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1. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   OK, I'm slowly working on the little things with my theme.

   I redid my comments a while back, and I guess I don't totally understand what I've done? :/ (no surprise)

   What I've got going on is all well and good, I like the results. I was going through a tutorial on separating my trackbacks from my comments.... however what I've got now doesn't even display trackbacks. It does include them in the count.. like on a post with no comments and 3 trackbacks, it will say 3 comments, but show nothing.

   I'll just post this up here in case someone feels frisky and wants to take a look, maybe at least help me understand a bit.... what have I got going on here that doesn't display trackbacks?

   How would I get them back? (Bonus points for helping me separate the trackbacks from the comments, but if I can understand what's what here, maybe I can work through the reste)

   Here's all the code, comments.php on top, functions.php on bottom
   http://wordpress.pastebin.com/0iVpJaRB

   Thanks folks!

2. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Line 19
   wp_list_comments('type=comment&callback=advanced_comment')

   The type is setting the type of comments to fetch.

   There's a function for seperating the comments by type..
   http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.0.1/wp-includes/comment.php#L633

   However, there's also the second parameter in comments_template().
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_template

   I've not tried to seperate comment types before myself.. just thought i'd point toward those two functions as possible areas of interest... :)

3. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks much!

   I have no idea how I missed that, cuz I've been through the codex a few times...but there it is...explained clear as day!

   Thanks for pointing that out, gives me something to work with!

4. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Of course it might just be easier to do something like..
   

   <ul>
       <?php wp_list_comments('type=comment'); ?>
       <?php wp_list_comments('type=pingback'); ?>
   </ul>

   Never tried it, but i'd consider that a simple method.. you could even have different callbacks for each different type (in theory - again not tried it).

   Always happy to help though... ;)

5. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yup, everything was pretty much ready to go to separate things... I just had to repeat the lising with the pings type like so:

   <ol class="commentlist">
   		<?php wp_list_comments('type=comment&callback=advanced_comment'); //this is the important part that ensures we call our custom comment layout defined above
                   ?>
   	</ol>
   <h3 class="commentTitle">Trackbacks and Pingbacks</h3>
   <ol class="commentlist">
   		<?php wp_list_comments('type=pings&callback=advanced_comment'); //this is the important part that ensures we call our custom comment layout defined above
                   ?>
   	</ol>

   Works perfectly..... I'm having a 'thick' week.... I seriously looked over that bit of code, and the wp_list_comments codex page like ten times. As soon as you nudges me, I had it all sorted in about 2 minutes!

6. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I must say, i definately do prefer seperated comment types myself, annoying reading a good blog's comments only to have to keep skipping over piles of trackbacks and pings in between.

   More nudges available on request ... :)

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