Trackbacks Woes

When I made the Feed Comments Number (awful name, I know) WP-Plugin, all sorts of sites picked up a link to my blog from “Newest WordPress Plugins” feeds, each of which creating a trackback comment. I didn’t want to turn trackbacks off, because I’d like to know when something like that happens (unless it gets insane and I get like hundreds of them for a post … which is highly unlikely), so I searched for a plugin to sort them out of the regular comments list. That turned up nothing that would work properly so I did it myself.
Now my theme will show the comments first, then a link showing how many trackback/pings are on that post that, when clicked, will display (un-hide) the list of trackback/pings.

For the interested, the code for the comments page (well, the important stuff) is shown below.

<ol>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php if(get_comment_type() == 'comment') { ?>
        
        <li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?> item" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
        <div class="commentmetadata">
        <?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 48 ); ?>
        <strong><?php comment_author_link() ?></strong><br />
        <small><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('l, F j') ?> <?php comment_time() ?></a>                            
        </div>
        <div class="comment-body"><?php comment_text() ?></div>
        </li>

<?php
$oddcomment = ('alt' == $oddcomment) ? '' : 'alt';
}
else {
        $num_trackbacks++;
        $trackbacks[] = $comment;
}

endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

</ol>
        
<?php if(isset($num_trackbacks) && $num_trackbacks > 0) { ?>
<p class="aligncenter"><a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="
var el=document.getElementById('trackbacks');
if(el.style.display=='block') {
        el.style.display='none';
}
else {
        el.style.display='block';
}
" id="showTrackbacks"><?php echo $num_trackbacks; ?> Trackbacks/Pings Not Shown.</a></p>
<ol id="trackbacks">
<?php foreach($trackbacks as $comment) { 
        $oddcomment = ('alt' == $oddcomment) ? '' : 'alt'; ?>

        <li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?> item" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
        <div class="commentmetadata">
        <strong><?php comment_author_link() ?></strong><br />
        <small><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('l, F j') ?> <?php comment_time()
        </div>
        <div class="comment-body"><?php comment_text() ?></div>
        </li>

<?php } ?>
</ol>
<?php } ?>