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Trackping Separator Plugin

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23 Responses to “Trackping Separator Plugin”
By Elliott
on Dec 17, 2005 | Reply

Thanks for the plugin. Looks like the only thing we’re missing is a replacement for the comments_number() function, which still counts all comments and trackbacks together.

For instance, when you want to say “There have been 11 comments about this post”
By mk
on Dec 17, 2005 | Reply

In case you still want the old style (no. of comments + trackbacks/pingbacks), just use back the old function comments_number() !
By Serge Lafont
on Jan 2, 2006 | Reply

Hi… I’m getting the following error message on my index:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: trackback_popup_link() in /home/.jacquerie/alfiga/blog.agarzola.com/wp-content/themes/rin/index.php on line 28
By mk
on Jan 2, 2006 | Reply

Hello Serge,

Seems I have messed up with the instruction above. Please refer to the latest version.

Sorry for your inconvenience.
By sahas
on Feb 24, 2006 | Reply

hey, thanks a lot this was what i was looking for for a while. just one question though, as elliott stated above i am not able to get my comment number on the single page to show just the number of comments. it is currently showing the number of tracbacks/pingbacks/comments total even though they are not displayed under the comments section. Everything else works fine so far though. thanks. please emailme or just reply here. thanks
By mk
on Feb 24, 2006 | Reply

Seems I have miss that function in the document.
There’s a function comments_only_number() which has the same effect as comments_number(), saves it only shows the number of comments.
To show pure numbers, I suggest
comments_only_number(’0′, ‘1′, ‘%’);

Hope that helps
By sahas
on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply

thanks for the help that was usefull, but one 2 more questions
I am trying to format it so that it looks like the ping back at the bottom of http://getk2.com/2006/02/welcome-to-k2/ so that it shows the date and whether its a pingback or trackback, but it doesn’t work with the function calls i tried. can u write out how to do this? also when i placed the favatar function into your loop it just displayed the same favatar over and over.

and finally how do i limit the length of a name of a commentor or pingback/trackback. because sometimes they are awfully long is there a code u can enter that automatically limits them to 30characters for example?
By mk
on Feb 25, 2006 | Reply

Seems you are using the trackback/pingback loop right?

Try to modify the loop variable for the track/pings you get from trackpings() to $comments, since favatars.php uses $comments as the reference to retrieve the icon from the database. The solution also applies on all other comment-loop based functions and plugins.

To limit the length of those fields, I think either you have to use substr() (or mb_substr() for i18n support) function from PHP. You could read about it here .
By sahas
on Mar 5, 2006 | Reply

i am not able to retrive the time yet. i tried using comment_time; ?>

also how do you make it show whether the item is a trackback or a pingback so that i can say this for example

Google Blog
pingback at 03/30/06
By mk
on Mar 6, 2006 | Reply

Try this:
$comment->comment_date
where $comment is the comment loop variable.
however u may need some PHP time funcion to customize the output format.
By sahas
on Mar 10, 2006 | Reply

hey sorry to bug you again. the comment date thing didn’t work. it just continously loops the last comment post. so it keeps using the same date a the last comment. and it does the same thing for the permalink ID number. how can i fix this.
By mk
on Mar 11, 2006 | Reply

Could you kindly post your code or mail it to me so that I could see what actually happens? Thanks
By sahas
on Mar 14, 2006 | Reply

hey mk, i placed the code in a txt here http://www.sahaskatta.com/mycode.txt

my main goal with this is to be able to pass the new values through, because currently only the full comment, url and title are going through. i want it so that i can call upon the date time and anything such as a favicon that is accociated with them. Thanks for all the help.
By cay
on Mar 15, 2006 | Reply

“echo” is missing on line 2 at the comments.php code.

before trackpings(’count’)
By mk
on Mar 17, 2006 | Reply

umm… I don’t know will the comment_time() function inside the trackback loop will do weird things… I suggest $comment->comment_date instead.
By Joefish
on Jul 9, 2006 | Reply

I’m using TPS and I love it. But I’m having the same problem as “sahas” above. All of my trackbacks/pingbacks will display the same date/time as the last comment.

I’ve tried $comment->comment_date, but it didn’t work for me. I can get the correct date using:

echo $trackback->comment_date

but I don’t particularly care for the output. How can I change the output format? I’d like it to display using m/d/Y h:i a, but I don’t know how.
By Joefish
on Jul 11, 2006 | Reply

Also, I’ve been testing nightly builds. TPS isn’t compatible with WP 2.1 alpha 2 (so it probably won’t be compatible with the final). Any plans to update?
By mk
on Jul 11, 2006 | Reply

Hello Joefish,
Umm.. no plans to update yet… I think I’ll wait for 2.1 beta.
By Monika
on Feb 20, 2007 | Reply

Hi
thanks a lot for this plugin.

comments_only_number doesn’t work for me, it shows nothing

regards
Monika
By mk
on Feb 20, 2007 | Reply

Hello Monika,

Previously I’ve made a serious mistake that the plugin for download is broken and so the comments_only_number() doesn’t work. Please re-download the plugin again. Sorry for your inconvenience :(.
By Monika
on Feb 20, 2007 | Reply

Hi
I’ve donwnloaded the plugin since ten minutes ago ….

I ‘m too stupid
it doesn’t work,

I activate the plugin
opened comments.php

.. and so on.....

but it doesn’t show anything, neither an error nor the numbers

is this the false place for this code?

regards and thanks for your patient

Monika
By mk
on Feb 21, 2007 | Reply

Monika:
Oops, cannot see your code, probably filtered by WordPress
If you wish to send me sample, either you could use pasteboard, or e-mail me directly. Thanks
By hpguru
on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply

Sorry, but TMC-page comments is closed.

TinyMCEcomments don’t work in my WordPress 2.3.3. See picture http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5172/tinywf7.png Why? This work good in your blog and many others but don’t work in my blog. I deaktivate plugin now, picture helps well.
Would you help me, thanks very much. Sorry bad english.