Wordpress Tips
:Highlight Author Comments
Wordpress Tips
The head of Google’s Web Spam Team, Matt Cutts recently shared a nice little tip which helps to highlight the author comments in Wordpress. I find it a nice wordpress hack because, its sometimes very important for the owner of the blog to make his/her comments stand out from other.
The trick is simple:Check the user ids of the commenter to see if it’s the user id of the blog owner. Pretty smart, huh?! [Thanks to Matt cutts]
Steps Involved to Highlight Author Comments
1. Changing the theme to add an “authcomment†style – You will need to edit the style.css and near the bottom add the following lines:
.authcomment {
background-color: #B3FFCC !important;
}
2. Editing the comments.php file to add a little code – Go to your comments.php and find a line that should look like this:
<li class=â€<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>†id=â€comment…</li>
Change that code according to the following example:
<li class=â€<?php
/* Only use the authcomment class from style.css if the user_id is 1 (admin) */
if (1 == $comment->user_id)
$oddcomment = “authcommentâ€;
echo $oddcomment;
?>†id=â€comment…</li>
That’s all! Now you should have a distinctive color for your own comments! Remember, you can always change the colour by simply changing the colour codes in your .css file.
