Title: Separating comments from pingbacks and trackbacks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Separating comments from pingbacks and trackbacks

 *  [wgmeisheid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wgmeisheid/)
 * (@wgmeisheid)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/)
 * Is there a reason that pingbacks and trackbacks are intermixed with comments?
   Am I doing something wrong ([http://beyondtherim.meisheid.com](http://beyondtherim.meisheid.com))?
   Can I have the comments attached to the post and have the tracking info in its
   own area? I couldn’t find anything in the search to help me.

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 *  [Mark McKibben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/manzabar/)
 * (@manzabar)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-81833)
 * Nope, that’s just how WordPress works; however you can use [ScriptyGoddess’s hack](http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/06/21/separating-comments-and-trackbacks/)
   to seperate them.
 *  Thread Starter [wgmeisheid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wgmeisheid/)
 * (@wgmeisheid)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-81898)
 * I need to learn more about the programming side…
    Does anyone besides me see 
   having them all mixed as confusing to the non-technical reader, especially when
   they try to scan comments?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-81899)
 * I think if you regularly get a lot of pb/tb stuff, then it’s probably worthwhile
   doing, but for certainly in my case, there isn’t the load there to justify the
   work.
    On certain blogs powered by EE / MT, all I seem to see is ‘Trackbacks (
   0)’ which also seems just to clutter up the main area. Each to their own 🙂
 *  [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-82390)
 * How is that more clutter than comments & Trackbacks (0)? Plus having a trackback
   link allows you to lead other bloggers to your trackback url.
 * I want to show trackbacks in its own popup like comments-popup.
 *  [crowspeaker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crowspeaker/)
 * (@crowspeaker)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-82391)
 * I have hardly any traffic on my site, but I did set up a label to clearly differentiate
   the types of feedback.
 * Here’s the URL to the ONE article that has a pingback:
 * [http://www.crowspeaker.com/2005/04/24/brick-by-yellow-brick/](http://www.crowspeaker.com/2005/04/24/brick-by-yellow-brick/)
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-82392)
 * More solutions for “separating comments from pingbacks and trackbacks”:
 * [http://search.wordpress.org/Separating+comments+from+pingbacks+and+trackbacks](http://search.wordpress.org/Separating+comments+from+pingbacks+and+trackbacks)
 *  [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-82393)
 * crowspeak,
    How does that show trackbacks in a seperate page?
 * Macmanx,
    I have been to all those links numerous times now. This issue has never
   been resolved. I have placed a feature request.
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-82394)
 * I use [Separation Anxiety](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/anxiety/trunk/) 
   to display my pingbacks and trackbacks in my sidebar, distinct from comments.
 * In theory, pingbacks and trackbacks are supposed to be thought of “remote comments”.
   In this context, there’s some value to displaying them inline with “regular” 
   comments.
 * It’s your blog, though, so you should control the layout as you feel is appopriate.
 *  [brianbonner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianbonner/)
 * (@brianbonner)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separating-comments-from-pingbacks-and-trackbacks/#post-82395)
 * This was enough coding information to allow me to do whatever I want with the
   trackback and pingbacks!
 * [http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/wp-separating-trackbacks-pingbacks](http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/wp-separating-trackbacks-pingbacks)

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