wp-TrackbackPopup 1.0

In the default Word­Press theme (and many others), a track­back link is included in each post’s meta data. Knowl­edge­able users right-​click on the link and copy the link loca­tion. But the vast major­ity of users click the link, only to be redi­rected back to the very page they were on. All they want is to be able to copy the link, but the stan­dard imple­men­ta­tion does not pro­vide the expected result.

wp-​TrackbackPopup resolves this issue. It uses unob­tru­sive JavaScript to cause a popup when some­one clicks the track­back link. The popup pro­vides a text ver­sion of the track­back url for easy copy­ing and pasting.

A screen­shot of the wp-​TrackbackPopup Admin inter­face: admin panel for wp-TrackbackPopup
The stan­dard format track­back popup window: standard format trackback popup window
An exam­ple of a custom for­mat­ted popup window: a custom formatted trackback popup window

Click the “trackback url” link below for an exam­ple of how this plugin works.

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