Displaying Received TrackBack Pings

As you can imagine, accepting TrackBack pings isn't worth much unless your site is capable of displaying the information you receive. Fortunately, the default Movable Type templates come with this capability built in.

Similar to the Comment Listing template that we worked with back when we were doing pop-up comments, most of the interesting stuff happens in the TrackBack Listing template, so let's start there.

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Click the Templates button in the administration menu to bring up the List Templates screen.
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Scroll down to the Miscellaneous Templates section and click the Edit button next to the TrackBack Listing Template label (the Edit button should be just after the comment templates).
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Scroll the template ...

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