Comments on: Wordpress 2.7 Comments – Style Starter #2

By: Konya Nakliyat

Konya Nakliyat — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:02:21 +0000

It seems to me this is not working correctly with IE6…..

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:37:25 +0000

Just want to say thanks for posting this info. You saved me a lot of hard work ;)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:30:17 +0000

Thank you for making this code available. It’s helping me get a handle on the comments feature in wordpress 2.7 and how to style them. Now, I just need to tweak the code to work with my site. Thanks for the start!

By: Camino

Camino — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Hi, whats the plugin that you’re using to reply with ajax? And what’s the plugin that you’re using to the “notify me of followup comments via e-mail”.

Thanks a lot.

By: Kalle Kniivilä

Kalle Kniivilä — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:53:43 +0000

For an inline reply box you need to add this:

if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ );

to your header.php immediately before the call to wp_head():

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:15:52 +0000

I just wanted to say “woot” because my name is in your post :D

By: baal666

baal666 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:10:04 +0000

Wow now that’s an easy solution. I simply added “height:1%” and it works fine with IE6 now.

I hope IE6 will be soon dead. I can’t believe about 25% of my visitors still use that crap. Well, anyway, got to deal with that, and now it is working fine!

Thanks!

By: SiriusBuzz.com

SiriusBuzz.com — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:36:18 +0000

No one want to see IE6 go away more then me.

That being said, people still use it, so I cater. If the issue you were having was with the avatars not being positioned correctly it is because of the problem IE6 has with absolute positioning. The relative element needs some kind of width or height.

ul.commentlist li { border:1px solid #ddd; margin:0 0 10px; padding:5px 7px 5px 57px; position:relative; height:1%; }

Note how I added the 1% height to the end.

By: baal666

baal666 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:53:56 +0000

I am not sure how to do this. The first bypostauthor defines the background color, but for some reason it does not do it with replies; this is why I tried to set “ol.commentlist li ul.children li.bypostauthor {background: #xxxxx} ” but it didn’t work either. Any idea? Otto’s solution seems more complicated, or maybe I missed his point, which is also a possibility.

By: Woudloper

Woudloper — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:10:25 +0000

Maybe delete some of the bypostauthor style, because I see you now have 3 of these elements defines in your stylesheet. Furthermore you can also take a look at Otto's solution as he also describes some more style elements (like: byuser, comment-author-authorname, etc.) that can be used.

By: baal666

baal666 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:25:21 +0000

Another question Chris (sorry for all the questions).

I was able to use bypostauthor to set the background color, but it only works in the main comments panel; when I reply, the color is not there. Do you know how to arrange this?

Thanks a lot.

By: baal666

baal666 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:22:57 +0000

Yeah! It works well for me now! :)

Tell me, cdharrison, how do you modify your template colors? I tried to modify the CSS, but without success (as I said on Wordpress forum, I am not an expert).. How would you modify the color of the “reply” button?

Thanks

By: baal666

baal666 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:13:46 +0000

What would be nice would be to use Otto solution for the reply appearing right below the comment AND cdharrison easy-to-use CSS… If anyone know how to do this, it’s a go for me! :)

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:36:28 +0000

I definitely need to look into Otto’s solution. What I’ve done assumes one would just use what is provided with the new Default theme that comes with Wordpress 2.7. (I copied it over to my own theme and then stylized it…) An inline comment reply form would definitely be a better solution in the long run.

Glad my overview of the style elements will come in handy! I figured if it was something I found useful, others might be able to use it as well…

By: Woudloper

Woudloper — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:27:34 +0000

Indeed, that's the way it is working. When you are implementing the solution as Otto describes it on his blog, the comment section will move just below the comment you are replying to. Otto explains it in very detail how this works. Just try to reply to a comment on his site and you will see what I mean. Furthermore, thanx for the style elements overview. This way I can use this to port the old Blix theme to a wordpress 2.7 compatible version.