wp-AuthorComment

This Word­Press plu­gin will eas­ily allow you to uniquely style com­ments made by a post author. By default, author com­ments will be given a light yel­low back­ground, but this is entirely cus­tomiz­able at the plugin’s options page. Cus­tom styling requires only a basic under­stand­ing of CSS.

If you are using a mod­ern Word­Press theme, this should work auto­mat­i­cally after plu­gin instal­la­tion. If it does not, you will need to fol­low these directions:

1. Log in to your Word­Press admin panel as an administrator.
2. Go to Appearance > Editor
3. Select the Comments (comments.php) file — Popup Comments (comments-popup.php) if you use popup comments.
4. Locate the open­ing HTML tag that wraps indi­vid­ual com­ments. This will be inside of a PHP foreach state­ment. The open­ing tag should be an HTML div or li element.
5. If this ele­ment already has a class name assigned, add the fol­low­ing code within the class name’s quote marks:

   <?php if (method_exists($wpac, 'author_comment')) $wpac->author_comment();?>

6. If this ele­ment does not have any classes assigned, add the fol­low­ing code within the open­ing before the end of the open­ing tag:

   class='<?php if (method_exists($wpac, 'author_comment')) $wpac->author_comment();?>'

7. Click the ‘Update File’ button.