I started a thread in Feature Requests and I guess that was just the wrong place for this.

When I was using Movable Type I used a plugin that would display basic information about trackbacks on the index page: the blog sending the trackback, and the name of the post linking to “this” one.

Right now I have trackbacks displaying on the combined individual-entry/comment page, but what I really want is a one-line-per-trackback display on the main index page under each post.

I don’t find anything about trackbacks here. Is there anyone who would like to work up a plugin for this?

You’re probably better off going with Lynda’s method.  It’s actually very easy.  First, just create a template where all you put is the trackback stuff you want.  Use the tags, do whatever.  Let’s pretend you put that inside the ‘weblog’ template on a page called ‘tracks’.

Now, on your index page (or whatever multi-entry page you want to show trackbacks on), put:

<?php @include(”{comment_path=weblog/tracks}”);?>

That should be inside the weblog tags and put it where you want the trackbacks to show up.  It works basically like an ‘embed’.

For whatever page you stick that on, you need to go in and change the preferences to allow php and parse on output.  (Done on the ‘template’ page)

That SHOULD do the trick.  Note- I haven’t actually tested it, but the basic idea is solid.  Try it out, if you have problems, post back.

Well, I went to the page where Lynda explains her method and it looks a little more involved than that. I tried it according to her instructions but there seems to be some knowledge about hacking PHP that I haven’t come up with.

I’ll admit, I haven’t tried the simpler way you describe. The worst that can happen is I come back and say it didn’t work.

Stand by.

When I set the template to allow PHP parsing on output, the page doesn’t load at all. There’s an additional tag mentioned on Lynda’s page that she doesn’t explain and I have no idea how to use:

<![CDATA[ ]]>

My question to Lynda was about that tag (see it here) and as I say, I haven’t heard back.

Yea, don’t sweat that stuff.  It’s because Lynda is putting it into the rss feed.  Here’s a section from the stock rss 2.0 template:

<content:encoded><![CDATA[{body}]]></content:encoded>
<dc:date>{entry_date format=”%Y-%m-%dT%H:%i:%s%Q”}</dc:date>

What she’s doing (I guess, haven’t delved into it) is inserting trackbacks or whatever into the feed.  Ignore that unless that’s what you are doing.

The logic is pretty simple- the reason comments and trackbacks don’t show on a multi-entry page is because they need a unique id number to tell them which entry to display the comments or trackbacks for.  What Lynda has cleverly done is to use the comment path to add the id number to the ‘embed’, which then tells EE which trackbacks (or comments) to pull out.  That’s really all there is to it.  You’re just basically telling EE to embed weblog/tracks/id# .

Well, since enabling PHP parsing in output means my blog won’t load (as stated above), this option won’t work for me.

The plugin route still looks best.

I take it back. I did get it working after I posted to the Bug Reports forum and Chris suggested I check my template for bad code. Found some, deleted it, solved the won’t-load problem and thus was able to make Lynda’s method work.

Whew.

Glad you got it working- debugging is always a pain.  You look at the code too long and you just can’t see the syntax error that’s sitting right there!