And yet, and yet, WP remains a cornucopia of delights!

WP Plugins … a veritable cornucopia of delights! Yesterday (day before?) I bookmarked sites/plugins dealing with categories/tags and heh ended up with over a dozen.

FWIW my “stealth project” is so ?what? novel, it approaches “unstructured information” along such a different vector (It’s all a matter of taxonomy, ontology, and cognitive schema, ehh whot? *grin*) That none (read 0.00) meet my need. In fact it looks like I might need to hack core code … mebbe.

So: thanks kindly for your list of pointers.

p.s. perhaps we should chat about co-blogging? I think this morning I happened onto a very interesting / relevant niche.
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cheers

Hello Ben,

Thanks for dropping by, and as you can see I’m still slacking off on the comment issue. But, your friendly ‘ping’ has resulted in my doing a bit of searching.

I think the plugin in question, to seperate comments from trackbacks is this one:
BM-TrackPing
It seems a lot more streamlined than the one I remember seeing a year or so ago. I will try this out ASAP, as soon as I figure out whether it will play well with my comment threading plugin.

In case there are others reading this who are interested in similar and related solutions, here are some interesting comment plugins:

Comment Sorter — As the name says, a complex sorting solution, but also lets you completely disable the display of Trackbacks if you want to get drastic.

Comment Highlighter — Allows you to apply custom CSS classes to specific types of comments, including those of the author of the blog.

Sexy Comments — A complex suite of comment functions. Includes everything from a forum-like look, to highlighting, to threaded commenting.

Thanks for prompting the research into these solutions, Ben. Hopefully the comment section on this blog should be getting a lot cleaner soon.

Thanks again,
Samir

Hello Samir -

I’m certain I’ve seen a plugin that separates trackbacks from comments. Not sure that it will work with WP2.5 (global variables, you know) but I’m positive it worked with 2.3

Let me know if you can’t locate it and I’ll hunt it down.

best
ben

Truth be told, the reengineering of the trackback and comment layout has been on my todo list almost from the first day I patched together this template from various bits of code. Unfortunately, being the pathological control freak that I can be, I decided none of the available solutions looked quite the way I wanted. “I’ll make one myself!”, was the proclaimation I made that day, and one that I make often in various circumstances.

As you can guess, that hasn’t yet come to pass. A shame, I know, and an inconvenience on the eyes of my readers, but this site is as much my playground as my laboratory. I’ve come to accept that some things will take their time, and some things might languish until I get to them. But get to them I will, and in the process I will hopefully learn and share what I learn.

So, thank you for your thoughts and your patience with the less than optimal signal/noise ratio. When I do get around to tackling this issue, I’ll be sure to wave in your direction to get your feedback on what I come up with. You obviously care about such matters, and passionate and educated opinions are so hard to come by these days.

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Samir

I find the stream of track-backs merely noise? *shrug* One man’s voice, heard.

I’m glad enough to leave that just there, and wish you well.

But know that readers don’t see this 1 by 1, as do you; readers are given the entire stream at once. So: I suggest your signal/noise ratio is sadly low.

cheers
ben

As far as looking at the comments, I obviously do, considering I spotted this one and I have replied to all the other real ones above.

Doesn’t leave the impression that you’ve got things under control.

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