'Recent Comments' widget, pingbacks may not be shown

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  smnres · Member · Oct 16, 2013 at 1:56 pm

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  At the ‘Recent Comments’ widget, pingbacks are shown as comments in wordpress websites. Pingbacks rely don’t mean a true comment for a post to many and obscure the value of the ‘Recent Comments’ widget, I think.
  Hence, I like to suggest you to include an option in this widget, so that we can exclude pingbanks display in the Recent Comments widget.

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 17, 2013 at 8:01 pm

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  Good idea! I’m all for it.

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  deliciousbydre · Member · Oct 31, 2013 at 2:21 pm

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  i agree!!! i was just searching for a widget to take care of that when i stumbled upon your post!! :)

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  deliciousbydre · Member · Oct 31, 2013 at 2:24 pm

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  here’s a link to a code i found to take care of it for now…
  he explains exactly where & how to paste it.
  http://ronangelo.com/remove-pingbacks-on-recent-comments-widget/

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  lettergrade · Member · Oct 31, 2013 at 2:28 pm

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  Thanks, deliciousbydre, but that solution only applies to self-hosted wordpress.org installs, where users have access to their functions.php file. The users on these boards are hosted wordpress.com users. Here’s some info on the difference: .com and .org

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  smnres · Member · Oct 31, 2013 at 2:46 pm

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  Thanks everyone for supporting the issue.
  We need to wait for the wordpress team to act on this issue.
  The ping backs compromise the value of ‘Recent Comments’ widget.
  Rather another widget listing the pingbacks only will be more helpful I think.