My site uses the GraffitiCMS blog extensions plug-in.  In the past few days, I've noticed a discrepancy between the Comment Count and the actual number of comments for my posts.  Upon investigation,  I discovered that the Comment Count in graffiti includes trackbacks/pingbacks.  I also discovered that if I deleted these trackbacks from the Graffiti Admin, the count did not change.  I think this may be a bug, but I'm welcome to correction if I'm wrong.

I decided that for now, I'd workaround it by including the trackback data in my post.view for my theme.  I did so by writing out the trackbacks directly beneath the Comment Count header in my post.view file as follows:

 <!--trackbacks first -->
  <ul class="commentlist">
    <!--Loop through trackbacks -->
    #foreach($trackback in $trackbacks)
    #beforeall
    <li>
    #each
    <div class="commentname">
      <cite>
        <!--Insert Trackback Title & Link -->
        <a href="$trackback.WebSite" title="$trackback.Name">
            Trackback: $trackback.Name
        </a>
      </cite>
      <br>
      <!-- insert date/time posted -->
      <small class="commentmetadata">
        Posted on  $trackback.Published.ToString("M.dd.yyyy")
        at $trackback.Published.ToString("h:mm tt")
      </small>
     </div>
   
    #afterall
    </li>
    #end <!-- end loop -->
  </ul>
  <!-- end trackbacks -->

I then modified the Comments header to say "Comments And Trackbacks" so the total count will match the items posted.  Now I can give back some link love to those who linkback/trackback to me, as well as ease confusion caused by the comment count not matching the listed comments