How can I highlight admin comments?

Question

Basically what I want is to have all comments posted by admins with different background color than the rest, so they're easily distinguishable.

I wasn't able to find any plugin that would do this though, and hacking it into the theme doesn't look very clean.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

By default WordPress already adds user/admin/post author specific CSS to comments with the following three elements.

#byuser
#comment-author-admin
.bypostauthor

So you can just add something like #comment-author-admin {background-color;blue;} to your stylesheet.

Answer 2

Assuming that your Theme:

1. Uses the default comment-list markup, via wp_list_comments(), or
2. Manually applies the <?php comment_class(); ?> template tag appropriately

...then all you need to do in order to style author comments is to target the CSS class .bypostauthor.

So, if, in your case, "author" = "admin", then you're all set.

However, if your site has multiple authors, and/or multiple admins, then that won't be sufficient.

Fortunately, the comment_class() template tag can accept an argument, used to pass additional classes (it is also passed through the comment_class filter, but that is more difficult to use in this case).

So, try something like this:

$additional_comment_classes = '';

if ( user_can( $comment->user_id, 'administrator' ) ) {
    $additional_comment_classes = ' byadmin';
}

Then, when you call <?php comment_class(); ?>, call it as <?php comment_class( $additional_comment_classes ); ?>

Note: you'll need to be using a callback to <?php wp_list_comments(); ?> in order to modify comment_class() in this manner. If you don't want to go that route, then you'll need to add the class via the comment_class filter.

Answer 3

Open your style.css on your template folder and add this:

.authorstyle { background-color: #B3FFCC !important; }

Now open your comments.php and find code that should look something like this:

<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></li>

and replace it with this code:

<li class="<?php if ($comment->user_id == /*Give Author ID here*/) $oddcomment = "authorstyle"; echo $oddcomment; ?>"></li>