Separate WordPress Comments and Trackbacks
July 14, 2008 · Print This Article
With all the WordPress themes available to WordPress users, it always surprises me how these incredible theme authors don’t take a few extra seconds to separate their theme’s trackbacks from the comments. It doesn’t look very professional and it can make it extremely difficult to follow a conversation in the comments.
Separating your trackbacks and comments requires a minimal amount of coding work to set up. First, you’ll want to make a backup of your comments.php file just in case something goes wrong. Next, follow these three steps:
1 ) Access your comments.php file and locate the following code:
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
Immediately after the above code, you’ll want to place this code:
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type == 'comment') { ?>
2 ) Next, you’ll want to scroll down a little bit and locate the following code:
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
Immediately before the above code, you’ll want to place this code:
<?php } /* End of is_comment statement */ ?>
This will filter out all of the trackbacks and pingbacks from your main comments loop. Now we need to create a second comments loop to display the trackbacks and pingbacks.
3 ) Almost immediately below the code from step 2 you should find this code:
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
Immediately before the above code, you’ll want to place this code:
<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>
You can adjust this code to display how you want to, including using a different header if you have a specific look for your header 3.
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