In blog posts that generate high amount of discussion, it often becomes hard for users to track the author’s comment. Specially when the discussion is heated, it is very interesting to see author’s thoughts. In this tutorial we will share one of the easiest and simplest way to highlight author’s comments in WordPress.

Rearranging comments to display the latest one on top is becoming a new trend that more and more top bloggers are implementing on their site. If your blog has a lot of user interaction, then this option should be your choice because often the recent comments get buried on the last pages or at the very bottom. In this article we will show you how you can rearrange your comments and display the most recent one on top.

The notifications of WordPress for the author of an article or comments are not always right on the spot according to the needs. WordPress also knew that and created these functions so that it’s easy to adapt notifications to your needs or can completely be replaced. Therefore, I will briefly show how to adjust the mails to your needs.

Yes, that’s right, you can have comments displayed in your blog or site running on WordPress without using neither the classic pre-built Recent Comments Widget nor any of the Recent Comments Plugins that are available out there for everybody to use.

By the end of this tutorial, we’ll have set up a comment system which automatically highlights comments according to the commenter’s role. For our example, we’re going to aim for an end result similar to the screenshot below. Comments will be highlighted based on roles of guest, author, and blog administrator.

You will find 10 of the top creative WordPress tips and tricks for your comment page that will surely make your blogging life not only simpler, but fun for your readers.

You started your blog, you’ve got some cool posts and people are starting to leave comments on them. And, as a good host, you’ll probably want to reply to them. But in comments, or should we say discussion, you’re just an average Joe, not an author. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could somehow highlight your comment, so everybody could know that that’s author speaking? Yes, it would be awesome, and we’re going to show you how can you do it.

Since version 2.5 of WordPress, Gravatar service is included in the core files. On one hand, you can use it to make the comment overview more nicely. But you can also integrate this function in your template and you don’t have to use a plugin.

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Due to the new comments system in WordPress 2.7, and the wp_list_comments() function, you have to change the way you style author comments. But don’t worry, I’m going to show you how to do.