Comments on: Comment Highlighting (based on author)

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 02:59:54 +0000

You might want to check out my site, I used this script to do some pretty cool stuff.. I think what you asking for.

http://www.chrisvschris.com

By: Marya

Marya — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:36:32 +0000

I'm trying to use the code at my comments, but I'm having a little trouble. For example, the comments from my visitors have a yellow background, and I'd like mine to have a pink background… So when I copied the code, my comments came within a yellow cell (the default comments style) and then a pink cell (my comments). How can I separate my comments style to the others?

By: Golfy

Golfy — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 22:33:49 +0000

This is great! I tried to use the plugin but it didn't work for me. Modifying a few lines of according to yor tutorial is so easy and works perrrfect!

Thanks again

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:14:22 +0000

Ok, please disregard my previous comment, but now I have an issue with using this with two authors, how do I apply seperate styles for different authors..?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:04:37 +0000

Ok, wordpress newbie here, does this work in wp 1.5, I did a quick search thru the comments pages I have in my templates and didn't find < ?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>, I'm wondering if this changed in wp 1.5 hmm..

By: Scott Vandehey

Scott Vandehey — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:49:01 +0000

Improved version based on some feedback from the WP support forums:

$authorcomment = ";
if($comment->comment_author_email == get_the_author_email()) {
$authorcomment = ' authorcomment';
}
?>

By: Scott Vandehey

Scott Vandehey — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:53:52 +0000

I have a version that I modified for use on my site, where I have several authors posting, and I want each comments page to highlight the comments from the author of the post without hard-coding any email addresses:

global $authordata;
$authorcomment = false;
if($comment->comment_author_email == $authordata->user_email) {
$authorcomment = ' authorcomment';
}
?>

I hope this helps someone. I'm not a PHP guy at all, and it took beating my head against the wall for several hours to figure this out. Any suggestions, please let me know!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:54:09 +0000

Oh! Good heavens I kept thinking of the form itself – not the display of the comments. Gee is my face red! So I get you, I can use one of my Yahoo! AddressGuard emails for example, that nobody knows, so nobody would ever be able to spoof me (barring they don't guess it) correct?

Thanks!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:50:51 +0000

Tom – the point is that someone who doesn't already know your email address can not derive it from the page shown to them. While the FIELD is there for you to fill out, the data is not relayed back on the page. And even if they do know your address – you can use a seperate "special" one just for when you fill out comments on your own blog (sort of like a "password").

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:39:27 +0000

I just used this technique on my site which works great – however does not prevent spoofing. Someone mentioned that the e-mail address is not shown, but it is (even in this page, I see the email field) so I'm not sure what is being referred to. If I am showing the e-mail field – I can't prevent someone from filling in my information and spoofing me.

Is there some way I can restrict it to a certain IP address or some other technique?

Thanks!

Tom