milkaddict

thanks 🙂

Is there really none that knows any of this stuff? 🙁

Oh my!
*digs hole in the ground and hide is head in*

thanks! stupiad typo mistake that now is fixed and solved the issue! :)) I should have indeed checked the page with the validator before bothering.. I just thought I had done something stupid in the way I was using the function 😀

thank you! 🙂

Wow, apparently I solved it already by myself!
I really have no idea how this may have happened other than I received already the plugin with wrong code in it.
Indeed in the plugin it was trying to call the wrong function “settings_fields”:

<?php
            if (function_exists('settings_fields')) {
                settings_field('textlinkads');
            } else {

Simply removing the letter ‘s’ and using “settings_field” solved the problem!
Hopefully this helps other people in case it may happen again.
adriano

I investigated a bit further and I think the key is in the “comment_class” function that is called by my “baloon_comment” callback function.

I would need to know how to use my CSS “commenttext” class (to format the comment) with “comment_class”. I tried everything I could think of but every time my website was going offline because there was some error in the way I was coding this:

function baloon_comment($comment, $args, $depth) {
   $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment; ?>

   <li <?php comment_class(); ?> id="li-comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">

<div class="commenttext>
   <b class="tl"><b class="tr"></b></b>

//SOME CODE to load Avatar, date, time, edit link, comment content and reply button

  <b class="bl"></b>
  <b class="br"><b class="point"></b></b>
</div>

     </div>
<?php
        }

I give up trying for today.. it’s almost midnight and I am too tired 🙁
I hope someone can help to explain how to use this function :-/
thanks
adri

Ahh I found out why I cannot edit themes anymore, after searching on the forum, it appears to be WordPress Firewall plugin 🙂
I now deactivated it and I am going to try again soon!
adri

Thanks 🙂
I tested this but it doesn’t change the way my comments are displayed even though from the html source of the page I can see that all the html tags are there.

I actually used this in the callback function (the one from the codex link above), and I placed in functions.php:

...
<div class="commenttext>
   <b class="tl"><b class="tr"></b></b>

      <?php comment_text() ?>

  <b class="bl"></b>
  <b class="br"><b class="point"></b></b>
</div>
...

as example of css to use to change the layout I took the part of css from the blog I mentioned above, that is in this case:

/* Speech bubbles */
.commenttext {width:500px; height:auto; }
b.tl {display:block; width:500px; height:11px; font-size:1px;}
b.tr {display:block; width:489px; height:11px; font-size:1px; float:left; margin-left: 11px;}
b.bl {display:block; width:11px; height:11px; font-size:1px; float:left;}
b.br {display:block; width:489px; height:11px; font-size:1px; float:right; position:relative;}
b.point {display:block; font-size:1px; width:25px; height:18px;}
/* .commenttext p {padding:8px; margin:0; border:3px solid #fff; border-width:0 3px; text-align:justify;} */

div.commenttext b.tl {background:url(images/bubbles/b_tl2.png) top left no-repeat;}
div.commenttext b.tr {background:url(images/bubbles/b_tr2.png) top right no-repeat;}
div.commenttext p {background:#ecc7c7;}
div.commenttext b.bl {background:url(images/bubbles/b_bl2.png) top left no-repeat;}
div.commenttext b.br {background:url(images/bubbles/b_br2.png) top right no-repeat;}
div.commenttext b.point {background:url(images/bubbles/b_point2.png) top left no-repeat; margin:7px 0 0 15px;}

div.commenttext p {
    padding:4px 16px;
    margin:0;
    border:none;
    background: url(images/bubbles/b_bg2.png);
    color: #141414;
}

.commentlist li.author  div.commenttext b.tl {background:url(images/bubbles/b_tl3.png) top left no-repeat;}
.commentlist li.author div.commenttext b.tr {background:url(images/bubbles/b_tr3.png) top right no-repeat;}

.commentlist li.author div.commenttext b.bl {background:url(images/bubbles/b_bl3.png) top left no-repeat;}
.commentlist li.author div.commenttext b.br {background:url(images/bubbles/b_br3.png) top right no-repeat;}
.commentlist li.author div.commenttext b.point {background:url(images/bubbles/b_point3.png) top left no-repeat; }

.commentlist li.author div.commenttext p {
    background: url(images/bubbles/b_bg3.png);
}

.commentbottom {
    padding-top: 15px;
}

As you can see from my blog page here nothing changes for the comments even though the tags I added are in the html source code 🙁

Also the images for the bubbles are places in the right folder that is THIS for example

Do you know what could be going wrong?
thanks,
adri