How to Display Comments and Trackbacks Separately

If you’ve observed your WordPress comments for each of your blog posts, sometimes you see comments, and others are trackbacks. Trackbacks are links back from another post, on another website. If another blogger mentions your post, and links to it, then you will see this. With some themes, you can disable showing this.

However, if you like to keep them, but keep them separate from the comments, here’s how to do it.

How to Display Comments and Trackbacks Separately

1. Find the comments.php file of your theme.

2. Open the comments.php file and find the following code:

foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
    // Comments are displayed here       	 
endforeach;

3. Replace it with the following code:

<ul class="commentlist">
    <?php //Displays comments only
	foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
       	<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
       	<?php if($comment_type == 'comment') { ?>
	    <li>//Comment code goes here</li>
	<?php } 
    endforeach; 
</ul>

<ul>
    <?php //Displays trackbacks only
	foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
       	<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
       	<?php if($comment_type != 'comment') { ?>
	    <li><?php comment_author_link() ?></li>
	<?php } 
    endforeach; 
</ul>

You can style these as needed.