Title: seperating trackbacks?
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# seperating trackbacks?

 *  [codimonki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codimonki/)
 * (@codimonki)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seperating-trackbacks/)
 * Hi everybody!
 * I have at [http://www.tvblogger.de](http://www.tvblogger.de) on the left side
   a list of the recent comments. when i have a trackback in one of my posts, it
   is shown everywhere as a comment.
 * how can i seperate the trackbacks from the comments? is there a possibility in
   wp 1.5 for something like that?

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seperating-trackbacks/#post-208942)
 * Are you using a plugin to retrieve the latest comments? If so, you’d have to 
   probably modify the SQL query it’s using to get the information.
 * One of the entries in the ‘wp_comments’ table is ‘comment_type’. It can either
   be ‘comment’, ‘trackback’, or ‘pingback’.
 * The SQL query should be changed to just return entries that are of type comment,
   of course. 🙂
 * Regards
 *  [junebleeds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junebleeds/)
 * (@junebleeds)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seperating-trackbacks/#post-208943)
 * Joen wrote a little guide on seperating Track/Pingbacks for your comments page.
   Perhaps the same method can be applied to the recent comments plugin (or whatever
   you are using to display them).
 * Here is the [link](http://www.noscope.com/journal/2005/01/wp-separating-trackbacks-pingbacks)
   to the guide.
 *  [thebloke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thebloke/)
 * (@thebloke)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seperating-trackbacks/#post-208944)
 * What I did was go through different themes and found one that separated the trackback
   from the comments, and then figured out how they did it and hacked the code from
   that theme to my theme. I don’t exactly remember how I did it, but I think it
   is in the comments.php. I looked at it a moment ago, but I am not able to confidently
   tell you what it is that I did. Looks like I duplicated the section where it 
   listed the comments, and then put in a conditional statement that goes something
   like:
 *  <? if ($comment->comment_type == “trackback” || $comment->comment_type == “pingback”
   || ereg(“<pingback />”, $comment->comment_content) || ereg(“<trackback />”, $
   comment->comment_content)) { ?>
 * And then included the other functions to list the trackbacks by themselves. I
   also then hacked in the nice features of alternatively displaying different backgrounds
   for the posts.
 * I remember it took me only about half an hour to do that which is good, and I
   didn’t break anything. 🙂 Hope that helped… Others more knowledgeable might chime
   in with more precise help!

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seperating-trackbacks/#post-208944)
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