Most wordpress themes out there (by default) combine both comments and trackbacks / pingbacks together and display under the same list. But why bother separating them? Simply to make things looks more organize so your blog commenters have a clearer picture what are the comments, what’s not. Doing it is not hard, but you need toe be using independent Wordpress blog (not the wordpress.com), provided with access to change comments.php. Prepare your favorite editor, and here we go.
You will be adding and editing you comments.php. So do a backup of that file before you start amending it.
Step 1
Look for:
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
Paste after:
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type == 'comment') { ?>
Step 2
Look for:
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
Paste before:
<?php } else { $trackback = true; } /* End of is_comment statement */ ?>
Step 3
Look for:
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
Paste before:
<?php if ($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 } ?>
That’s it. Update your blog and you’ll notice Trackbacks have been pulled out from comments and displayed underneath. If you want to display Trackbacks before comments. the easiest way is adding <div> to both and control the style via CSS. Have fun.
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Posted by hongkiat in Wordpress, Wordpress Tips Tricks , at 06.08.08
Tags: comments, pingbacks, separate, trackbacks, Wordpress |
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Comments
Tan Kahong June 9th, 2008
This is a very good tips indeed. Thanks for sharing.
ReplySyahid A. June 9th, 2008
Good wordpress tips HK. The way you arrange the comments and trackbacks is really practical.
ReplyMat June 10th, 2008
Nice tips..Thanks a lot HK
Replyxiaomo June 19th, 2008
thank you~useful
ReplyJORGE July 29th, 2008
bueno
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Appreciate the help mate :)
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ReplyIvor October 22nd, 2008
Thank you.
ReplyIt worked out perfectly.
p@r@noid December 27th, 2008
Didnot worked for me probably using the third party theme or something I missed :(
Replyhoolio February 7th, 2009
RS7vjd hi! this is
ReplyAltevaKetquet February 11th, 2009
Interesting and communicative, but would make something more on this topic?
ReplyRad April 7th, 2009
Thanks for the fix, worked a treat.
ReplyDavid April 18th, 2009
thanks! it works well
ReplyPatrick Sweeney July 7th, 2009
Is there a way to work this with WordPress 2.8 since it uses a new system of displaying the comments?
Replyimad July 14th, 2009
thas goode
Replykasumi August 24th, 2009
Thank you soooo much! I was serching this for hours! Sry for my bad englisch!
ReplyPolokokta September 15th, 2009
THX :)
ReplyGenry September 23rd, 2009
Thank you soooo much!
ReplyEzuca October 3rd, 2009
Thank You so much. I have been looking for this.
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