Make Yourself Outstanding

The difference between you and the commentors is, you are the Blog Author, so your comment must stand out among the rest.

If your current theme does not have this feature, you can do it yourself. We are going to use a little of PHP and CSS here.

1. Search for the element that wraps a single comment in comments.php

Open your theme’s comments.php

Looks for these or similar codes:

foreach ($comments as $comment) :
$comment_type = get_comment_type();
	if($comment_type == 'comment') {
?>
<div class="commentclass">
...
...

For the codes above, the element that wraps a single comment is a <div> tag. It might be a list <li> tag depends on your theme.

2. Add a css class to it

Let’s call our new css class as admincomment.

Do some edit to the codes above :

foreach ($comments as $comment) :
$comment_type = get_comment_type();
	if($comment_type == 'comment') {
?>
<div class="commentclass<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) { echo ' admincomment'; } ?>">
...
...

The line user_id == 1) { echo ‘ admincomment’; } ?> simply check if the user id of the commentor equals to 1 (admin’s id is 1). If it is, it will output a string ‘ admincomment’.

3. Open your theme’s style.css

Now add this at anywhere :

.admincomment {
/* how do you want to make yourself outstanding */
background-color: red /*example*/
}

You can add background-image, change background color, etc.

4. Extra

In my zenverse theme, I add a word “Author” above the avatar in admin’s comment.

foreach ($comments as $comment) :
$comment_type = get_comment_type();
	if($comment_type == 'comment') {
?>
<div class="commentclass<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) { echo ' admincomment'; } ?>">
 
<?php
// i add a word "author" above the avatar if the commentor is admin
if ($comment->user_id == 1) {
echo '<strong>Author</strong>';
}
?>
 
<?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 64 ); ?>
...
...

That’s all

Play around with css and html to make yourself special.