to appear!
Separating them is a good idea. I've seen it in the past and it does make things flow better
September 18th at 2:01 pm GMT
Comment #6
Hah. I was JUST wondering how to do this after stumbling across another blog that did so.
Thanks for the practical advice. You've once again confirmed that I need to stay subscribed to your feed.
September 18th at 2:43 pm GMT
Comment #7
Sarah - Morally I do think it's nice. I don't use them here though because they aren't necessarily links that I recommend. If there is going to be a list of links, it should be a hank-picked list that I have chosen specifically for my readers. (I suppose that's more of a problem for smaller blogs, like this one. Larger blogs probably get a lot nicer trackbacks! xD )
Liberty - Yes! You must always stay subscribed. For ever and ever and ever! :p
September 18th at 5:09 pm GMT
Comment #8
Nice little guide :), since I don't get many trackbacks I don't think it'd really matter in which way I display them to begin with though :P. By far the most avid trackbackers for my blog are spammers, hehe. Those are nicely being blocked from public of course.
But I'll keep this in mind for if it ever would occur that I would start getting a lot of them ;).
September 18th at 5:13 pm GMT
Comment #9
I hope that that will be the case someday Slevi. For 2 reasons.
September 18th at 10:46 pm GMT
Comment #10
WordPress is so messy with its PHP in the HTML. I wonder how long it will take for a new higher grade blogging software to knock them of their spot?
September 18th at 10:51 pm GMT
Comment #11
I like that aspect of it David. It gives you complete control over the design through only the templates files. Very rarely have I had to touch the actual WP's files. At the very least, it makes upgrading easy.
September 19th at 12:24 am GMT
Comment #12
I use a much more complicated way of doing this, but it allows me to count them separately and run totally different loops for them.
My comments.php is huge because of all this
September 19th at 12:43 am GMT
Comment #13
@David: Probably very long, the majority of the users simply couldn't care less about messy code. Living proof of that is mySpace, it has even the shittiest page source and I highly doubt their backend is much better but meanwhile it is one of the best visited sites in the web.
As inefficiently wordpress might be doing a couple of things currently, the amount of people actually caring about it is just too small to make a change.
September 19th at 5:07 pm GMT
Comment #14
Connor - You can do that with this code as well. I originally set it up on this blog, where we do count the comments, and it's already running two seperate loops.
Of course, the nice thing about coding is that there are always a few ways to achieve the same goal. ALl are equally valid.
September 20th at 12:46 am GMT
Comment #15
Yay it worked! Thank you!
I never managed to get the author coded different color one to work (for some reason my email address isn't recorded when I myself comment? hmm) but this one worked :). Thanks!
One small question: if I wanted it to say something innocuous like "Trackbacks:" before the list of trackbacks, where would I write that (and how) in the code to do that?
September 20th at 2:33 am GMT
Comment #16
I like seeing them separated on other blogs, and I've been thinking about doing it one mine. I just haven't made the time to do it, so thanks for the reminder.
September 20th at 3:22 am GMT
Comment #17
One thing I like about using the Sandbox theme as a basis for custom WordPress themes is that separation of comments and trackbacks/pingbacks is built into it.
I like to reward commenters and linkers, so I have removed "nofollow" from my blog and feature a recent trackbacks list on my home page (as well as recent comments). I definitely believe in showing trackbacks!
September 20th at 9:24 am GMT
Comment #18
Nice! I've seen this once or twice on blogs and thought it was kind of cute.
Perhaps I will do this on my blog, even though I get very few trackbacks!
Michael Martine with an E - I started making a theme based on Sandbox and found the code to be so bloated and messy that I didn't know where to start! How do you find working with it?
September 20th at 9:39 pm GMT
Comment #19
paidtwice - Glad it helped! Sorry to hear the author one didn't work so well. The code does work, but I may have been a little grey with some of the instructions. I'll just have to be more clear in future!
To add the "Trackbacks" heading, look for the last section that you pasted in, beginning with:
<ol>< ?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
Before that, paste the following:
<h3>Trackbacks</h3>
That will do it.
Steven - No problem.
Michael - First off, I love the name! Secondly, it's a nice thing to show trackbacks like that. I have nofollow removed here, but not the trackbacks. I'm a little worried about their impact on SEO, and that they mightn't always be overly relevant links.
kristarella - It's always an option! There's no need to do it, especially if you aren't showing trackbacks at the minute anyway, but if you are, I think it's a good way of doing it.
September 20th at 10:39 pm GMT
Comment #20
Thanks! That worked great!
No worries on the author color comment thing, I am not skilled at coding... anything.
I may have messed something up. I intend on trying again 
Future topic suggestion.... how you make your columns start lower and extend your header on that one part to put that quote in. That would rule (if I could figure it out that is lol).
September 20th at 11:18 pm GMT
Comment #21
Glad it worked!
Thanks for the idea, but it would be a little harder to explain. It's actually quite easy to do (For a coder that is), but because every theme is so different, it wouldn't be as easy as copying&pasting. You would need a basic understanding of CSS I'm afraid, to work out the specifics for your own theme.
(I do plan on writing some articles that would give you that basic understanding in the future, but not just yet!)
September 20th at 11:38 pm GMT
Comment #22
Arrggh. I just found out it appeared in one of my post.
This post of yours is going to be useful. 
September 20th at 11:43 pm GMT
Comment #23
Well, it will if it works!
*fingers crossed*
September 21st at 8:50 am GMT
Comment #24
I totally agree with you, it's always best to seperate trackbacks and human comments.
September 21st at 3:16 pm GMT
Comment #25
I'm going to try this.
Thanks.
September 21st at 4:58 pm GMT
Comment #26
Moses - Agreed. Combining them only leads to confusion and annoyance.
Laarni - Glad to hear it. Good luck! (Let me know if you have any problems.
)
September 22nd at 3:01 am GMT
Comment #27
Hi there: I started to implement this and then discovered that there is verbiage in my theme indicating that pings/trackbacks and comments are already separated. But the trackbacks are not appearing. How can I tell if they have been disabled and how do I allow them again? I am getting e-mail notifications of them and they are included in my total comment count, but they don't actually appear on my site.
Thanks.
September 22nd at 7:28 am GMT
Comment #28
You're using a modified Copyblogger - I found that code in my theme too (also Coppyblogger). I don't think that the function separating them is activated by default in CB - from Chris's comment about it. Are you sure that your trackbacks are not showing up as comments? Perhaps they can be excluded from the admin?
In light of the function not being active you could probably still use this code and leave that over code alone (I'm thinking of doing that).
September 22nd at 7:41 am GMT
Comment #29
Wow, great tip, I was just looking into how to do this. you'll definately be getting a trackback from me in this weekends Sunday Seven edition!
September 22nd at 8:05 am GMT
Comment #30
Kristarella: I love what you've done with the CB theme!
Unfortunately, this won't work for me because the language referenced is not in the comment.php file, so I don't know where to start to implement this work around.
I'm sure . . . my trackbacks and pings are definitely not showing up at all except in my dashboard.
Thanks.
September 22nd at 1:09 pm GMT
Comment #31
Thanks JHS, I appreciate the compliment
I think I found the code - look for:
<?php $count_pings = 1; foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>and
<?php $comment_number++; } /* end for each comment */ ?>They should be the places that you need to put code after and before respectively, according to Michael's instructions. I haven't tested it, so make sure you back up your comments.php incase it doesn't work.
The 'php else' code that you place the trackback code before is the same.
p.s. Sorry in advance if that code doesn't show up properly - I never know how WP processes these things!
September 22nd at 1:51 pm GMT
Comment #32
JHS - If they had been disabled, you wouldn't get any notification of them. Let me know if Kristarella's advice works for you. If it doesn't, I'll try out the copyblogger theme myself and see what needs to be done.
Kristarella - Thanks for helping out!
Suzanne - Thanks! Hope it works out for you.
September 22nd at 1:57 pm GMT
Comment #33
No worries
I'm trying out your code right now with the code that I just mentioned and it seems to be working - just needs a bit of styling. However, my trackbacks were showing up as comments, so I'm not sure what's happening there.
September 22nd at 2:14 pm GMT
Comment #34
Oops - unclear comments - I meant my trackbacks were showing up before, so I don't know if what I've done to my file will work for JHS.
Anyway, it's all working nicely. Thanks for the instructions!
September 22nd at 4:16 pm GMT
Comment #35
No problem. If they were showing up before then the code above should definitely work, if you've tweaked it for Copyblogger.
September 22nd at 4:45 pm GMT
Comment #36
I tried placing the code where Kristarella suggested.
You can see the result here:
http://www.jhsiess.com/hereslo.....-on-track/
You see 5 comments there.
But if you go to the homepage, you will see that under the post excerpt (it is the last post on the front page), the verbiage is "17 Comments."
I use the Better Comments Manager plugin and I have a total of 17 comments, pings and trackbacks there.
So they are coming in, but are not showing up.
Thanks for any assistance you can provide!
September 22nd at 4:49 pm GMT
Comment #37
Kristarella: Would you be willing to share your comments.php file with me? If you e-mail it to admin@jhsiess.com, I can compare your file with mine and perhaps figure out what's going on.
Thanks.
September 23rd at 2:10 am GMT
Comment #38
I see what you mean JHS, that's weird the 17/5 comments thing. There is a chance that a plugin is causing that Even though the plugin doesn't really have anything to do with trackbacks. How much do you actually use that plugin?
I can email you my comments file. No problem.
September 23rd at 5:26 am GMT
Comment #39
I use the Better Comments Manager too and it doesn't hide my trackbacks. But I run a different theme so it may not matter. lol
September 23rd at 9:42 pm GMT
Comment #40
Just wanted to say thanks again Kristarella, and paidtwice now. It's good of yous to help out.
September 24th at 7:47 am GMT
Comment #41
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
I've just implemented this on my blog and it worked perfectly. I appreciate you sharing this advice.
September 24th at 12:05 pm GMT
Comment #42
No problem Tay. Glad it worked for ya.
September 28th at 4:23 am GMT
Comment #43
I just got back from vacation and am now catching up on your articles. Thanks Michael! I've pasted the codes and they are working perfectly. I was wondering whether it is possible to put a custom message immediately above the Trackbacks? I tried that but this message also comes up in posts without trackbacks.
September 28th at 5:23 am GMT
Comment #44
Hey pablopabla,
I'm not great with php, but I think I have what you're looking for.
<ol class="trackbacks"><?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type != 'comment') { ?>
<h3>Trackbacks ↓</h3>
<li><?php comment_author_link() ?></li>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ol>
In the h3 tag I've got my Trackback title, which should only show up when there are trackbacks (because it's after the "if" thing. You could put whatever you want there.
September 28th at 10:41 am GMT
Comment #45
Thanks Kristarella.
However, I notice that the "Trackbacks" wording repeats itself for each and every Trackback on the posts. :O
September 28th at 11:37 am GMT
Comment #46
Bother! You are absolutely right. I actually have so few trackbacks that it was difficult to find a post with 2 on it! (I guess I'm hoping for more in the future :P)
In that case, I too would like an answer to the question!
September 28th at 5:38 pm GMT
Comment #47
Hey pablopabla! Nice to see you again.
I'm going to add that into the post now. Another commenter asked the same question. You can read my answer here in the meantime.
Kristarella - Incase you're interested: the problem with yours is just that the foreach(... line is the start of a loop. Everything between that an endforeach is repeated for every item (trackback) on the article.
September 30th at 4:24 pm GMT
Comment #48
That's a good idea!
But, do you have an example?
A screenshot of the results would be very helpful in deciding if I'm going to use that.
(I most likely will, but a screenshot will be helpful)
September 30th at 4:36 pm GMT
Comment #49
Yep, the articles on SkellieWag display trackbacks like this.
September 30th at 7:19 pm GMT
Comment #50
Thanks so much!
I am going to use that now!
September 30th at 7:23 pm GMT
Comment #51
No problem. Let me know if you have any problems.
October 1st at 7:20 am GMT
Comment #52
Thanks for the tip Michael. However, is it possible to further tweak it so that the customisation (the line between the ) does not appear at all when there are no trackbacks to a post? At the moment, the customisation appears in all posts.
October 19th at 3:48 pm GMT
Comment #53
Thanks for the great tip on trackbacks.
To have the trackbacks showing only if there are some is quite easy change to make...following your original instructions, instead of this:
Do this:
And instead of this:
TrackbacksDo this:
Trackbacks
October 19th at 5:35 pm GMT
Comment #54
Hey Gary - Thanks for trying to help out, but there's no code in your comment. Did something go wrong?
October 19th at 6:13 pm GMT
Comment #55
Hey Michael
Hmm, seems to have gone wrong. No matter, see http://www.osworld.biz/1004/se.....-comments/
Cheers, Gary
October 19th at 6:25 pm GMT
Comment #56
Looks good now, thanks.
November 21st at 5:00 am GMT
Comment #57
This is fantastic ... thanks so much for the tip! I've seen a lot of blogs doing this and always wondered how. I agree they interrupt the flow of conversation, but I've been told by people smarter than I am that trackbacks are helpful.
One question, though, since I don't know that much PHP ... how would I make the text Trackbacks and the ordered list underneath it only show up when there are more than zero trackbacks?
November 21st at 5:14 am GMT
Comment #58
Hey Forrest - this is a really great solution. I agree that trackbacks interrupt the comversation.
See Gary's comment for the solution to that issue. I'm using his code on my blog.
November 21st at 10:33 pm GMT
Comment #59
Hehe - You must be subscribed to this post Kristarella. Thanks for helping Forrest out.
November 27th at 2:50 am GMT
Comment #60
I guess I should have read all of the comments first...! Before I came back and saw that, I implemented more or less the same thing in javascript, but this is a cleaner solution overall. So for the second time thanks!
November 27th at 9:02 pm GMT
Comment #61
lol - I wonder if Kristarella will pop in to say "Welcome"
November 27th at 10:19 pm GMT
Comment #62
I usually only come back when someone has an issue that they're trying to solve
November 27th at 11:20 pm GMT
Comment #63
Fair enough. I'm just glad you do.
January 4th at 1:18 am GMT
Comment #64
Thanks for this tip, it's helped
One thing though. My site keeps on making trackbacks to itself whenever I link back to another article of mine. Can I stop it from doing this? I'm using WP 2.3.2
January 4th at 5:10 pm GMT
Comment #65
Nathan,
I've disabled trackbacks here, so I can't say anything for certain, but this plugin looks good. If you try it, let me know if it works please.
January 5th at 3:02 am GMT
Comment #66
Thanks for the link Martin, and yes the plugin does work, for all you people out there with the same problem.
January 5th at 12:50 pm GMT
Comment #67
Nathan, glad to hear it and thanks for letting us know (I've bookmarked it now
)
January 5th at 8:13 pm GMT
Comment #68
WordPress automatically sends itself trackbacks, and auto-publishes them. I go back and delete them manually; occasionally I'll actually want to let one remain.If a reder discovers my blog through an old post, [self] trackbacks are a good way to connect that post to other specific ones on the same subject, or that refer to it in a meaningful way. My post on The Gorge is a good example.Food for thought, anyway...
January 5th at 9:14 pm GMT
Comment #69
Forrest, that would work as well, and it does give you more control over the process, but I think that having to manually delete a link every time I interlink my posts would bug me, and probably put me off interlinking.
(Though perhaps encourge me to link out more instead?)
January 6th at 6:01 am GMT
Comment #70
My blog gets scraped a bit. It sounds like that's been more of a problem either in the past or for other people, but it's at least an annoyance.In a recent interview, Matt Cutts said that when Google sees the same content showing up on ten pages on ten different sites, but nine of them link back to one that doesn't link out to any of the others, they assume it's scraped, and transfer any pagerank the copies might attain to the original. ( He wasn't clear about whether you need to link to the specific page or just back to the domain the original was published on? )It's neighborly to link out, but I wouldn't let the trackbacks stop me from linking back to earlier posts.
January 6th at 12:07 pm GMT
Comment #71
Forrest, it sounds like the sort of thing that Google would be able to do (How hard can it be to catch on that a site is a splog?). They're also becoming a lot more consious of the time that content showed up on certain sites, so if you publish an article first, and then splog rips it a few days later, Google should have found it on your blog first hopefully. That might stand for something.
And if you're willing to take the time, then the manual way is great. I'm just a little lazy I suppose. With WP in the backend, I like to automate as much as possible.
January 6th at 11:49 pm GMT
Comment #72
Well, I got a little lost in this conversation. I think I got the gist though... I've had a few of those slightly dodgy trackbacks. Where the blog looked like nothing more than copying sections of text with a link to the author. One of them was extremely dodgy and caled me "americanshopper" rather than "kristarella"!
Should I delete all trackbacks that don't look useful to me?
January 6th at 11:52 pm GMT
Comment #73
BTW, not sure about this WYSIWIG comment editor. It's a good idea, but it didn't keep some of my line breaks just then, and it seems to insert some extra code that I get as plain text in emails when subscribed to comments.
January 7th at 1:02 am GMT
Comment #74
Kristarella - Yes, I'd delete the spammy trackbacks. Linking out to a spammy site is going to annoy your readers if they click the link, and could hurt you in Google (If it associates you with that spam site).
But I love the WYSIWYG! I haven't had any problems with it yet (Bar some teething problems in IE7, which should now be fixed).
The line-breaks you lost, were they multiple line breaks in a row? If so, I think that was WordPress, not the editor.
January 7th at 1:34 am GMT
Comment #75
Haha, ok.
I'd just hit enter a couple of times, I don't know what WP usually inserts there.
See how it goes this time.
Edit: oh, it didn't work. I've added all those breaks manually. Normally hitting enter adds a break or ends a paragraph, unless you turned it off. Curious. Maybe just my browser.
January 7th at 5:20 am GMT
Comment #76
Spectacular - works great! Thank you!
January 7th at 10:37 am GMT
Comment #77
Kristarella,
Hmm, what browser are you using? I'll try it out as well.
Tip Diva - Glad it worked for you.
January 7th at 11:45 am GMT
Comment #78
I was using Camino the last couple of times.Now I'm trying Safari.
January 7th at 12:21 pm GMT
Comment #79
I'm in Safari now. Let's see how it goes.
I don't have Camino though (Windows user).
EDIT - It left out the line breaks on me as well. I'll head over to the support forums to see if anyone else has had this problem.
January 7th at 12:30 pm GMT
Comment #80
And now that I've added more code;
Will
This
Work?
(Sorry about the emails Kristarella! xD )
EDIT - The line breaks worked for me now. What about you?
January 20th at 3:11 pm GMT
Comment #81
Thank you very much for this information. Found it via google cause it's annoying to have a trackback look like a comment. your hack works exactly as i wanted it!
January 29th at 7:33 am GMT
Comment #82
THANK YOU for this post! It was making me crazy that my trackback's were coming in as comments. Now that's all fixed.
January 29th at 1:14 pm GMT
Comment #83
Glad it worked for yous
February 1st at 5:45 pm GMT
Comment #84
Looks great, but I get a W3.org invalid page error. Do you know how to fix this?
end tag for "ol" which is not finished
Most likely, you nested tags and closed them in the wrong order. For
example <p><em>...</p> is not acceptable, as <em>
must be closed before <p>. Acceptable nesting is:
<p><em>...</em></p>
Another possibility is that you used an element which requires
a child element that you did not include. Hence the parent element
is "not finished", not complete. For instance, in HTML the <head> element
must contain a <title> child element, lists (ul, ol, dl) require list items (li,
or dt, dd), and so on.
February 1st at 6:44 pm GMT
Comment #85
to add to the above, it seems to only validate if there are either no comments and no trackpacks, or if there are both comments and trackbacks.If there are one and not the other on the post, then I get the invalid error above.
February 2nd at 1:15 am GMT
Comment #86
Millionare Money Habits - are you sure you're implementing the code correctly?
I'm using this method and I don't get validation errors. Here's the output from a page that's got lots of trackbacks. There are errors, but they're all for a plugin that has nothing to do with this.
February 2nd at 1:17 am GMT
Comment #87
By the way, dig the new sidebar Michael. It's really useful and easy to read.
February 2nd at 12:38 pm GMT
Comment #88
Millionaire Money Habits - The problem is that the original code put out some code, regardless of whether the post had any trackbacks or not.
I've updated it now though, thanks to Gary, with a few new lines that will fix that. The easiest way to fix your code would be delete the changes you made the other day (Sorry!), and then run through the post again.
Sorry for the hassle. I should have made that update a while back
February 2nd at 12:39 pm GMT
Comment #89
And Kristarella, thanks. There'll be a post up about it in a day or 2.
February 2nd at 3:33 pm GMT
Comment #90
Thanks Michael. I made the changes, but still get the W3C invalid response on posts that only have trackbacks and now comments.
Post that only have comments and no trackbacks are validating now, so there's progress.
Thanks!
February 2nd at 8:56 pm GMT
Comment #91
MMH - Ahh yes, that problem would remain. There's no easy way around that one. The only method I can think of is pretty messy and would involve running through all of the comments twice, just to check if there were any comments.
How important is the validation to you? It can't be very often that you get a post with trackbacks but no comments, and the fix for those occasions would be putting on needless extra server load in every page.
February 2nd at 9:06 pm GMT
Comment #92
I guess it's no biggie - i'm just being anal in having my pages validate for SEO purposes.I guess the easy thing to do would be to just add a comment to those posts. Thanks for all the help and quick replies!
February 2nd at 11:33 pm GMT
Comment #93
SEO purposes? I don't think that W3C valid code will have any impact on your SEO.
It might impact it if the errors were so bad that the search engines couldn't make sense of your page, but with a tiny error like this, there's nothing to worry about.
February 2nd at 11:40 pm GMT
Comment #94
Oh, ok. I didn't realize that. I thought it mattered for SEO. Thanks again!
February 3rd at 12:47 am GMT
Comment #95
No problem. See you around.
February 4th at 11:37 am GMT
Comment #96
Hum, I guess what comes around will come around.
Coincidense...
March 1st at 6:34 pm GMT
Comment #97
Thanks for the nice tip. I will implement this on my blog design.
March 2nd at 12:15 am GMT
Comment #98
milo,
Sorry, I didn't see your message before. But ack well, this code has been spread about in plenty of places by now.
Ramil,
No problem. Glad ya found it useful.
March 8th at 7:33 pm GMT
Comment #99
Thank you Michael for sharing your tips. I wanted to do this for some time. I am so glad your instructions were clear and precise, it worked on the first try.Cheers and more power to you and your blogging!
March 9th at 8:05 pm GMT
Comment #100
Merci,
I'm glad it worked for you, and that it was easy enough to follow!
March 12th at 10:13 pm GMT
Comment #101
Oh, perfect! Like a charm.It was the "don't show it if I don't have any" that I was looking for, and this worked like an absolute charm.Thanks so much.
March 12th at 10:28 pm GMT
Comment #102
Adam,
I like that as well. No need to mention trackbacks at all on a post that doesn't have any.
March 16th at 10:36 am GMT
Comment #103
Thanks for this article, you explain it really clearly.:)I'll do this on my blog too, although it isn't really necessary yet, I don't get a lot of trackbacks and pingbacks.
March 19th at 6:33 pm GMT
Comment #104
I'm loving this little trick. Really clearly explained. I never really get trackbacks, but it still is pretty usefule
March 19th at 11:40 pm GMT
Comment #105
Fabian and AJ,
Ahh well. Just look forward to the times when you do get a lot of trackbacks, and a trick like this is needed.
March 28th at 8:31 am GMT
Comment #106
Thanks .. it worked very well :)
March 28th at 11:31 am GMT
Comment #107
Very good hack. I've used it on my blog and now I like more the comments area. It's cleaner..Thanks
March 28th at 1:22 pm GMT
Comment #108
nice tip,thanks