diff --git a/b2pingbacks.php b/b2pingbacks.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 175268eac2..0000000000
--- a/b2pingbacks.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-	<?php if (!empty($pb)) { ?>
-
-	<?php // Do not delete these lines
-	if (basename($HTTP_SERVER_VARS["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]) == "b2pingbacks.php")
-		die ("please, do not load this page directly");
-	$queryc = "SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_post_ID = $id AND comment_content LIKE '%<pingback />%' ORDER BY comment_date";
-	$resultc = mysql_query($queryc); if ($resultc) {
-	?>
-
-<!-- you can START editing here -->
-
-<h2>Pingbacks</h2>
-
-<ol id="pingbacks">
-	<?php /* this line is b2's motor, do not delete it */ $wxcvbn_pb=0; while($rowc = mysql_fetch_object($resultc)) { $wxcvbn_pb++; $commentdata = get_commentdata($rowc->comment_ID); ?>
-	
-
-<a name="pb<?php comment_ID() ?>"></a>
-	
-
-<!-- pingback -->
-<li>
-<?php comment_text() ?>
-
-<div><cite>Pingback from <a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>" title="<?php comment_author() ?>"><?php comment_author() ?></a> on <?php comment_date() ?> @ <a href="#pb<?php comment_ID(); ?>"></a><?php comment_time() ?></a></cite></div>
-</li>
-<!-- /pingback -->
-
-
-	<?php /* end of the loop, don't delete */ }
-	if (!$wxcvbn_pb) { ?>
-
-<!-- this is displayed if there are no pingbacks so far -->
-<li>No pingbacks on this post so far.</li>
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
-</ol>
-
-
-<h3><a href="javascript:history.go(-1)">Go back.</a></h3>
-
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
-
-</div>
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
diff --git a/b2pingbackspopup.php b/b2pingbackspopup.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 5bd68229c7..0000000000
--- a/b2pingbackspopup.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */
-$blog=1; include ("blog.header.php"); while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { start_b2();
-?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
-    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
-<head>
-	<title><?php echo $blogname ?> - pingbacks on '<?php the_title() ?>'</title>
-	
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
-	
-	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
-		@import url( layout2b.css );
-		body {
-			margin: 3px;
-		}
-	</style>
-
-</head>
-<body>
-<h1 id="header"><a title="<?php echo $blogname ?>"><?php echo $blogname ?></a></h1>
-<div id="contentcomments">
-
-<div class="storyContent">
-
-	<?php /* do not delete this line */ $queryc = "SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_post_ID = $id AND comment_content LIKE '%<pingback />%' ORDER BY comment_date"; $resultc = mysql_query($queryc); if ($resultc) { ?>
-
-<h2>Pingbacks</h2>
-
-<ol id="pingbacks">
-	<?php /* this line is b2's motor, do not delete it */ $wxcvbn_pb=0; while($rowc = mysql_fetch_object($resultc)) { $commentdata = get_commentdata($rowc->comment_ID); $wxcvbn_pb++; ?>
-	
-<li id="pb<?php comment_ID() ?>">
-	
-<!-- pingback -->
-<?php comment_text() ?>
-
-<div><cite>Pingback from <a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>" title="<?php comment_author() ?>"><?php comment_author() ?></a> on <?php comment_date() ?> @ <a href="pb<?php comment_ID() ?>"><?php comment_time() ?></a></cite>
-</div>
-
-<!-- /pingback -->
-
-
-	<?php /* end of the loop, don't delete */ }
-	if (!$wxcvbn_pb) { ?>
-
-<!-- this is displayed if there are no pingbacks so far -->
-<li>No Pingbacks on this post so far.</li>
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
-</ol>
-
-<h3> <a href="javascript:window.close()">Close this window</a>.</h3>
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
-
-</div>
-
-	<?php /* this is just the end of the motor - don't touch that line either :) */ } ?> 
-
-</div>
-
-
-<p class="credit"><?php timer_stop(1); ?> <cite>Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org"><strong>Wordpress</strong></a></cite></p>
-
-
-</body>
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/b2trackbackpopup.php b/b2trackbackpopup.php
deleted file mode 100644
index accf4f4851..0000000000
--- a/b2trackbackpopup.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-<?php /* Don't remove this line, it calls the b2 function files ! */
-$blog=1; include ("blog.header.php"); while($row = mysql_fetch_object($result)) { start_b2();
-?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
-    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
-<head>
-	<title><?php echo $blogname ?> - Trackbacks on "<?php the_title() ?>"</title>
-	
-	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
-	
-	<style type="text/css" media="screen">
-		@import url( layout2b.css );
-		body { margin: 3px; }
-	</style>
-	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="<?php echo $siteurl; ?>/print.css" />
-</head>
-
-<body>
-<h1 id="header"><a title="<?php echo $blogname ?>"><?php echo $blogname ?></a></h1>
-
-<div id="contentcomments">
-
-<div class="storyContent">
-
-<p>The URL to TrackBack this entry is:</p>
-<p><em><?php trackback_url() ?></em></p>
-
-
-	<?php /* do not delete this line */ $queryc = "SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_post_ID = $id AND comment_content LIKE '%<trackback />%' ORDER BY comment_date"; $resultc = mysql_query($queryc); if ($resultc) { ?>
-
-<h2>Trackbacks</h2>
-<ol id="trackbacks">
-	<?php /* this line is b2's motor, do not delete it */ $wxcvbn_tb=0; while($rowc = mysql_fetch_object($resultc)) { $commentdata = get_commentdata($rowc->comment_ID); $wxcvbn_tb++; ?>
-	
-<a name="tb<?php comment_ID() ?>"></a>
-	
-<!-- trackback -->
-	<li id="trackback-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
-	<?php comment_text() ?>
-	
-	<p><cite>Tracked on <a href="<?php comment_author_url(); ?>" title="<?php comment_author() ?>"><?php comment_author() ?></a> on <?php comment_date() ?> @ <?php comment_time() ?></cite></p>
-	</li>
-<!-- /trackback -->
-
-
-	<?php /* end of the loop, don't delete */ }
-	if (!$wxcvbn_tb) { ?>
-
-<!-- this is displayed if there are no trackbacks so far -->
-	<li>No trackbacks yet.</li>
-
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
-</ol>
-
-<div><strong><a href="javascript:window.close()">close this window</a></strong></div>
-
-	<?php /* if you delete this the sky will fall on your head */ } ?>
-
-</div>
-
-	<?php /* this is just the end of the motor - don't touch that line either :) */ } ?> 
-
-</div>
-
-<p class="credit"><?php timer_stop(1); ?> <cite>Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org"><strong>Wordpress</strong></a></cite></p>
-
-
-</body>
-</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/readme.html b/readme.html
index dbcc554b39..b8489e40db 100644
--- a/readme.html
+++ b/readme.html
@@ -597,10 +597,6 @@
             <li>height (default is 400)</li>
             <li>file name, in case you want to use a different template for comments 
               (default is b2commentspopup.php)</li>
-            <li>file name, in case you want to use a different template for TrackBacks 
-              (default is b2trackbackpopup.php)</li>
-            <li>file name, in case you want to use a different template for Pingbacks 
-              (default is b2pingbackspopup.php)</li>
           </ul>
         </div>
         <br />
