Title: Soring comments by type
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Soring comments by type

 *  [Jayvie Canono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaius_mohiam/)
 * (@gaius_mohiam)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soring-comments-by-type/)
 * Hi, does anyone know how to sort the output of the comments to sort them by trackbacks,
   pingbacks, and real-person comments? I know there is a function called `comment_type`.
   If I include two comment loops — one for pings and the other for comments — how
   can I make each loop exclude certain comment types?
    Even I am not very big on
   separating comments as pings and real-person comments, but as wordpress grows
   and is adopted by even bigger bloggers, the greatest feedback I am getting is
   that the presence of pings between comments hampers discussion flow.

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 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soring-comments-by-type/#post-44075)
 * For improving discussion flow, you want to try the threaded comments hack, which
   lists comments in threads. A search in these forums would lead to at least a 
   couple of threads in which that hack is discussed.
 *  Thread Starter [Jayvie Canono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaius_mohiam/)
 * (@gaius_mohiam)
 * [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soring-comments-by-type/#post-44091)
 * Thank you. I know about the threaded comments hack but a more minimalist solution
   is what my friends are asking for. Some have already reverted to the pre-.72 
   method of separating the comments between two popup windows but they (and myself)
   are wondering if separating comments according to comment type is possible. I
   can probly take care of rewriting the loop for wp-comments.php but i do not know
   where to start with filtering the comment types.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jayvie Canono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gaius_mohiam/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/soring-comments-by-type/#post-44091)
 * Status: not resolved

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