phil ringnalda

I’ll have to change the title once I find out the actual name of the plugin, but Adam Kalsey’s my hero for the day, having done the plugin that I’ve fiddled with off and on since pb first showed me that a TrackBack is just a comment that lives on someone else’s server.

SimpleComments adds an MTSimpleComments container to replace both MTComments and MTPings, returning all the comments and TrackBack pings for entry (or those that you choose with lastn=”n”), a pair of conditionals, MTSimpleCommentIfComment and MTSimpleCommentIfTrackback, so that you can use the existing MT tags depending on whether a particular comment is a local comment (MTCommentBody) or a TrackBack (MTPingExcerpt), and MTSimpleCommentCount to count the comments and pings for an entry.

To use SimpleComments, just replace your MTComments tag pair with MTSimpleComments, put MTSimpleCommentIfComment around your existing comment display code, followed by a MTSimpleCommentIfTrackback section that contains your TrackBack display code from the TrackBack template, replace your MTCommentCount with MTSimpleCommentCount, and delete the whole TrackBack count and link. Simple as that, you’ve got intermingled local comments and remote comments via TrackBack.