Ben
Ben is a lifelong Nintendo fan who likes to build websites, and make video games. He buys way too much Lego.
BM-Comment-Highlight Guide
In my excitement to get the BM-Comment-Highlight plugin out yesterday I forgot to tell you how to actually use the thing. Also since posting it yesterday I have though of another feature for the plugin so I have updated it accordingly.
How to use BM-Comment-Highlight
To use the plugin all you have to do is include a single php function call in your wordpress loop. This will return to you a string that you can use as a class in any way you see fit.
<?php foreach ( $comments as $comment ) {
$commentClass = bm_commentHighlight(); ?>
<li class="<?php echo $commentClass; ?>">
<?php comment_text(); ?>
</li>
<?php } ?>
When the function is called you will get a number of classes returned (most likely more than one). These let you style the comment appropriately.
The classes you get are:
- author – the commenter is the post author
- reader – the commenter is simply a reader of the blog
- user – the commenter is a registered user
- userID_# – the # is the user id of the registered user that has commented
- pingback – the comment is a pingback
- trackback – the comment is a trackback
Updates?
The update to the plugin is the additional feature of telling you if the comment is a comment, a trackback, or a pingback. This will let you style your incoming links in a more effective way.
I downloaded it like a minute ago and am testing it in my new theme. I’ll be back to let you know how it went. Although I should say you should give like a little preview of it at least on your plugin page. But it’s just a thought.
… is there a way to get it and avoid downloads?
Hi Ben-
Loyal follower here -for Regulus
Any chance of getting a more bold text on the left side categories?
Any chance to have a larger font here-
thanks so much-
Jay
Jenny – there’s a screenshot up the top there. Is that not good enough?
CodeOdd – it doesn’t work on wordpress.com blogs I’m afraid
Jay – that seem unrelated to the plugin? 🙂 Regardless, these things are easy to change in the themes css files if you have access to edit them.
looool again Ben link is not working
this comment is because i forgot to check the notify me box
The link to download the plugin doesn’t work…
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bm-comment-highlight/#post-2828
i got the link from word press
Aaarghh – they changed it back to how it was originally!
I’ll change them all again :S
im lost as to where to put this code and i think im pretty code snazzy
I’m an idiot. Will you please explain to me where you would place this? Please talk like you are speaking to a 5 year old, and then maybe I will get it.
:O)
Hey. Great plugin, exactly what I have been looking for. I put the code into the comment.php file. So far so good – but how exactly do I define the classes?
Cheers.
I love the idea, and have been looking for something similar for a while, but after putting the code in my template, my comments no longer load and I get an error: “Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()”.
Any ideas?
Georges – you stick the code in the comments template along with the comment loop.
Matt – I got the sample code wrong. Take another look and let me know how you get on.
Rob – the classes would be saved in the styles.css file. If you don’t know css this will be harder.
Yup, that did the trick. Excellent! Thanks Ben!
Like Kevin, I consider myself pretty up-to-speed on WordPress and plugins and can’t get my head around the installation of this at all.
I’m afraid it’s more than a case of uploading the plugin and activating it. I couldn’t think of a nice clean way to include the comment styles so this is the best I have. If you could try to explain what you don’t understand then I will see if I can be clearer. Obviously since I made the thing I understand what’s going on so it all seems easy to me (it is, honest 🙂 )
It kept giving me PHP errors, but I spent some time trying to fix it and got it myself.
Never replied back but just got an email.
this is all you need to add to file:
wp-content/themes/yourtheme/comment.php
After:
Add:
Replace: ”
add to wp-content/themes/yourtheme/style.css
.user { css styes here}
.reader { css styes here}
.author { css styes here}
Kevin – php errors? I’m not aware of any. Glad you got there in the end 🙂
Bill – your code isn’t displaying 🙁 If you email it to me through the contact form on my about page then I will add it to your comment.
Hey, I would really like to use this plugin but have no idea where and how to implement this code and what sort of things I could do with it, anyone what to give me some pointers?
Hi Ben,
sorry to bother you but it can’t get that plugin to work. I dl and activated it, put the classes in my .css file and the code in my comments.php.
When i refreshe the page it stopps to load. I have erased the code in coments but let it in my .css file for further use.
Problem is – i wrote part of my comments myself and now i’m stuck. Pls have a look:
“>
schrieb @ um
Hi,
I’am trying using the plugins, but I’am really novice…
Here is my comment.php file :
[code]
pour “”
id=”comment-“>
Says:
comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?>
Votre commentaire est en attente de validation.
” title=””> at
[/code]
I failed trying to modify my comment file… Can somebody modify it for me ? I always get parse of syntax error 🙁
What ist the wppressloop? Where must I put the code?