Wordpress Plugin: Nicer trackbacks

January 3, 2006

I thought I’d share a little plugin I’ve been using that I recently wrote, because I wasn’t happy with the default display of trackbacks in Wordpress. If you have any problems, please let me know.

This plugin changes the display of trackbacks from:

[...] Trackback text [...]

to something a little more readable - I have it producing:

Trackback text …

but you could change the plugin code to suit your tastes, just change $pre and $post to what you’d like to appear before and after trackbacks.

Download
http://www.cre8d-design.com/code/rvc_trackback.txt

Installation
Rename the file to rvc_trackback.php
Drop the file rvc_trackback.php into /wp-content/plugins/
Activate the plugin in the Plugin Management

Changes
3 Jan 06: Version 1

See also
Comments

  1. Im gonna try it one of these days!

    — redstar, January 4, 2006

  2. Thanks for the plugin ;-) Gonna install it right now !

    — Pem, January 5, 2006

  3. Nicer Trackbacks，让你的Trackback显示内容更加清晰，其实就是在

    — Blogging Pro China, January 7, 2006

  4. I’ve been wanting to change the way trackbacks appear. But laziness got the better of me. Thanks to you I can easily do it now! :D

    — Leon, January 11, 2006

  5. [...] Distinguish Trackbacks - Wordpress mixes these all up and sometimes it can be rather confusing if commenters are discussing a post to be “interrupted” by a trackback. Create a different style for your trackbacks to help reduce the lack of flow. [...]

    — Improving the readability of large numbers of comments — cre8d design blog, January 28, 2006

  6. [...] This post follows on from my nicer trackbacks plugin and post on improving comment section readability. [...]

    — Improving Trackback display — cre8d design blog, January 30, 2006

  7. [...] Em tempo: instalei também o Wordpress Plugin: Nicer trackbacks para dar uma melhorada na aparência dos que não são comentários reais, mas trackbacks, ou seja, referências que são feitas em outros blogs aos artigos daqui. [...]

    — O Blogue do Janio » Comentários aninhados, January 31, 2006

  8. [...] 1. Nice Related Post Plugin We all love and use the Related Post Plugin and now its been made a bit better with this tweak. What this tweak does is give a bit more options to your output. Now you can list the related post and have commas and the word ‘and’ before the last one to make the output a bit more reader friendly. via somefoolwitha.com. 2. Nicer Trackbacks What this does is change the look of your trackbacks. Instead of having your trackbacks look like this “[…] Trackback link […]” they come out looking “Trackback link” ‘eh. Pretty nice touch to any WordPress website in my opinion. Also, you should look into fixing the output of your trackback display by changing the style they come out in, and seperating them. All thanks to cre8d. [...]

    — Better WordPress Plugins at fybix.net …it could be worse…, September 1, 2006