If you are using Wordpress as your blogging platform then you must have at some point of time thought of- How can I highlight author or admin comments of  Wordpress blog.

Here is a simple way to highlight the author comments in thesis theme and any other Wordpress theme as well.

How to highlight author comments in Wordpress Thesis theme:-

Their is not much to it,just copy paste the following code in your custom.css file

/* admincomments */
.custom dl#comment_list dt.bypostauthor,children dd.comment, .custom dl#comment_list dd.bypostauthor>div {background: #c9d7e5; padding-top:20px;}

How to highlight author comments in any wordpress theme(other than thesis )

In your themes root footer open the comments.php file and find the following code

<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">

Replace this code with the code below

<li class="<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) $oddcomment = "admincomments"; echo $oddcomment; ?>"

Put this code in your style.css or custom.css  depending on theme you use.

.admincomments {
background-color: #B3FFCC !important;
}

You can change the color to your liking and according to your theme.

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If you use Categories to structure your blog , you might like to display these categories on your blog homepage and other pages. It’s a good idea to show wordpress  categories on your blog pages, since users can quickly pick up the best categories for him and browse the archive. But if you use lots of sub categories for an Example

Wordpress > Wordpress SEO > Wordpress Plugins

Here wordpress is parent category and Wordpress SEO and Wordpress plugins are sub categories. It will also show in your categories. If you have a niche wordpress blog like me, you might not mind showing your sub categories on the pages, as it will provide easy navigation for the users. But in case if you are covering lots of topics like Blogging, Wordpress, SEO, Technology and use sub categories for further categorization, you might like to disallow showing categories on your homepage.

Christopher has come up with a very useful post on hiding sub categories to display and if you are showing categories on your blog , you might like to read his article to give cleaner view on your blog.

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Earlier we talked about Wordpress post revision feature and how you can disable post revision with plugin or disable post revision with little hack. Though we have achieved the target to disable the post revision feature but still most important thing that remains there is deleting all previous version of Wordpress post revision. If you have hundred+ posts you can see lots of post revision on your blog and obviously your wordpress database size will be big. To delete previous post revision you can run this query in your sql database to delete all instance of previous auto saved blog posts.

DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = "revision";

Make sure you take the database backup before running this query. This will ensure the safety of your wordpress database. Alternatively you can use wp-optimize wordpress plugin, if you are not familiar with running sql query.

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So previously we talked about Wordpress post revision feature and revision control Wordpress plugin to disable post revision, but instead of using any plugin we can simple disable this feature by adding a small line of code in your wp-config file.

This will make sure that your blog will not save the instance of your previously edited post and thus it will not increase the size of your database.

To use this small code, you should know how to access your wordpress directory using FTP.

Now go to root of your wordpress installation and open wp-config.php file, and add this single line of code

define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false);

This will ensure that none of your post will be revised again. I find it much better than using a plugin, since my wordpress will not be over loaded with an extra plugin.

p.s : Do take a backup of your wp-config.php file, before editing your wordpress file.

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One of my Client, wanted to have a post always stick to homepage which will welcome her readers. She asked me how to  do it, so instead of telling her on IM , I believe writing here will be a much better option so that other readers can take help of it.

Wordpress has an inbuilt option to make any blog post sticky and it will stay at the top of homepage and new posts will be displayed below it.

This option can be access on the edit post option, here is a screenshot which will make it easy for you to understand.

Make sure to put a check mark in the option which says “Stick the post to the front page” this will ensure , that particular post will remain first post on your wordpress blog, until unless you uncheck that option again.

This is very useful when you want a particular post to keep showing on homepage, specially when you running a contest or running a giveaway.

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Wordpress is full of custom code which can use to get rid of lots of Wordpress plugins.

One such plugin is Random posts plugin, but those who are familiar with coding which is not tough to implement. You can show random post below posts using this custom code.

Here is Wordpress Random Posts Custom code

<ul>
  <li>
    <h2>Random Posts</h2>
    <ul>
      <?php
 $rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=5&orderby=rand');
 foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
 ?>
      <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
        <?php the_title(); ?>
        </a></li>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

Add the code in your single.php file at your desire place.

Let me know if you face any problem or have any question.

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