• In my never ending quest to find a clean way to dislay my trackback/feedback/comments, I was thinking of how best to organize it.

    Here’s my idea, and maybe some genius can figure out how to make it happen.
    🙂

    Basically, under a post you would have a tabbed section that would have the following options:

    | Post Comment | View Comments (#) | Trackbacks (?) | Pingbacks (?)

    ———————————
    Post comment – would show the standard comment form, and would be shown by default.

    View Comments – would show the existing comments and the title would show how many there are currently.

    Trackbacks – would display all trackbacks on the post. The (?) would be an explanation of what a trackback is…the default trackback screen would show the URI to trackback to and maybe a brief tutorial of how to trackback?

    Pingbacks – same as trackbacks, but with, yep, pingbacks instead.
    ———————————

    The plugin itself could be ajax or just some clever CSS divs that would display the appropriate content onclick (thinking about Alex Kings ‘Share It’ as an example…).

    I don’t know how many people would be interested in something like this, but for me, someone who is very conservative about layout and hates clutter, it would be a godsend.

    Any thoughts, suggestions or volunteers?
    🙂

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  • Thread Starter BabyGotMaccom

    (@babygotmaccom)

    Well, I already knew it *could* be done, and if I had the skills/time I would gladly use the resources above to figure it out.

    I was hoping that someone with existing plugin coding knowledge could look at the idea and think, ‘hey, I could knock that idea out of the park!’, leading to their fame and fortune and internet sainthood.

    Thread Starter BabyGotMaccom

    (@babygotmaccom)

    In case my explanation doesn’t make sense, here’s a quickie mockup:
    http://babygotmac.com/images/pluginidea.png

    BabyGot.. Certainly sounds doable. I may look into this myself as I was wanting some way to seperate them out neatly myself & you appear to have hit the spot.

    Only question is that it seems more of a part-theme than plugin?

    Don’t suppose that matters 🙂

    Thread Starter BabyGotMaccom

    (@babygotmaccom)

    Probably theme-centric, on second thought. But as a plugin maybe it allows you to choose which tabs to show and how to format, for instance ‘time/name/subject’ or ‘/time/name/subject/excerpt’ or ‘time/name/subject/full post’…

    Thanks for the interest…please keep me in the loop if you decide to work on it. I’ll be your guinea pig.
    🙂

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