Title: Problems Problems. Help Needed Please.
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# Problems Problems. Help Needed Please.

 *  [bk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bk/)
 * (@bk)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-problems-help-needed-please/)
 * Well, at the moment… my site is having two problems. I don’t know how to fix 
   them.
 * First one: How do I remove the ” This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 
   2005…” box from the comment page? Check here: [http://www.xeenat.com/wordpress/?p=6#comments](http://www.xeenat.com/wordpress/?p=6#comments)
 * Second one: Whenever I search something, I want to get rid off the message I 
   get. It messed up the sidebar. Please check here:
    [http://www.xeenat.com/wordpress/index.php?s=blah](http://www.xeenat.com/wordpress/index.php?s=blah)
 * I’d like to thank you guys in advance for help. It will be greatly appreciated
   by this guy who is new to WordPress and PHP.

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 *  Thread Starter [bk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bk/)
 * (@bk)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-problems-help-needed-please/page/2/#post-221676)
 * Not really. I can’t change the color of the grey boxes. If I do, all of them 
   become the same color. See, I want it this way. First comment has white background,
   second comment has any color I want. And so on… see the pattern?
 * Thank you.
 *  [mumkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mumkin/)
 * (@mumkin)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-problems-help-needed-please/page/2/#post-221677)
 * OK so, taking [this](http://www.xeenat.com/wordpress/2005/05/17/xeenatcom-v2-update-4/#comments)
   as an example page. Look at the source of the page as rendered by your browser
   and you’ll see that Bilal’s first comment, on grey, has a class of “alt” while
   Habz’ comment is on white, and its class is “”
 * Assigning these classes to comments is handed in comments.php by this bit of 
   code:
 * ` <?php 
    if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = ''; else $oddcomment = 'alt';?
   >
 * Actually, instead of my trying to explain it all, I think you’re better off reading
   [this tutorial on working with $oddcomment from ColdForged](http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2005/04/19/coldforgeds-wordpress-comment-template-deconstructed-part-1/),
   which should empower you to do everything you want to with your comment display
   and more.
 * Good Luck!
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-problems-help-needed-please/page/2/#post-221682)
 * mumkin is overcomplicating it 🙂
    But s/he almost gave you the solution by saying
   the “grey comments” are in a class called _alt_ So, all you have to do now is
   to find `.alt { background-color: #f8f8f8; border-top: 1px solid #ddd; border-
   bottom: 1px solid #ddd; } in your stylesheet and change the bgcolor. Don’t you
   love the simplicity of CSS? 😉
 *  Thread Starter [bk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bk/)
 * (@bk)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-problems-help-needed-please/page/2/#post-221683)
 * Thank, very, very much to both of you.. mumkin and moshu! 🙂

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