Separating Pingbacks/Trackbacks from comments in WordPress 2.0

Here’s some code below to enable you to separate pingbacks/trackbacks from comments in WordPress 2.0. Pingbacks/trackbacks are listed first, followed by comments in this example. It will also not show the excerpt for pingbacks/trackbacks and just show the link for these.

The basic idea is to loop through your comments twice – once displaying the pingbacks/trackbacks and once displaying the comments.

Copy and paste this code into your comments template – you’ll need to remove the old display of comments first.


<?php if ($comments) : ?>
<h3 id="trackbacks">Trackbacks/Pings</h3>
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php if (get_comment_type() != "comment"){ ?>
<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?> smaller" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
<cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite>
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
<em>Your comment is awaiting moderation.</em>
<?php endif; ?>
<br />
<p class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php edit_comment_link('e','',''); ?></p>
</li>
<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = '';
else $oddcomment = 'alt';
?>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
<h3 id="comments">Comments</h3>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php if (get_comment_type() == "comment"){ ?>
<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
<cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite>
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
<em>Your comment is awaiting moderation.</em>
<?php endif; ?>
<br />
<p class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php edit_comment_link('e','',''); ?></p>
<?php comment_text() ?>
</li>
<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = '';
else $oddcomment = 'alt';
?>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>