Comments on: Exclude Trackbacks from Recent Comments Listing

By: Jack Harten

Jack Harten — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:56:41 +0000

Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I’m more of a visual learner,I found that to be more helpful well let me know how it turns out. This is good…thanks for sharing

By: JamesD

JamesD — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:56:22 +0000

Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:42:13 +0000

Yeah, I think that's what they thought when they made the SQL syntax... On the SQL page from the w3schools website "<>" is defined as the "not equal" operator.

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:02:39 +0000

I think I get it. So does mysql interpret <> as “less than or greater than a value” which works out to the same as “not equal” (!=)?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:49:48 +0000

@Ray Fowler: Yes... I just tested this out, mysql accepts both <> and !=.

I used <> to keep it consistent with other queries they had in "FreePress Recent Comments Widget"... That's what they were using.

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:19:46 +0000

Hmmm, I noticed in your code example, you have

AND user_id  <> '1'

instead of

AND user_id !='1'

I think that should be an = rather than an <>.

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:14:56 +0000

Very cool! I am glad I was able to help back.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:28:41 +0000

@Ray Fowler: And I did :) no more will my own comments show up in the footer.

Thanks.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:12:35 +0000

@Ray Fowler: You're welcome. For some reason your comment ended up in spam.

And you've got an interesting point about not listing your own comments. I might use that myself.

By: Ray Fowler

Ray Fowler — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:35:49 +0000

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. I am using WordPress 2.7 and the built in Recent Comments Widget. I was getting trackbacks and pingbacks in my sidebar, but I added your code to wp-includes/widgets.php and now they are filtered out perfectly. By the way, I also added this piece of code which filters out my own comments from the sidebar. That way when I reply to a whole bunch of comments, I am not the only one showing up in the sidebar. Besides, I would rather highlight my guests rather than myself. Here is the code: Changed:

$wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved='1'

to:

$wpdb->comments WHERE comment_approved='1' and user_id !='1'

Thanks again! Ray