How To Highlight Author Comments In Wordpress

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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