In WordPress, there are three ways to respond to a post: you can leave a comment, leave a trackback, or just link to the post to create a pingback. When displaying all of the responses to your posts, it’s a good idea to separate the comments from the pingbacks and trackbacks. Uninterrupted comment threads are a pleasure to read, as are well-styled lists of pingbacks. This is an excellent way to improve the usability, organization, and stylishness of your comment areas.

Just a very quick tip but nonetheless an important one. Many of you will be using any number of plugins or the database query that’s been doing the rounds recently to display your most popular posts. That code/plugin is no longer needed as WordPress’ query_posts can now display your most commented posts.

One of the features I love in Wordpress 2.7 is the ability to have threaded (nested) comments up to 10 levels deep. While viewing comments on this – or any Wordpress 2.7-powered – site, you’ll notice a Reply button (assuming nested discussions are enabled). Clicking that will enable you to reply directly to that comment, keeping discussions in context.

When someone comments on your site, cookies with the information the entered are saved to their computers. WordPress makes it easy to access that information. In fact, in your comments.php template they are ready-to-go PHP variables you can spit out anywhere you’d like.

If you simply disable HTML from your WordPress comments, it can prevent a lot of SPAM. In this quick tip we will show you how to disable HTML tags in your WordPress comments.

This is a nice feed offering, but many people use the Subscribe to Comments plugin and find the individual-post feeds to be unnecessary. In this situation, it is easy enough to remove all comment-feed links from the theme-template files, but even after the physical links are removed, WordPress will continue to generate links in the section of your pages.

Wordpress 2.7 introduced a simplified way of listing comments with a new function called wp_list_comments() for use in a theme’s comments.php. This automatically takes care of the display of the author, date, avatar, comment text etc, rather than the more complex way used for older versions of Wordpress. This is all fine and dandy, but actually makes customising the output of the comments – ie what exactly is displayed – slightly more complex.

In this article we will show you how you can display the correct comment count through a small snippet which will filter out trackbacks and pings and only display the actual comment count to your users.

In this article we will show you how you can separate trackbacks from comments in WordPress. This hack will only work for version 2.7+

In blog posts that generate high amount of discussion, it often becomes hard for users to track the author’s comment. Specially when the discussion is heated, it is very interesting to see author’s thoughts. In this tutorial we will share one of the easiest and simplest way to highlight author’s comments in WordPress.