One way to increase visitor engagements is to reward their comments by showcasing them on your website. Additionally, you can also feature the top commenters as well, linking back to their website in the process. Here we’ll create a dedicated Page Template to display those comments and commenters in one place.

In short, this tutorial will teach you how to:

1. create a Page Template,
2. use SQL queries in your code to fetch comments with varying parameters,
3. create a section of the Page that’s only viewable by Admin,
4. add support for a comment-related plugin.

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This WordPress theme is ported from the free CSS template of the same name by Rambling Soul. It’s a dark blog theme with a custom homepage template. It supports widgets and threaded comments. There are a few other features in the theme which will be gone over below.

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I recently came across a site on Twitter called CSS Killswitch. What is it exactly? According to their site: “CSS Killswitch lets you non-destructively black out a difficult client’s website with the click of a button.”

The Code

If you try out their “two second demo” you’ll see all it basically does it make your page go completely blank. You can accomplish pretty much the same thing by placing the following bit of CSS code in your stylesheet.

* { display: none; }

If you notice anything still visible, you probably have some !important things you need to take care of as well.

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