Thanks to Otto for this great post on the heads up on the new comment system for WordPress 2.7. After I read this I decided to get ahead of the curve and switch my Techozoic theme over to the new threaded commenting. I decided to take it a little further and separate pings and trackbacks from regular comments. At first this wasn’t working but after a quick email to the wp-testers list Ryan whipped up a fix for it. Anyway I figured I would explain how I did this. I continue below.