Semantic-Linkbacks

Generates richer WordPress comments from linkbacks such as Webmention or classic linkback protocols like Trackback or Pingback.

The limited display for trackbacks and linkbacks is replaced by a clean full sentence, such as “Bob mentioned this article on bob.com.” If Bob’s site uses markup that the plugin can interpret, it may add his profile picture or other parts of his page to display as a full comment. It will optionally show collections of profile pictures, known as Facepiles, instead of the full setences.

Semantic Linkbacks uses Microformats 2 to get information about the linked post and it is highly extensible to also add support for other forms of markup.

Privacy and Data Collection

This plugin collects data from sites that send webmentions for the purpose of displaying richer comments on a site. This data is under the control of the site owner. It is the personal responsibility of that individual or individuals to remove any information at the request of the original content creator. Over time, we will add additional tools to assist in doing so.

Thanks to

• Pelle Wessman (@voxpelli) for his awesome WebMention test-pinger
• Ryan Barrett (@snarfed) for his feedback and pull requests
• Barnaby Walters (@barnabywalters) for his awesome mf2 parser
• David Shanske (@dshanske) for his feedback and a lot of pull requests
• (@acegiak) for the initial plugin