Inline Trackback Display
Here’s a nice Movable Type template trick originally posted at Wizbang. Show your posts’ trackbacks inline with your posts. Why do this? Well it shows readers who is linking to your post, plus it provides Ecosystem and Technorati links to the sites that send you trackbacks.
This technique is now used at a number of popular sites. Amish Tech Support, Outside The Beltway, Electric Venom, Wizbang, and a long list of other sites. Visit any of these sites to see the code in action.
Installation
Place the code below at the end of your Posted By line, replacing whatever is listed between the <MTEntryIfAllowPings> and </MTEntryIfAllowPings>. Use the code in your Main Index, Date, Category, and Individual Archive templates. Note that the lastn=”15″ can be changed to whatever you like.
August 10th, 2003 at 10:21 pm
I’ve got the first of a few posts up at ScriptyGoddess, thanks to ScriptyGoddess Jeniffer. Nothing you haven’t seen here already (Inline Trackbacks), but still it’s kind of cool. I’ll be sending more posts their way, and they should be…
August 14th, 2003 at 10:07 pm
I’m sure you’ve seen this, but just in case … Kalsey’s simple comments allow you show trackbacks inline with comments. I really like the way those two things integrate. It eliminates the need to have a comments and a trackback pop-up.
August 27th, 2003 at 12:48 am
I stumbled across the code for inline trackbacks at scriptygoddess. How fun is this?! Okay it’s not such a huge deal since I don’t get pinged much, but it’s kinda neat. And it made me totally forget what I was…
August 27th, 2003 at 4:08 am
MT did a poor job of integrating trackbacks. I’ve made some changes that push them up the focus a little. They will now appear in the main and archive templates and in the comments sections. I hope everyone finds this useful in one way or another
August 27th, 2003 at 8:47 am
Good stuff here (You know you want to click it, so just click it!) Erica just set up inline trackbacks, so I figured I’d give it a testdrive. And while over at Scripty-Goodess, I found my all time favorite script, that I use on my blog, and one I think…
September 2nd, 2003 at 12:06 pm
I was flipping thru the scriptygoddess and came across this nifty little Inline Trackback Display… And I hope I did the trackback right… :)…
September 2nd, 2003 at 12:06 pm
I was flipping thru the scriptygoddess and came across this nifty little Inline Trackback Display… And I hope I did the trackback right… :)…
October 27th, 2003 at 5:48 pm
I have entered the inline trackback hack but it opens in a new window.
I also have a javescript on site to open pages in new windows. Is this why the inline does not work? It this is the problem is there an additional hack to maintain my JS script and still have inline hack functional?
Thanx in advance Marc
December 21st, 2003 at 11:39 am
Marc, I have similar open in new window code at my site that doesn’t have this problem.
Here’s my code.
<script language=”JavaScript”>
function targetLinks(boNew) {
if (boNew)
where = “_blank”;
else
where = “_self”;
for (var i=0; i
January 22nd, 2004 at 6:26 pm
Thanks to scriptygoddess (and Kevin at Wizbang) I have my trackbacks inline in the individual post pages. I had been thinking about it for a while, but the blurb on the page that said that this will cause the trackbacks…
April 29th, 2004 at 11:55 pm
[Edited to add my apologies if I pinged your entry…
April 29th, 2004 at 11:57 pm
[Edited to add my apologies if I pinged your entry…
July 19th, 2004 at 4:29 pm
Finally got around to hacking in inline trackbacks. Found at ScriptyGoddess, via a long search through the OTB archives….