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1. baal666
   Member
   Posted 3 years 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. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years 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 3 years 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. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years 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 3 years ago #

   Thanks! I'll read this carefully.

6. baal666
   Member
   Posted 3 years 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 3 years 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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