Separate Comments & Pings Plugin
Separate Comments & Pings is a WordPress plugin that removes all pings and trackbacks from your comments pages and allows you to display them on their own, enhancing the flow of conversation. You can find more details about why you would want to do this in the guide to separating comments and pings.
To summarize:
- Removes pings and trackbacks from comment pages
- Makes pings and trackbacks available in a new variable
$pings - Automatically adjusts comment count
Installation
The plugin is simple to install:
- Download separate-comments-pings.zip
- Unzip
- Upload
separate-comments-pingsdirectory to your/wp-content/pluginsdirectory - Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
This plugin is not compatible with the Paged Comments Plugin - you will need to read separating comments and pings article and implement the functionality independently.
Usage
Once the plugin is installed no pings or trackbacks will appear in your comments. Should you wish to display pings and trackbacks as a separate list then you will need to follow the details given in separating comments and pings.
Comments
Aug 4, 2007 11:55 am
Thanks a bunch! Very helpful.
Just wondering if there was a way so that, on the index page, it won't show '1 comments' when there's a trackback/ping? When you actually check the permalink the trackback doesn't appear int he comments, but it still shows as '1 comment' on the main page.
Thanks!
Aug 6, 2007 1:58 am
There's not an easy way to remove pings from the value shown on the index page, at least not without impacting site performance.
Sep 12, 2007 8:41 pm
I tried this in my blog. Basically, I placed it in my plug-ins folder and activated it. How come it does not work? Do I need to do the manual edit of comments.php for this to work?
Sep 15, 2007 4:49 am
Just by installing the plugin you should see that pings are no longer included in your comments. If you want to display pings separately then you'll need to follow the details in the extra guide.
Sep 17, 2007 10:06 pm
I am currently using the plug-in Brian's Threaded comments (which requires you to change your comments.php file) and the pingbacks are still showing. However, if I revert back to the original comments.php file, the separate comments & pings plug-in works. These two plug-ins are not compatible with each other?
Sep 19, 2007 12:30 pm
Very nice, simple, plugin. Thank You.
What line of code do I need to use to get this to work on pages vs. the main index.php?
Sep 19, 2007 9:07 pm
The plugin should work on every page, Jamie. What effect are you trying to achieve?
Sep 19, 2007 11:23 pm
I don't know LOL I have one particular thread that has a lot of ping backs. I downloaded your plugin, dropped it in my plugins folder.. then, activated it. Once active, I viewed my page with a lot of trackbacks/pings and all of them still appear... the page is http://tnchick.com/pshunt/ your plugin is currently active.
Sep 19, 2007 11:25 pm
P.S. I use paged comments - perhaps that is my problem?
Oct 21, 2007 10:23 am
This plugin doesn't seem to work for me either, trackbacks still appear as normal.
Oct 21, 2007 10:24 am
P.S. That is with paged comments plugin running as well.
Oct 23, 2007 3:15 am
This plugin is not compatible with the paged comments plugin (I've made a note of this in the docs)
Mar 6, 2008 11:29 pm
Hi, really nice plugin but i installed and activate it and nothing happend, i could not find any readme for any other instructions.
thanks
Mar 7, 2008 3:48 am
Ganha, usage instructions are detailed in the page above
Sep 3, 2008 11:12 am
I wish I saw this plugin earlier... It took me an hour to figure out and made the separation by myself... with different approach of course.
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