It did the work for me.. 🙂

Thanks for reading.

I was gonna implement this on my theme but when I looked it was already implemented! 😀

I think nobody trackbacked me at all :/

I definitely agree with this. Nothing worse than trying to read comments and having to wade through trackbacks.

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Great tip…I implemented it per your code. Just make sure when you add this code in the loop

it’s above this code

I had it the other way around and if you don’t have any comments on the post but some trackbacks, the trackbacks won’t show.

Great article overall..thanks for the tips!

~David

I found a tutorial about separating the comments and trackbacks. It involves a separate function (split_comments) that I have in my functions.php file. My theme is kind of warped, so I did some major overhauling of it and hopefully made it a little easier to work with.

I have included Gravatars in the comments, separated the comments and trackbacks, and after reading some of these comments, I added a simple if statement to keep from displaying the Comments header when there are only trackbacks. I think the split_comments function is what allows me to easily run the if statement.

I just used that code, modified it a bit, and then threw in the following right before the Comments header.

if ( count( $bm_comments ) > 0 ) {
…
}

<?php if($comment_type != ‘comment’) { $is_trackback = “is_trackback”; } ?>

This code checks to see if ANY of the comments in the loop are
trackbacks, and assigns the variable as shown.

Then, in the code that displays the actual trackbacks (which in my case
is below the comments) this is my code:
<?php if ($is_trackback == “is_trackback”) { ?>
<h4>Trackbacks to Other Blogs</h4>
<ul id=”trackbacks”>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type != ‘comment’) { ?>
<li>

I am also making a theme that makes use of the same code. I’ve been thinking about making a plugin that does this for you but am not sure how best to work it since people style and lay out their comments in different ways.

Thank you.

Justin Dupre