Title: Highlight Author Comments
Author: RobMarsh
Published: <strong>October 20, 2007</strong>
Last modified: Avust 22, 2008

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Highlight Author Comments

 By [RobMarsh](https://profiles.wordpress.org/robmarsh/)

[Telechargiada](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/highlight-author-comments.1.0.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-author-comments/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-author-comments/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-author-comments/#installation)
 * [Development](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-author-comments/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/highlight-author-comments/)

## Descripziun

Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author
in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files, etc. All you do
is provide a snippet or two of CSS styling to be applied to author posts.

### Version History

 * Version 1.0.2
    - Workaround for WP bug that failed to style the first paragraph as a paragraph
 * Version 1.0.1
    - Added the ability to style the comment author link
    - Added some security with nonces
 * Version 1.0.0
    - Initial version

## Installaziun

Highlight Author Comments is installed in 3 easy steps:

 1. Unzip the „Highlight Author Comments“ archive and copy the folder to /wp-content/
    plugins/
 2. Activate the plugin
 3. Use the Options > Highlight Comment admin page to enter the CSS styling you want
    to apply to author comments.

## FAQ

  What Do I Enter in the Options Page?

The plugin Options page just has couple of text boxes where you put the bits of 
CSS you want to apply to highlighted comments. Don’t include **{** or **}**: just
the CSS. For example, by default the plugin applies the CSS `padding: 1em` which‚
indents‘ the comment a little all round. If you wanted to also make the text red,
for example, you would use `color: red; padding: 1em`.

You can style the body of the comment itself and/or the link to the comment author.

  CSS Styling… What’s That?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is too complex a subject to go into here. A good resource
is provided by the [Web Design Group](http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/).

  How About Some Examples?

Here’s where some artistry would be a help! In lieu of skill here are some examples
to play with:

 * padding: 1em;
 * padding-left: 20px;
 * background-color: #FFFF95;
 * border-left: 1em solid #DDD; padding: 1em;
 * background: white url(http://www.yourblog.com/images/fluffy-clouds.gif)
 * background-color: silver; margin-left: -2em; padding: 1em 1em 1em 2em;
 * etc.

  How Does It Know Which Comments to Highlight?

The plugin simply compares the email of the post author with the email of the commentor.
This works fine as long as a post author is logged in when commenting. It will fail
if the author is not logged in and uses a different email.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/5e33f031e5d558478b6cafe4d693b5062f1e376106488f08ba65974198e004b1?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Really good plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-good-plugin-50/)󠁿

 [bhawnatech](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhawnatech/) Settember 3, 2016

Installed it just now and give a lot of options such as adding images etc to the
author comments . Really great hats off

 [ Read all 1 review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/highlight-author-comments/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Highlight Author Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ RobMarsh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/robmarsh/)

[Translate “Highlight Author Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/highlight-author-comments)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/highlight-author-comments/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/highlight-author-comments/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/highlight-author-comments/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/highlight-author-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **avant 18 onns**
 *  Active installations **300+**
 *  WordPress version ** 1.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.6.1**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-author-comments/)
 * Tags
 * [automatic](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/automatic/)[comments](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)
   [Highlight](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/highlight/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://roh.wordpress.org/plugins/highlight-author-comments/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ RobMarsh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/robmarsh/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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## Dar

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