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1. baal666
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi,

   I'm having some fun toying with 2.7 new possibilities...

   I was able to get alternating comments styles by using .odd and .even, but the .bypostauthor does not override them so I don't see different colors when I am the author.

   Here is my code:

   <?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
   
   	<?php
   		/* Count the totals */
   		$numPingBacks = 0;
   		$numComments  = 0;
   
   		/* Loop through comments to count these totals */
   		foreach ($comments as $comment) {
   			if (get_comment_type() != "comment") { $numPingBacks++; }
   			else { $numComments++; }
   		}
   
   	?>
   
   	<?php 
   
   	/* This is a loop for printing comments */
   	if ($numComments != 0) : ?>
   		<ol class="commentlist">
   		<li class="commenthead"><h2 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h2></li>
   
   	<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
   
   	</ol>
   
   	<?php endif; ?>

   and the css:

   .bypostauthor{
   background-color: #E9B5C1; }
   
   .odd {
   background-color: #EDC0CB; }
   
   .even {
   background-color: #7BCB94; }

   Anyone can help me?

   Thanks

2. jeremyclark13
   Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Put .bypostauthor last. Cascading Style Sheets means that rules are applied in order from from the beginning and can be overwritten by later rules.

3. baal666
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks a lot Jeremy! You solved my problem!

   Just a last question while you're here: how do I customize the comments now with 2.7? With 2.6 and below I would change manually everything in comments.php, but now it seems it is all inside the wp_list_comments() finction...

   I mean, I want to replace "Says" by something else, change some other things that can't be done in CSS, etc.

4. jeremyclark13
   Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #

   You have to use something called a "callback" I've written a little guide for it click on my name and it you'll see the post on the front page.

5. baal666
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Thanks! I'll read this carefully.

6. baal666
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Very interesting post you have there.

   If you have some free time, I wasn't sure how to set things to work and I let a comment.

7. baal666
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Is it possible to do the same trick with 2.6? I mean, how to set odd, even and postauthor correctly?

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