Originally Posted by vangogh

No subject line, no response from me

Hmm? Were you saying that to me or the person above?

Originally Posted by vangogh

You're using the latest version of the plugin, right?

Well, actually it's not activated, but yeah, that's the one (BTC Version 1.5.18)

Actually, I have one more important question pertaining to this. Can you "move" comments around (to underneath other ones)? Is there a special admin section or something that would allow this?

I have some comments I haven't replied to and I wanted to actually "reply to the comment" rather than just having a whole new comment thread underneath it. And I don't want to put off replying specifically for too much longer.

I just sent you a PM with what I think are the changes you need.

If I'm understand right about how you want to respond to comments when you want to reply to a specific comments just click on the 'reply to comment' link in the comment. If you want to start a new thread of comments at the bottom of the comments just fill in the form like you usually do.

oooh, this looks cool, i think im gonna try it out on my blog and see if i can hack it into that =)

OK I thought my color problems were solved, but apparently not.

Steve, I made all those changes you suggested, except the ".odd" part to black, at first I thought that meant it would only highlight my colors with that background, but I guess not.

At the same time I found out that this only changes the odd color within the comments, not one regular comment after another regular comment. I suppose in the mean time that's OK.

Basically what I wanted to have was make the administrator's comments (mine) black, not every other nested one. I think something like this would require a whole new hook.

Oh, that's something different. It's not really a BTC thing. There's at least one plugin specifically for styling the author's comments differently. I'm not remembering the name, probably author-comments or author-highlight or something like that.

I tried one on my blog, but the styles were conflicting with the styles from BTC, other plugins, or my general blog stylesheet. I forget which one. I eventually decided it wasn't worth working on for me.

The comments are automatically set up to add a class to the author's comments. What needs to happen is to have WP generate a class whenever the author comments and then styling that class how you want.

.odd just styles every other comment differently.

Steve, I think this is the page you were referring to, right?
http://lorinator.feminoise.com/autho...aded-comments/

Either way, I think it does the trick, (despite not needing the extra image in there).

The only problem I seem to have with the second portion, actually entering the right code into the comments.php file. I don't think it's right.

(Or I have my wordpress ID wrong I was just using "1", I couldn't find a global ID and I think "1" is everyone's starting admin user ID)

Actually I didn't know about that specific plugin. There are some general ones not necessarily for BTC.

When you log in to WP look at the listing of users. I think it shows the ID of each. One thing to consider though is you'll need to be logged in when leaving a comment. Sometimes I don't log in and just fill out the form like everyone else. The system wouldn't see you as the author in that case.

I'm not to concerned about being logged in, as I already am virtually all the time anyway, so that's not a big concern.

However I'm getting errors, I did what the page told me to, I entered this into btc.php:

PHP Code:

.authorcomment 
{
        background-color: #000000;
} 


And this is portion of comments.php:

PHP Code:

    <div  id="div-comment-<?php echo $c->comment_ID ?>" class='comment<?php echo $odd?>'>

And here's what I did:

PHP Code:

    <div  id="div-comment-<?php echo $c->comment_ID ?>" class='comment<?php echo $odd?><?php if($c->user_id == ‘1’) echo ‘ authorcomment’;?>''>

And I get syntax errors at the bottom of the screen:

 on line Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/(username)/public_html/lightningshock/wp-content/themes/royale-10/comments.php54

I really don't know if there's suppose to be that extra tick there or not. Or if my ID is correct, as I said, I'm not quite sure where our "specific number" is.

So I was thinking maybe you know what's causing the error.