Semantic Linkbacks
Semantic Linkbacks is a WordPress plugin that upgrades the presentation of linkback notifications (like Trackback, Pingback, or Webmention*) from the ugly default pingback presentation of "[…] random text excerpt […]" to a much more meaningful and user-friendly display as comments, reposts, likes, and favorites, detected using microformats2 markup from the source of the linkback.
For explicit in-reply-to interactions, the plugin also changes the WordPress comment type from "webmention" to "comment". Otherwise, it creates human readable whole sentences like "Alice liked this article on alice.example.com." with hyperlinks to the source author and permalink.
- Repository: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-semantic-linkbacks
- WordPress plugin directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/semantic-linkbacks/
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Comment Type Indicator
For in-reply-to interactions, the plugin adds a "type" indicator in the comment metadata for the specific type of interaction:
- reply
- repost
- like
- favorite
- rsvp
- tag
- mention - Defaults to mention if another type cannot be determined, e.g. "Alice mentioned this article on alice.example.com."
This "type" indicator enables further interaction-specific presentation customization, such as showing likes/favorites and/or reposts as a facepile.
Configuration
No configurable options at this time.
Extensions
If you want to write your own parser for additional markup(such RDFa or Schema.org) you have to hook up the `semantic_linkbacks_commentdata` filter and update the array-fields.
The comment-array is a WordPress Comment with some extra-fields.
All fields beginning with _ like:
- `$commentdata['_canonical']` for the canonical source url
- `$commentdata['_type']` for the comment type. The plugin currently supports the following types: `mention`(default), `reply`, `repost`, `lik e`, `favorite`, 'tag', rsvp:yes, rsvp:no, rsvp:maybe, rsvp:invited, rsvp:tracking.
- `$commentdata['_avatar']` for the author avatar
...are saved as comment metadata.
Semantic Comments
The Semantic Comments plugin is an attempt by 
David Shanske to use the type indicator of the Semantic Linkbacks plugin to display mentions as a facepile.
Related Plugins
Webmention Plugin
*WordPress supports Pingback and Trackback by default; for Webmention support, you must install the separate Webmention Plugin which is very nicely complementary to the Semantic Linkbacks plugin.
