Adam Kalsey has announced the availability of his latest MT plugin SimpleComments. He explains Comments and Trackbacks are merged into a single list. Comment counts include the number of TrackBack pings, and best of all, you don’t need to learn new MT tags in order to do this.
This is excellent and exactly what I'm meant when I wrote TrackBacks are Comments are TrackBacks. Well almost. Ideally I'd like to see systems such as MT make no differentiation on the backend also. MT is still storing TrackBack pings and comments seperately in the database and thereby requiring different (though similar) template tags be utilized. Nevertheless I'll take what progress I can get.
Without any excuses for not following my own advice, I've already implemented the plugin on the TrackBack NG forum page to create a merged chronlogical list of comments and pings in both HTML and in the syndication feed.
Good work Adam.
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