Title: Styling Pingbacks/Trackbacks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Styling Pingbacks/Trackbacks

 *  [Delete Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lincolnadams/)
 * (@lincolnadams)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-pingbackstrackbacks/)
 * I’ve been trying to figure out how I can distinguish pingbacks/trackbacks so 
   that they look different from regular comments. I’ve tried the suggestions found
   at: [http://www.cre8d-design.com](http://www.cre8d-design.com) but the “tutorial”
   wasn’t very intuitive and I kept getting PHP errors whenever I tried to implement
   the code. I think the best approach for me is to place an icon next to the pingback
   author that simply says “PINGBACK” or trackback in order to alert the user that
   he’s reading a pingback comment, like I’ve some WordPress blogs do. I’d also 
   like for it to include a clean direct link back to where the pingback/trackback
   originated. For the life of me, I donot understand why WordPress doesn’t do this
   automatically.
 * Note I don’t want to separate the pingbacks from comments, just make them look
   different.

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 *  Thread Starter [Delete Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lincolnadams/)
 * (@lincolnadams)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-pingbackstrackbacks/#post-424439)
 * Update: this site provided a pretty decent solution:
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/commentstyling/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/commentstyling/)
 * There’s one additional change I’d like to make: instead of the annoying […] tags
   that wrap a pingback, I’d like to replace that with a title indicating that the
   comment is a pingback and a “read more” link at the end. Is there code somewhere
   out there that i can look at and duplicate on my own site?
 *  Thread Starter [Delete Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lincolnadams/)
 * (@lincolnadams)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-pingbackstrackbacks/#post-424615)
 * Nobody huh? 🙁
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-pingbackstrackbacks/#post-424617)
 * Trackbacks: Look closely at the wp-trackbacks.php file. Making that do whatever
   you want should be fairly obvious.
 * Pingbacks: Look down around line 1200 or so of the xmlrpc.php file. That’s where
   pingbacks get handled, and the […] things get added as well.
 * As far as styling goes, just add some code to your comments loop that looks at
   $comment->comment_type. It’ll be either ‘pingback’ or ‘trackback’ for those two,
   so all you have to do is to use that to add a class to the surrounding div (or
   whatever) of each comment, then add some style info for that class to your CSS.
   Easy.
 *  Thread Starter [Delete Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lincolnadams/)
 * (@lincolnadams)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-pingbackstrackbacks/#post-424629)
 * Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it! 🙂

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## Tags

 * [pingbacks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingbacks/)
 * [Stylesheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stylesheet/)
 * [styling](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/styling/)
 * [trackbacks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/trackbacks/)

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 * Last reply from: [Delete Me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lincolnadams/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-pingbackstrackbacks/#post-424629)
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