Eric Meyer’s Trackback/comments plugin

  • Erm has anyone actually got this plugin to work?
    https://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/wordpress/mw_comments_trackbacks.html

    Basically as I understand it you just put

    <?php function mw_comments('') ?>
    Where you want the text of the comments to go? So this would replace the <?php comment_text() ?> tag?

    ‘<?php function mw_trackbacks(”) ?>’ could just be added anywhere and it should show the actual trackback?

    I couldn’t find anything further about this plugin and I really want to sort out the trackback and comments seperation.

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  • Eric can sometimes be caught in #wordpress too

    Thread Starter khaled

    (@khaled)

    erm where’s his e-mail address? the FAQ section doesn’t seem to have it, except a link to his consultancy…

    Thread Starter khaled

    (@khaled)

    okay if anyone sees Eric on #wordpress could they point him in this direction maybe he can shed some light on this. Once I get his e-mail I’ll drop him a line, dunno when/if we’ll get an answer but once it’s solved I’ll write up a nice readme for it, and post it here and on my site.

    Yes – we wouldnt want to start hacking prematurely ??

    I’ve left a message with one of the bots in #wordpress.

    I’m sorry I didn’t reply sooner, guys. I honestly lost sight of this thread (I really need to start making use of the RSS feeds).

    I had to dig for an old version of my style (pre-1.5) to remember how I did it, exactly. Remember, this is based off of Scripty’s code to separate the ping/trackbacks and comments into separate lists.

    I used the <?php mw_trackbacks() ?> function as follows:

    <h4><?php mw_trackbacks(count) ?> Loved Me Elsewhere</h4>
    <ol class="commentlist">
    <li class="comment">blah blah code here</li>
    <ol>

    For the <?php mw_comments() ?> function, I did the same thing:

    <h4><?php mw_comments(count) ?> Loved Me Right Here</h4>
    <ol class="commentlist">
    <li class="comment">blah blah code here</li>
    <ol>

    This returned the numbers of Ping/Trackbacks above the separated Ping/Trackback list, as well as the number of comments above the comment list.

    I didn’t actually replace anything; only added those two functions to my wp-comments.php file (this was with version 1.21, remember). When I installed 1.5 locally and upgraded my style to a theme, I noticed that Scripty’s code no longer worked (different calls, I guess… not too sure there), so I just deactivated Eric’s plugin and gave up on separating comments from track/pingbacks. Hope that helped a little,

    By the way, here is a link to my old wp-comments file so you can see what I mean more clearly. Also, I’m terribly sorry if I totally screw up the page with pasting that code. Color me stupid but I still can’t figure out what “Put code in between backticks” means. Again, I’m sorry if I bork everything. (EDIT: Hey cool. I finally got it… and it seems that my server isn’t supporting .phps files. I’ll have to figure that one out tomorrow. Sorry it doesn’t look nice.)

    https://solitary-pagans.com/test/wp-comments.phps

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