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highlight blog author in comments

Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007 um 12:52 Uhr Christian

entry written in English, because of the wider audience.

I recently saw blogs in which comments written by the blog author are highlighted, e.g. http://blog.us.playstation.com. Cool feature, eh? It’s easy to realize that in your own WordPress blog. Just change the template comments.php a bit.

Let’s say you have such a line in your comments.php:

<li id="comment-<?php echo $commentcount ?>" class="< ?php comment_type('comment','trackback','pingback');">
</li>

(example: blix theme)

Then you have to add the following to the class entry:

if (!empty($comment->user_id)) echo ' comment-highlight';

In this variant, all registered user are highlighted.

You may just want to highlight the real author of the entry:

if ( (!empty($comment->user_id) && $comment->comment_author_email == get_the_author_email() ) echo ' comment-highlight';

You could also think of playing around with the user level to devide users even more.

If you don’t have a class statement, you’ll have to add it. For example:

<li id="comment-<?php echo $commentcount ?>" if (!empty($comment->user_id)) echo 'class=\"comment-highlight\"'; ?>">
</li>

The finished line could look like this:

<li id="comment-<?php echo $commentcount ?>" class="< ?php comment_type('comment','trackback','pingback'); if (!empty($comment->user_id)) echo ' comment-highlight'; ?>">
</li>

after you modified the comments.php, you should add a fitting style to your css file depending on your template. I use the following:

.comment-highlight {
  border-bottom: #A3C159 solid 1px;
  border-top: #A3C159 solid 1px;
  background: #FFFFF0;
  }

A border and a changed background looks nice in my opinion and don’t emphasize the entry to much.

Have fun.

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