I have seen many blogs where the author’s comments are shown in a specific way. This makes sense if you – as the author – are answering specific questions. I have seen this on many plugin sites. Marking your comments makes it easier for your visitors to see important answers.
Inspired by the “Author Highlight” plugin for wordpress, I put some simple code into the loop of my comments.php which shows a “This is a comment by the weblog author” note below the date and time of the post:
<?php if(strcasecmp($comment->comment_author_email, 'youraddress@yourhost') == 0)
{
echo "<span style='color:blue; font-weight:bold'>This is a comment from the weblog author.</span>";
}
?>
[Update from 2008-06-24]
Matt Cutts actually describes a nicer different method by identifying the author’s ID in this post. [Update] That only works if you are logged in while commenting – otherwise, the user_id is “0″ and the highlighting won’t show.
Ok, here it is. I have slightly changed the CSS, so that by now, you should see a thick border and a light yellow as background color, whereas comments from visitors have a thin border and either white or grey as background color.
http://www.ponderplace.com stephen
thanks dude
http://www.writely.org Article
It is a great way and really eye catching though… I am wondering if it is compitable with WP 2.7 Beta as well. Thanks alot, regards
How To Highlight A Comment From The Author
May 17th, 2007 | View Comments
I have seen many blogs where the author’s comments are shown in a specific way. This makes sense if you – as the author – are answering specific questions. I have seen this on many plugin sites. Marking your comments makes it easier for your visitors to see important answers.
Inspired by the “Author Highlight” plugin for wordpress, I put some simple code into the loop of my comments.php which shows a “This is a comment by the weblog author” note below the date and time of the post:
<?php if(strcasecmp($comment->comment_author_email, 'youraddress@yourhost') == 0) { echo "<span style='color:blue; font-weight:bold'>This is a comment from the weblog author.</span>"; } ?>[Update from 2008-06-24]
Matt Cutts actually describes a nicer different method by identifying the author’s ID in this post. [Update] That only works if you are logged in while commenting – otherwise, the user_id is “0″ and the highlighting won’t show.
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