Recent comments not showing trackbacks

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  dutecnic · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 7:38 pm

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  Hello all.

  I use internal links a lot on my posts and once a post is published, generally it comes up with lots of trackbacks.

  Although I want them published on each post, I don´t want to show them on the “Recent commments” widget, because they are not “comments” and this takes lot of space from the “real” comments…

  How can I do that?

  Thank you,

  Eduardo.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  dutecnic · Member · Feb 24, 2014 at 7:39 pm

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  Just to confirm, I still want to use trackbacks, I just don´t want them to be shown on “Recent Comments” widget…

  Thanks again.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 27, 2014 at 5:18 pm

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  Hey Eduardo,

  Are you referring to Pingbacks described here?

  Pingbacks

  If so, I was able to create a pingback on a test blog, and the pingback did not appear in the Recent Comments widget. Here’s a snapshot of my test:

  

  Can you let me know if this is what you’re referring to (pingbacks)?

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  dutecnic · Member · Feb 27, 2014 at 6:37 pm

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  Sorry, I am refererring when a have a post A and on the post B, I link something from the post A.

  Example: “as we could see on post A…”

  This generates am intenal trackback that appears on the recent comments widget…

  Thanks,

  Eduardo.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Feb 27, 2014 at 8:44 pm

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  Hey Eduardo

  That’s my mistake. The pingback did appear in my recent comments widget. It just took a few minutes so I didn’t see it before replying.

  Currently, it isn’t possible to remove pingbacks from your Recent Comments widget as pingback are effectively a type of comment. However, if you would like, you can still link to your blog posts but disable self-pings following the instructions here:

  Pingbacks

  We’ve also recently added some additional controls to the widget settings. You can now control whether the widget displays comments from posts, page, attachment pages, or a combination of all three as shown here:

  http://d.pr/i/TfX2

  I hope that helps!

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  dutecnic · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 12:45 am

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  Thanks @jeremeylduvall for the tips and great to know that now it shows comments from media (always wanted that) and pages.

  I don’t want to stop using pingbacks / trackbacks, I just didn’t want them to be shown on the widget, it does not add value there in my opinion, but on the related posts, for sure!

  Thanks again anyway.

  Eduardo.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 1:35 pm

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  Not a problem Eduardo. I apologize I couldn’t be of more help!

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  dutecnic · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 1:45 pm

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  I appreciate, thanks @jeremeylduvall!