Comments on: HowTo: Styling Author Comments With Wordpress 2.7+

By: Eve @ Letters to Breathe

Eve @ Letters to Breathe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:38:09 +0000

well- had I found this post about two hours ago I would be much happier!

Everything I found prior to this had me changing the function file and all sorts of work- all I wanted was a different background when I replied!

THANK YOU!!!!

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:18:17 +0000

@Enci

thanks so much, had the same problem!
btw great site (love the design!)

By: Maggie

Maggie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:07:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing WP codes. It was very helpful.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:46:54 +0000

Found your site by accident. Great work my friend

By: Enci

Enci — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:14:47 +0000

@SHADI

.bypostauthor { background-color: #E7F8FB !important; }

By: Angeline Ray

Angeline Ray — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:06:48 +0000

Nice and simple explanation.Thanks for sharing.

By: krema

krema — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:21:18 +0000

Hi Justin, when using wp_list_comments you can just grab the div in which the date is packed by Wordpress and position it somehow with position: absolute in your css. Wordpress assigns a class of “commentmetadata” and also “comment-meta” to the date div. But you can’t access the markup directly to change the order cause Wordpress generates this automatically.

You would have to use the old comments.php code or use a custom callback function with wp_list_comments to have more control over the markup.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:00:09 +0000

I see your comments do this too. Is there any way to move the date up above the name?

By: Will

Will — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:51:09 +0000

ok fine, this is what i was trying to say:

http://pastebin.com/f14377a3c

By: Will

Will — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:48:37 +0000

I sill prefer:

id="comment-">

By: Shadi

Shadi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:08:59 +0000

I tried adding the li.bypostauthor { background: #c2c2c2; } but nothing happens it still doesnt work

By: Harfleri

Harfleri — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:39:10 +0000

thanks for this info…

By: mesonto

mesonto — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:46:03 +0000

Krema, I guess that is my point I basically have to copy what was already done in wp_list_comments (and other ‘loopy’ functions) and subtly change their code. I think in so many ways v2.7 is homogenizing the designs. People will start to use the default ‘function A’ or ‘function B’ tools because customizing will become much more time intensive. I for one do not know which road I will go down. As a postscript I already had to semi rewrite the ‘more…’ function on ‘the_content’ function. A complete pain in the *ss. (wordpress is free however and the functionality is there)

By: krema

krema — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:13:14 +0000

Hi mesonto, well the simplicity of wp_list_comments is for the prize of loosing the ability for quick customization. In your case you would have to define a callback function in your template functions.php file where you can customize the display of the comments just like you've done it in the pre-2.7 comments.php. You just have to define the callback function in wp_list_comments like so: There's a good example on the Codex page of wp_list_comments which should help you get it running.

By: mesonto

mesonto — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:44:00 +0000

Great article, but I have one question. In the old commenting system you could manipulate the order of the parts to the comment. But in WP2.7 they seemingly have taken that ability away from me or at least made it too complicated. Question: how about an example of placing the ‘author’ after the ‘date and time’. Or do I just adjust each of their margins in CSS one – and one + to changing the order?