Separating Trackbacks from Comments
593 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?
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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?
I noticed the same thing…
Yeah that seems to be happening to me also!
Check your settings and enable trackbacks showing on the article page. See what that’s doing for you
This was incredibly helpful. Now my reader’s comments are far cleaner and don’t appear littered.
Thanks a lot. :)
Have never understood why it’s not in WP core! :/
I noticed this too! Petite Maxi Dresses
wow its like hacking our link on our blog
I really want to download that picture. Really greta. The colour is blending perfectly. Where you make that picture> you really have a good sense in art, don’t you?
how with disquss comment??
how with disquss comment???
I am not thing so,it is working for me.
Very nice. Super Site!
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We had the same problem but when we enabled trackbacks in the settings it worked fine.
Enabling trackbacks in the settings it worked fine for us.
it works !! thanks
min Comments section but it doesn’t appear on my posts’ comments section even without any modificationsac adapter
This is a really good read for me. Thanks for posting this informative article.
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.
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I always separate the trackbacks from comments.
Nope, I’ve no idea how until I read this post.
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.
I suggest you put it below the comments cause it’s outside your site.
Really cool tips
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.
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 :)
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.
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
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 ;).
I hope that that will be the case someday Slevi. For 2 reasons. ;)
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?
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.
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 :P
@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.
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. :D
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?
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.
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!
I am new to this and this is the first time I’ve read or heard of “tackbacks”
What is a tackback?
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?
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>
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.
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).
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!)
Arrggh. I just found out it appeared in one of my post. :) This post of yours is going to be useful. ;)
Well, it will if it works! ;)
*fingers crossed*
I totally agree with you, it’s always best to seperate trackbacks and human comments.
I’m going to try this. :) Thanks.
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. :) )
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.
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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).
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!
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.
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!
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! :D
Suzanne – Thanks! Hope it works out for you.
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.
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!
No problem. If they were showing up before then the code above should definitely work, if you’ve tweaked it for Copyblogger. :)
I tried placing the code where Kristarella suggested.
You can see the result here:
http://www.jhsiess.com/hereslookingatme/2007/08/22/13-tips-back-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!
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.
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.
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
Just wanted to say thanks again Kristarella, and paidtwice now. It’s good of yous to help out. :)
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! :D I’ve just implemented this on my blog and it worked perfectly. I appreciate you sharing this advice.
No problem Tay. Glad it worked for ya. :)
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.
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.
Thanks Kristarella.
However, I notice that the “Trackbacks” wording repeats itself for each and every Trackback on the posts. :O
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!
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. :)
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)
Yep, the articles on SkellieWag display trackbacks like this. :)
Thanks so much!
I am going to use that now!
No problem. Let me know if you have any problems. :)
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.
:D
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:
Trackbacks
Do this:
Trackbacks
Hey Gary – Thanks for trying to help out, but there’s no code in your comment. Did something go wrong? :(
Hey Michael
Hmm, seems to have gone wrong. No matter, see http://www.osworld.biz/1004/seperating-trackbacks-from-comments/
Cheers, Gary
Looks good now, thanks. :)
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?
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.
Hehe – You must be subscribed to this post Kristarella. Thanks for helping Forrest out. :)
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!
lol – I wonder if Kristarella will pop in to say “Welcome” :D
I usually only come back when someone has an issue that they’re trying to solve ;)
Fair enough. I’m just glad you do. :D
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
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. :)
Thanks for the link Martin, and yes the plugin does work, for all you people out there with the same problem. :)
Nathan, glad to hear it and thanks for letting us know (I’ve bookmarked it now ;) )
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…
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?)
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.
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. :D
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?
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.
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. :(
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.
Spectacular – works great! Thank you!
Kristarella,
Hmm, what browser are you using? I’ll try it out as well.
Tip Diva – Glad it worked for you. :)
I was using Camino the last couple of times.Now I’m trying Safari.
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.
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?
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!
THANK YOU for this post! It was making me crazy that my trackback’s were coming in as comments. Now that’s all fixed. :-)
Glad it worked for yous :)
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.
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.
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.
By the way, dig the new sidebar Michael. It’s really useful and easy to read.
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 :(
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!
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And Kristarella, thanks. There’ll be a post up about it in a day or 2. :D
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!
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. :(
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!
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. :)
Oh, ok. I didn’t realize that. I thought it mattered for SEO. Thanks again!
Not sure if the trackback was to a site that you do not want to be associated with would not hurt the seo of your site. If your going to have trackbacks you should seperate them just so it looks like commants make sense. I have seen sites with trackbacks mixed in comments and it does not look good.
No problem. See you around. :)
Hum, I guess what comes around will come around.
Coincidense…
Thanks for the nice tip. I will implement this on my blog design.
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. :)
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!
Merci,
I’m glad it worked for you, and that it was easy enough to follow! :)
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.
Adam,
I like that as well. No need to mention trackbacks at all on a post that doesn’t have any. :)
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.
I’m loving this little trick. Really clearly explained. I never really get trackbacks, but it still is pretty usefule :)
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. :D
Thanks .. it worked very well :)
Very good hack. I’ve used it on my blog and now I like more the comments area. It’s cleaner..Thanks
nice tip,thanks
Thank you very much… this was very easy to follow and worked perfectly.
Thanks for the tip..nice work and site looks too nice
explaination is very clear and understandable
thanks
good luck
No problem everyone. Let me know if you have any trouble with it.
Thanks for this article;
this is very useful and very clear – easy to use
This is a great tutorial, thanks a lot. I’m just off to implement it now.
I’ve wanted to do this for a while, as trackbacks take up as much space as a comment at the moment, and people(ie me on other blogs) tend not to be as interested in them.
Thanks again
Hey thanks this worked for me!
Thanks very much, I spent a long while searching how to fix this and this was the easiest one and it actually worked. I appreciate it very much.
ive been reading this blog a while but this is my first comment. thank you for your article and your views
Great post. I’ve searching for this, and is really good explained. Thanks.
Great tip, thank you so much!!!
Btw, is there any code that makes possible to not count the trackbacks/pingbacks in the number of comments?
For example, in a post I have 5 comments.
1 for a user and 4 trackbacks.
I only want to show 1 comment instead of 5 comments.
Is possible? how? :)
Divvy,
This plugin should do the trick for you: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/ping-track-comment-count/
(Can’t guarantee it works on the latest version of WordPress though. The comments on that post are just full of spam sadly.)
arghhhhhhh almostttttttttttt…..
Is not working 100%, only appears the value, dont appears the word “comments”.
Appears for example “0”
Insteat of “0 comments”
Michael Martin, please can you give a look at the code for me? please? :)
If not, well, thank you anyway, it was a great help, better then nothing hehe
thanks a lot! it worked for me but now i wanna use a ajax reply plugin and i tried to find those line in comment.php file but there is no lines :(
Divvy,
Just add the word “comments” in after the plugin code. :)
Narendra,
Is it the plugin that you can’t install? Or the trackbacks script?
I’d be surprised if your comments.php file didn’t have the lines I’ve mentioned in the article. It would have to be extremely different not to have them.
I am really duhhhh lol
Thank you Michael Martin :)
Michael Martin, I dont want to abuse of my luck but……..
Can you take a look at the plugin code for me? To find a way to make for example “0 comments” clickable, or in another words, make that as a link like “http://www.domain.com/post title/#comments” or “http://www.domain.com/post title/#respond”.
I really appreciate your help :)
Divvy,
Just put the plugin code inside a regular link then. :)
E.g.
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>/#comments"><?php comment_type_count('comment'); ?> comments</a>
You are the MAN! Thank you so much mate! :D
This is very intresting!
thanks, very nice tips !!
Hey very useful tips, I had one blog where I had trackbacks enabled and the comments were huge., so I have just been disabling them since.
Thank you SO much for this post. I tried about 3 different ways before this, 2 of which worked, and none which were standards compliant when there were no trackbacks. This was easy to implement and customize. Thanks!
Yay it worked! Thank you!
Thanks,
It’s a very easy solution, and it looks much better now on my blog!
Good tutorial was easy to follow and implement.
Useful tutorial – I just tested it and works perfectly.
Instead of having a separate trackback area, I used only the code to remove it from the comments loop – I’m done with trackbacks. Rarely do I get genuine trackbacks, in any case (I also removed the RDF-something HTML comment for autodiscovery). I also moved the comment form above the comment loop – I think it would solicit more comments.
Thanks for posting this solution, just implemented on my blog – looks great! I always wanted to separate comments from trackbacks…
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I’m thinking of actually removing trackbacks altogether. I think they add clutter – your site looks nice and clean without them. Hmmm….
Thanks! Worked great for my site!
Thank you very much, worked great!
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step by step thank you in mind for if it ever would occur that I would start getting a lot of them
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Didn’t think when you wrote this over a year ago someone would still be happy to find it did you? You did? I knew you would :D Follow you via RSS and this post was just what I needed. Working on the li factor now to list the Trackbacks, but at least I have them now! Bravo! Thanks :D
Jo,
Haha, nope! I had no idea just how popular this post would turn out to be. The fact people are still reading it and implenting it amazes me! One of the most useful I’ve written I guess! :D
Thanks for posting this solution , worked great!
i agree with your opinon. thank you for this post. very intresting. i like it.
Great tutorial! I used your technique on a couple different blogs, and it worked like a charm for me! Thanks so much for you help.
Nice Tips
Thank you for Share This
So Cool Tips, Thank you
Thanks very much .. it worked ok.
thanks, very nice tips !!
Oh, perfect! I learned it
Hi Michael,
About time some made a plugin for this (hint hint).
I agree with you.
tnx for the original tutorial, much apreciated!
That worked like a charm – thanks for putting that together!
thx for this great tutorial, im gonna test it on my new blog, :)
fascinating and communicative, but would be suffering with something more on this topic?
Nice tips! thanks
This tutorial was exactly what I needed.
These small fixes here and there all around the blog can make such a big difference. This is exactly what I felt about the readability post also man! Wow! simple and thorough!
Thank you – nothing like a good trackback in the middle of a comment *conversation* – nice work.
thanks for this post.I now know what is trackback.
keep up the good work!
I don’t know about trackbacks but now i know about trackbacks and there use.Thank you.
i was looking for this
thank you so much
Thanks for this information rich tutorial.This is an asset for newbie bloggers
I put up my first personal blog yesterday and found this really helpful. Thanks for sharing. Where does everybody get the time?
Ive been looking to separate the two for a while now so thanks for creating a post on this subject.
This is a really stupid question but what language does the script need to be in?
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Very nice information. Thanks.
Hello Michael,
first of all great explenation and great overall tutorial structure.
To answere your question, i do use trackbacks because i think it’s a nice and very easy way to get to know the people browsing your site, reading your content and actually finding it helpful.
I do not have many trackbacks on my site but i will definitly change that in future ;)
Again, great article!
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Thank you for putting up this tutorial. Works like a charm in my blog.
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Wow. That worked perfectly! It actually makes the Trackbacks look a lot better on my blog :)
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I can’t find these code for my Thesis theme..
Another alternative, I must use the plugin.. :p
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lol – Good point – You don’t get this level of control over your Thesis theme, or if you did, you’d lose the changes each time you upgraded. :(
Sorry, stupid question here:
Where is the comments.php file found?
I have found 2 comment.php (no “s”) one in the includes and one in the admin, but I can’t find comments.php (with the “s”)
Neither of the comment.php files have the text I’m supposed to find.
Thanks for any help on this basic question!
Tom
Hi Tom,
It will be in wp-content/themes/your-theme-name . That’s the folder that contains all your theme files. If you ever need to edit anything to do with your design, it will be in one of the folders in there! :)
You never edit the files in wp-admin or wp-includes because your changes would be overwritten when you next upgrade WordPress.
Thanks Michael! I really appreciate the quick response! :)
Welcome, good luck now! :)
nice! thanks :)
Thanks, I used one of your trackbacks to work out how to put it before the comments :)
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Thanks for this, it helps wonders! Now to fix up the CSS.
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im gonna test it on my new blog
thanks
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Thanks for sharing! I’ve been looking to implement this onto my blog for a while now but never bothered, now after stumbling across this post, I have added it and it’s great! Such a simple method of making your blog look so much better. Thanks!
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Well done.
Very good tip :)
Thanks
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I guess this does not work anymore. Because WP 2.8+ has removed the loop with wp_list_comments()
You either need to define your own comment listing function or edit comment_templates.php in wp-includes folder
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I just added the code to my comments file. Works great.
I had to add some css padding to get the trackbacks in line with the title -mostly specific to my theme though.
Thanks much.
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Personally,I like php,but I never mind to put trackbacks and comments together.The key point is content.So I just focus on the content.
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Thanks for sharing! I’ve been looking to implement this onto my blog for a while now but never bothered, now after stumbling across this post, I have added it and it’s great! Such a simple method of making your blog look so much better. Thanks!
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In WP 2.8.x i try using this:
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wp_list_comments('type=ping'); <= for pingback
just in 2 lines code, more simple :D
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Thanks for this cool tutorial. I have been searching the net for this but only got those for the older versions of WP. Thanks again.
You can also use a tab element to separate the comments and trackbacks in another way if you wish. This would just be a different visual way to separate it. I found that some people really like tabs(myself for one). Tabs helps to consolidate a lot of information into on small area if space is an issue.
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Ask how long the benefits will last. ,
Great tutorial! Yup, it gets really annoying when there’s a bunch of comments and then a trackback sitting in between them.
Were physicians to use this same logic they would end up in the lawyer’s office every day. ,
I always wonder about track backs, i always use it but never study the original purpose and advantage a track back can give separately from the comment that we use to simply convey a message to the post opener about how we get the post and how much we liked it and other stuff, anyone help me telling something about track backs.
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It would be great to exclude the trackbacks from the comment count as well :)
This will come in very handy when im designing a new skin for my blog.
I do use trackbacks on my blog but I never actually put much thought into why but I guess if someone is nice enough to link to me, I want to be nice and trackback.
Nice coding… thanks for making life simple…
Thanks Michael, it helped me a lot.. I have now a more cleaner page with the comments neatly separated from the trackbacks.
Hi,
Nice howto, its work great.
Thanks
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Thank you so much for this! I thought you explained things very well. A lot of bloggers assume everyone knows a lot about coding and things, and don’t take the time to explain exactly where to put things, but your instructions were very simple and exact and made things very easy, even for those of us who are still learning! Again, thank you!
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This saved me alot of time, good post!
I do use trackbacks on my site, this post is very useful.
I’m going to start going into my comment.php file and setting this up right away.
Thanks! I was using IntenseDebate and I thought it wouldn’t work there, but now I quit ID system so I’ll try it out
Erm, I just went to try it, but the only code you told to search that I found in my comments is “”
I don’t have “” and
lol, it doesn’t show between “”. I mean I only have: in my comment, I don’t have the other two parts of the code.
Please, delete my others comments, sorry about that :(
Really great blog thanks for share information.
Thanks for this. I just implemented this on my blog.
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Very useful! I’ve just implemented it! Thank you very much for sharing!
This is just what I need :) thanks
Personally,I like php,but I never mind to put trackbacks and comments together.The key point is content.So I just focus on the content.
Thanks for the tuto mate I’ve just implemented this on the blog of one of my customers and it worked like a charm. So thanks again for sharing and have a nice week end :)
Depending on the type of post I make, I sometimes uncheck the ‘trackback’ checkbox. I found that some blogs have this separation feature already built-in in their themes. Some themes unfortunately lack this. Good tutorial. Thanks
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I just wonder what is the use of having a track back in a blog.
Yeah, it is better if there are no disruption in the comments area so that commenter can have a good view of the comments and can contribute well on the discussion.
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Thanks for this. I just implemented this on my blog.
thank you ;)
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Hey! Thanks for this. I have a suggestion to add. Some themes do not have the line ($comments as $comment) in them as they use some other format of the theme core files. Here is how it can be worked around, to get only the trackbacks. The simplest way is to include this:
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Yeah, these codes can help me a lot, I have to say, it’s very useful for solving some question.
i have read this, i will try in my blog..
thanks
Thanks for this. I just implemented this on my blog.
i’ve done it..
would be nice for my new small photoblog without any trackback
thanks
My comments.php does not have the codes you are referring to. Is there another way around it?
Will you write a updated version for wp 2.9, because WordPress changes the way to display comments, you know, wp_list_comments().
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Thank you admin good post !;D
yes don’t mix track backs with blog comments… it can get messy to read.
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I will add this to our website.
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Thank for sharing.
Well I followed your instructions to the letter and it didn’t change anything. I still have trackbacks appearing within the comments. I didn’t find the codes you talked about in comments.php – in my theme they were located in comments2.php.
Any suggestions?
I’m going to give this a try. I disabled the plugin that shows tweets as trackbacks because it was trashing up my comments section. If I can set them up cleanly below the comments I may reactivate that function. Thanks for the tutorial.
I do use trackbacks on my blog but I never actually put much thought into why but I guess if someone is nice enough to link to me, I want to be nice and trackback.
Personally,I like php,but I never mind to put trackbacks and comments together.The key point is content.So I just focus on the content.
Excellent info ,but I tired to find the code in my comment file which I did not get. while checking other files, I got another comments file whcih has that code ..
Thanks for this. I will add this function to my site.
Regards!
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Thank for function. ^ ^
It might cost the server a little more, but you’ll be glad of it if your server ever does crash.
Thank you for this snippet, I just managed to get it all done on my site.
I actually do use trackbacks on my blog. After all, connection is what it’s all about, isn’t it?
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thanks for the post,and be keeping eyes on it.
excellent function… Is it open source? I want to use it in my future projects.
Thanks!
also if it is not open source: can I buy it?
Something I hate in the comment section of some blogs is to see the flow of comments interrupted by a trackback non related to the current conversation. I Hope more webmasters will make use of your code to provide a better experience for their users.
Thanks for this code. I’ve added it to my word press install and I think its working. I might need to style it a bit better :)
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This is excellent! I just added it to my video screen capture web site. Thanks
In WP 2.8.x i try using this:
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wp_list_comments('type=ping'); <= for pingback
I’ve been looking to implement this onto my blog for a while now but never bothered, now after stumbling across this post, I have added it and it’s great!
I will follow your advice… hope that in the future I will not have more problems
I’ve found the relative usefulness or appropriateness of trackbacks in my comments section depends completely on the quality of commenters I have reading my site. It’s a shame that spam is defining the quality of service a webpage can deliver. In a perfect world (the world trackbacks were designed for) trackbacks add to the conversation (IMHO) not detract from it.
This was very useful info and will be adding it to my blog. Thanks!
Thanks for post, great solution!
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Nice article mate Thanks :)
finally I understand how to do it… I will post a link to this article to my industry news site
thanks for the tips. I will use them for my future projects
is it open source?
thank you love admin;P
hi i have a wordpress blog.
i can write and then in the wordpress user panel approve and view any comments made, but they cannot be displayed in the post, what is the problem?
It would be great if you can give a tutorial on how to separate between comments and post using tabs. Like the one used in 24ways.org . I believe it will be very useful to all. Thanks.
Another great set, I appreciate all the work you put into this site, helping out others with your fun and creative works.
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Thanks for this nifty tip :)
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Great tutorial providing very good information. Adding more values in my knowledge. Thanks
You clearly know so much about the subject, you’ve covered so many bases.
Another very solid tutorial. Thank you. Not something I can use right now but I bookmarked for the future.
As a webmaster , I’m very glad to see that someone thought to post this topic.
Thanks, however this is not what I need. The system is much more sophisticated than that.
Thank you for another great article. Where else could anyone get that kind of information
in such a perfect way of writing?
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that is the best way to separate
You never edit the files in wp-admin or wp-includes because your changes would be overwritten when you next upgrade WordPress.
Darn, I was really hoping this would work. I did exactly what you said and nothing changed in that all the trackbacks and pingbacks are still in my recent comments. Could this be an issue with the theme I’m using?
Thank you for another great article. Where else could anyone get that kind of information
in such a perfect way of writing?
Great article , this is why i love wordpress
I think it could be an issue with the theme.
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Interesting post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for posting.
Pretty cool post.It’s really very nice and useful post.Thanks for sharing this with us!it’s my first visit.Pretty
cool post.It’s really very nice and useful post.
Great article , this is why i love wordpress
Your work is very good and I appreciate you and hopping for some more informative posts. thank you for sharing great
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Thanks for this great tutorial. It works very nice on my blog and my comment section looks neat now. :)
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If they appear in your comments area, it does mean that they’re enabled and have been saved as post comments.
The blog is absolutely fantastic. Lots of great information and inspiration, both of which we all need. Thanks for sharing such wonderful post.
I wonder how long it will take for a new higher grade blogging software to knock them of their spot? Your work is very good and I appreciate you and hopping for some more informative posts. thank you for sharing great
I tried to make your plugin work on my site but it really messed things up and I had to deactivate and delete it. Bummer cuz I really wanted to make this work. Anyway, I learned that even if you paste the original code into one of the edit boxes that some of the trackback code was left over from before (even though you can’t see it) which required me to edit the file in my cpanel.
Your work is very good and I appreciate you and hopping for some more informative posts. thank you for sharing great! Keep on the good job!
You have an excellent way of working. I really appreciate your effort. Thanks for sharing.
I never really thought about separating the trackbacks from the comments but I will have to see how my theme is set up and give this code a try to see what happens. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much!, Michael Martin
I am going to use that now! :D
once while changing permalink , i had issues with trackback not working .. :(
Great article , i love wordpressv:)
I’m going to try this. :) Thanks.
I’m too try it now . Thanks for sharing
Would you be so kind to integrate “separating trackbacks from comments” in your Comments “template” at “http://www.problogdesign.com/wordpress/advanced-wordpress-comment-styles-and-tricks/”? That would be fantastic :) Thank you
Can I ask is there any relation in this separation of trackbacks when you comment on a blog and a blank exists after you made any comment?
Hello,
I’ve noticed that I must have an older theme for I don’t have the wp_list_comments function in my comments.php file. Because of this, I have no way to paginate my comments and desperately need to. I am willing to pay anyone with knowledge on how to update my comments.php file so that I can paginate my comments. If you think you can help me, please email me at melissaaggie98@att.net Thanks so much!
Hi Melissa,
Sorry, the problem is more likely that your theme is actually a little too *new* you’ll be glad to hear!
I will publish a new post on the site on Monday with updated instructions on how to do this in newer themes!
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Just implemented this on my blog and comments look a lot nicer now. Thanks for such an easy to follow tutorial.
Seems like an awesome plugin but I couldn’t get it to work properly. I even had to go into my cpanel to clean up the mess.
I was thinking that trackbacks are like normal comments.. but after reading this article now i know the purpose of it.. Thanks :)
Trackbacks are one of the stupidest features in the blogosphere. I’m not stupid and it took be probably a year of “oh what the hell is that? oh i don’t even care” before I learned what trackbacks actually were. Why do people always have to think of a new word for a feature? Why can’t trackbacks just be “Links to this post”?
this was unbelievably easy to use. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this tutorial, I looked at a couple of others but they referenced php code that was completely different to how mine comments template is set up. Looking at the age of this post my code is probably outdated as this tut matched it exactly. But it works like a charm and only took a couple of minutes to implement.
I just need to tackle nested replies now. :)
Great post! thanks.
Great post! Much appreciated!
Thanks for the help. I’m not usually sure what to do with trackbacks, as I really don’t like them in the stream of comments :)
This was incredibly helpful. Thanks for the help. Its really help us lot
Might have to implement this….
Nice tutorial, I’ve just used it for my comment template, thank you
Well I don’t see this line:
Probably my template is coded to use it differently. I’ll try to dig more into the code to achieve this feature.
Regards.
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I was looking for just this, ideal, thankyou! i wanted to keep trackbacks but annoying to just disable them. i will be implementing this right away!
Thanks for useful information. But how to find trackback url for my post? I added trackback url function above the comment form but it is redirecting to the post itself. What is the code to show trackback url of blog post?
Mixing of trackbacks with the comments clutters up the comments section. Thanks for this helpful post..
Nowadays, I’m getting too many trackbacks from autoblogs. Is it worth approving them?
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I am agree with it. “The comments are a conversation between between real people.” Comment is comment, If I will like any post so, put positive comment and will not like any post so, put negative comment. I have one Word Press blog & searched for track back so, I am here & happy to read your instruction. I am looking forward to read your more post on my Google reader. Thanks !!
Good one. Readers will be pleased to see the comments separated from your trackbacks. It will be easier for them to track the conversation on the comments area.
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Thanks for this, going to give it a try. I’m getting a lot of trackbacks in certain posts, and I feel they really mess with the flow of the member comments, so not a good user experience for them.
Cheers!
Thanks for this, im going to try it out on my blog get alot of track backs
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Good one. Readers will be pleased to see the comments separated from your trackbacks. It will be easier for them to track the conversation on the comments area.
Mike previously they used to be very confusing as they were mixed together, but now wordpress default setting is already displaying them separately..
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I’ve always wondered how to get that effect, cause my trackbacks are mixed up with the comments and it’s not really nice and tidy. You can write a css dropdown div to use for the trackbacks so it keeps them hidden from your viewers and if they want they could collapse the tab and look at the links. That’s what i did anyways.
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I was looking for just this, ideal, thankyou! i wanted to keep trackbacks but annoying to just disable them. i will be implementing this right away!
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How do you separate Recent Comments from Recent Trackbacks in your sidebar?
My Recent Comments is now a widget that came with the (Revolution) theme, but it shows the comments and trackbacks all mixed together.
And even more annoying, it shows trackbacks from internal links between my own articles. Does the code above prevent that? or do you have to somehow exclude it from showing trackbacks where you yourself are the author, or from your own URL, or something like that?
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And even more annoying, it shows trackbacks from internal links between my own articles. Does the code above prevent that? or do you have to somehow exclude it from showing trackbacks where you yourself are the author, or from your own URL, or something like that?
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This is enlightening, I made the decision to disable trackbacks a little while back. I’ll have to take another look at it now.
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I was also confused about displaying trackbacks.
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Wow, I did not know you could do that, separate track backs, I always thought you had to group them, thanks, I learn something new.
I didnt know at all that you could separate trackbacks folks, I am honest.
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Spam alerts? On trackbacks? ohh… So curious on getting spams on trackbacks…
I would think trackbacks would be good for SEO purposes. So you can disable them on comments.
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Once you have done the , customizing track backs to appear however you want them to is simple.
I’m on wordpress 3.1.1 and there’s no “” line on my comments.php file…
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I meant the line $comment as $comments
It seems that the code is not autohorized in the comment…
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