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1. ladycrow
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Maybe I'm just missing it. I'd like to style my comments so that alternating comments area unique style.

   I found a suggestion to do it via the "$oddcomment" method but that's not working. This suggestion was using 2.3 so perhaps something has changed since then.

   What code would I need to add/alter to achieve this? Just the PHP, the CSS isn't my issue.

   Thanks in advance!

2. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ladycrow,

   It's usually not too hard and the $oddcomment method should work fine. Once you can give the comment it's own class, then it's just CSS.

   Which theme are you using?

3. ladycrow
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am using NeoSapien. It seemed to be -slightly- outdated and I've tweaked it a bit. It didn't have the $oddcomment so I added what I found.. resulting in this

   <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
   
   <li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?> " id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
    <?php
      echo get_avatar( get_comment_author_email(), $size = '50', $default = 'http://www.ofsexandlove.com/wp/wp-content/themes/ofsexandlove/images/avatar.jpg' );
      ?>
   
   	<cite><?php comment_type(__('Comment'), __('Trackback'), __('Pingback')); ?> <?php _e('by'); ?> <?php comment_author_link() ?> on <?php comment_date() ?> <a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"><?php comment_time() ?></a></cite>
   	<?php comment_text() ?>
   	</li>
   <?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
       if("altcomment" == $oddcomment) {$oddcomment="";}
       else { $oddcomment="altcomment"; }
   ?>
   <?php endforeach; ?>

4. ladycrow
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just wondering if anyone else has any thoughts on this one..?

5. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry, with the profile link not working I could not find this link.

   I'll take a look at this when I get home tonight from work, this is pretty easy to do.

6. ladycrow
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   No problem. Thanks a lot!

   It seems my comments file is pretty outdated so I'm going to see if I can swap it with the default theme comments.php and if that'll help any

   -edit-
   It did help. I'm not even sure how but it's working so I'll close this (if I can)

7. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well, that was easy! Good luck with your CSS now :)

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