I have been installing AJAX Comments and I love it, but it doesn’t support stylesheets that have alternating backgrounds (like the WordPress default!) in real-time (they’ll be fine after a refresh).<\/p>\n
As such, I decided to hack in the functionality myself. Unfortunately, I’ve run into a small problem when it comes to understanding exactly what WordPress does with the comments array. Currently, AJAX Comments gets each new comment’s formating by requesting a new comment page with one comment (the latest) from comments.php. It then uses preg_match() to find the LI element and strip out the insides (class info and everything between the opening and closing tags).<\/p>\n
To make alternating work, I need to have WordPress create a comments page with two<\/em> comments rather than one, and then strip out the class info from the second one. Unfortunately, when I do so the second comment always seems to be blank. Every other comment will update properly in wonderful AJAX style, but the ones in between (requiring a comment file with two comments) are blank until a refresh.<\/p>\n Here’s the code I added to ajax-comments.php: Using preg_match_all() instead of preg_match() should get all the instances of the LI element instead of just one…but it doesn’t. I suspect that the problem occurs in the first line I added, and maybe WordPress won’t create a comment page with two of the same comment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-503319","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/503319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/503319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nif($commentcount%2 == 0) $comments = array($comment, $comment);<\/code>
\nand:
\npreg_match_all('#<li(.*?)>(.*)#ims', $commentout, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);<\/code>
\nand:
\nif($commentcount%2 == 0) echo '<li '.$matches[1][1].' style="display:none">'.$matches[1][2].'';<\/code><\/p>\n