Following on from last weeks post on highlighting your comments, I figured another useful post would be about setting up your comments to have alternating styles. We do this by adding an additional CSS class to every other comment, then you can style this class in your stylesheet with, perhaps, a different background colour, a border, or even put the user’s gravatar on the opposite side of the comment to normal.
To work out which comments to alternate we use a basic PHP “if statement” to determine which comment is being…
Over the last few days I have been looking into the user roles you can assign people to in Wordpress. WordPress currently has 5 different user levels : Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator. I have always believed that this user system was sufficient for what most blog owners needed however the more I looked into it the more I realised how limited this user system actually is because by default, you are not able to increase or decrease the capabilities certain user roles have.
If you are the only one…
Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz emailed me today to let me know about a new wordpress plugin he has released called Better Tag Manager. Keith decided to completely remove categories from his blog and and instead uses tags. Visitors can then search for posts using his Tag Cloud.
Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin
Basically, this plugin lets you edit the tags of your posts more easily. More specifically, it allows you to edit the tags of posts from the main post area ie. you don’t have to go into each post indvidually to…
Once you start to receive comments on your blog you’re going to want to have your comments stand out above the crowd, after all, it is your site! You’ll notice here on Blogging Tips that if the author of the post leaves a comment on their post then it stands out with white text on a red background compared to all the other comments with black text on a white background. Whilst there are a couple of plugins out there that can do this job for you, they’re not really…
There are a few plugins out there to give you greater ease over your page titles - SEO Title Tag, All-in-one SEO pack are just a couple of the more popular ones.
However, I don’t believe a standard blog necessarily needs these unless you have more than the basic static pages, as your post titles should be sufficiently well written anyway. The one page that does need a good title is your front page, yet for some reason the developers of the 2 templates that come with WordPress seem to have neglected…
Search This have released a wordpress plugin called ‘Comment Info‘. The plugin provides statistics for your commentators. All you need to do is hover over the commentators name and the info box will appear.
Here’s how Search This’s explaination of how it works :
When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter. The tip will display 1 of 4 results:
1. If the commenter has only posted once then it will say so in the tip (see number 1 in the legend…
