Splitting own trackbacks from other ones

Flominator · Post by **Flominator** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:51 pm

I've just read this article about WordPress distinguishing between trackbacks send by the blog owner and other trackbacks. Own trackbacks are put in a section called updates, where "foreign" ones are put into the "normal" trackback section.

Is there any way to make s9y do that, too?

Thanks in advance,

Flo

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:28 pm

I don't read German, and I'm afraid I might have missed the point: it looks like the article claims that putting my own trackbacks first in the list helps site organization. If that's the case, yes, it could be done.

Personally, I'm not convinced that this will help site organization so much. I'd probably just highlight my internal trackbacks differently through CSS; preserving the order gives the reader an idea of the input I received through comments before embarking on my update.

If we want to add the internal trackbacks to the footer of the article, we'd need a plugin. If we want them to show as the first comments in the list, we might be able to do it with a plugin, but we might need a change to the core.

Rather than storing them in a new database, we could simply extend the current table with a column for "internal".

I don't think we've got the manpower to do it right now. Anyone who's interested is welcome to take it up, of course, and the developers will help answer questions. But everybody's busy on other stuff right now.

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:02 pm

Yeah, but this capability won't help that at all. It's more about formatting the trackbacks differently than actually handling them differently.

I was getting a trackback flood for a while, and I stopped it by only forbidding trackbacks with no user agent, or with 'trackback' as part of their user agent. I can now use internal trackbacks with no problem. (I'm not popular enough to test external trackbacks.)

Flominator · Post by **Flominator** » Thu May 15, 2008 9:43 pm

judebert wrote:Yeah, but this capability won't help that at all. It's more about formatting the trackbacks differently than actually handling them differently.

You got that right. I never thought about changing my CSS for that, but it sounds doable. Any clues where I should start?