I’ve added the Recent Comments plugin from MtDewVirus to my left sidebar. It took a little tweaking to add the code to my template (especially so that it doesn’t automatically break if I turn the plugin off), to my css file (formatting), and to the plugin itself (turned out the formatting was embedded.)

It includes, of course, the comments generated by WordPress as pingbacks when I link between my posts. This is getting more and more annoying. I think I had a decent idea about separating out self-pingbacks from other comments, but the response I got from the WordPress Support forums when I proposed it was not what I wanted to hear:

angsuman – “I often found hard-problems are not answered in this forum.”
You are welcome to assist…………

Which tells me “interesting idea, why don’t you write the code for it?” Another tempting, but time-wise, impossible, opportunity. It looks like the subject of self-pingbacks has been bandied about on the wp-hackers mailing list, but the idea of doing something about it has been shelved with a note that code is needed.

UPDATE:
With a little code tweaking, I was able to remove the WordPress pingbacks (the “comments” that WordPress puts in automatically when I link to a previous posts) from the listing of recent comments. I just added another criterion to the database search. The ease with which I did this makes it seem entirely feasible to write a plugin to handle the self-pingbacks, but where do I find the time?

Posted by Greg in My Website

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