Comments on: Highlight Author Comments in WordPress, The Easier Right Way

By: Antony

Antony — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:45:11 +0000

Hi i’m using the in my callback comments function. But when I view the source code there is no bypostauthor, i’m a little confused as to why not. Am I missing something?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:17:02 +0000

Thanks! i was looking the whole day for this! because all the other normal suggestions didnt work, Do youy know how i can put the commentors avatar, name & date postes outside the normal comments div? like you see on some blogs with a arrow ponted to the avatar.

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:36:34 +0000

It highlights the admin’s comments if the admin is the one who wrote a post. The “bypostauthor” class which I specifically went over in this post is used to style the author’s comments.

By: Aj

Aj — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:26:04 +0000

The comment class functions is freaking amazing. A must for any WP Theme. Easy to follow vid, great job.

By: Santiago

Santiago — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:46:19 +0000

But this highlights Admin comments,
I have a multi author blog,
And i want to highlight their comments on their post.
How can i do that?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:48:46 +0000

For custom comments in the latest (2.9) WP here's a little tutorial using a custom callback that adds the user name to the various comment classes. Allows styling with background images and highlighting of any specified logged-in user. Best!

By: KTibaijuka

KTibaijuka — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:39:10 +0000

This was brilliant.

I prefer the screencasts. I was searching all over the place for this tutorial that explains it bit by bit.

Thanks!

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:30:35 +0000

Yeah true, I don’t do it here because I think my Gravatar is pretty recognizable in the comments here.

Using wp_list_comments + comment_class is the way to do it though. It makes it so much simpler to just style the .bypostauthor class that’s already there.

By: Vladimir Hristov

Vladimir Hristov — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:23:21 +0000

Hey thanks I will try this tonight. It really looks a lot better to have the author’s comments somehow easily distinguished.