When it comes to WordPress, there are a lot of amazing themes that are available for anyone to download and use without any coding knowledge.   Unfortunately, many of these same themes for some reason don’t come with the trackbacks separated from the comments.   A few poorly placed trackbacks can interrupt the flow of a conversation in the comments, so it is definitely a big theme improvement to move filter them out and display them below the comments.

If your theme mixes the two and you’re looking for an easy way to separate them on your theme, Hack WordPress has you covered.  Included are a few easy steps that you can follow to separate them on your theme.    If you decide to go through with this, I would first recommend you backup your comments.php file just in case something goes wrong, so you can start over at the beginning and try again.