highlight author comments

spaceninja
(@spaceninja)

19 years, 1 month ago

Using code from scriptygoddess, I’ve gotten my comments to highlight successfully. The problem is, I have multiple authors on my blog, and I only want to highlight the comments from the person who authored the post being viewed.

Here’s what I have now:

<?php $authorcomment = false; if($comment->comment_author_email == 'primary@email.com') { $authorcomment = ' authorcomment'; } elseif($comment->comment_author_email == 'secondary@email.com') { $authorcomment = ' authorcomment'; } ?>

What I would like is to do something like this:

<?php $authorcomment = false; if($comment->comment_author_email == $post->post_author_email) { $authorcomment = ' authorcomment'; } ?>

Obviously, the $post->post_author_email bit doesn’t exist, but I’m looking for something similar that will just output the email address for the author of the post, so that I can compare it to the author of the email.

Anyone know how to do this?

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asceticmonk
(@asceticmonk)

19 years, 1 month ago

What about this <?php the_author_email(); ?>?

Thread Starter spaceninja
(@spaceninja)

19 years, 1 month ago

I tried that – unfortunately, that somehow breaks the php script, and ends up echoing the variable onto the website, rather than just placing itself into my script. I think that’s why scriptygoddess used the $comments variable to get the comment email, rather than one of the WP template tags.

Anyone know the variable I can use to get the post author’s email?

jinsan
(@jinsan)

19 years, 1 month ago

If you find a solution let me know, as I will be trying something similar. You could try the offical commetns plugin, but I’m not sure if that will highlight the admin comments, or that of the authors

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

19 years, 1 month ago

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

Not good form to mix boolean and string types for a variable value (hence the reason for “$authorcomment = ''“).

Thread Starter spaceninja
(@spaceninja)

19 years, 1 month ago

Aha! I found my solution!

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

I had to set the global variable first, or the $authordata var didn’t exist, but this is working for me!

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

19 years, 1 month ago

get_the_author_email() takes care of the global for you.

Thread Starter spaceninja
(@spaceninja)

19 years, 1 month ago

Awesome, thanks for the tip! So, for my notes, here’s the final code:

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

maryafernanda
(@maryafernanda)

19 years ago

The author highlight also worked for me, but I’d like to have 2 different highlights, one for the author and another gor the other comments posted by visitors…. how can I do so?

unfortunate
(@unfortunate)

18 years, 8 months ago

So I just paste the following code somewhere. Does anything else need to be filled out?

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

So where would this code go? WordPress 1.5.

nathan
(@nathan)

18 years, 6 months ago

Hi I’m also trying to use this code but I have no idea where to put it, can someone please tell me where it should go?

gazeglow
(@gazeglow)

18 years, 5 months ago

I’m using a Kubrick-based theme (Letterhead), and while this code seems to work fine (nice job BTW), it doesn’t seem to want to supercede the alt class comment colors no matter what I do. Anyone else having an issue with this? Any workaround ideas?

For example, if I post a comment as the author, it will give me my special author class for the comment only if the alt class is not set in the comment loop with the variable $oddcomment. When $oddcomment is set to alt, I’ll get a grey box instead of the expected yellow author highlight. If $oddcomment is not set to alt, then I can get the author highlight. The value of $oddcomment alternates with every iteration of the comment loop. I’ve tried using a conditional to put priority on the author class, but no luck.

My code showing my simple hack that doesn’t work:

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

<li class="<?php
// MY HACK HERE:
if ($authorcomment=='me') echo $authorcomment; else echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">