I’ve been using the excellent Hybrid theme framework for more than a year now and I’ve come to love it. I use a modified version of the classic child theme from versions previous to the big 0.6 release. One thing that I’ve always loved to read on other blogs are the author comments. Those few author comments are always packed with quick wit or deep wisdom; they stand out too, are are highlighted!
Hybrid makes highlighting author comments ridiculously easy. In the main style.css of your child theme (you are using a child theme of hybrid, aren’t you?), simply add these styles.
.comment li.entry-author {
background-color: #FFFEC4;
border: 1px solid #FFDD59;
}
There you have it! Any author comment will now be highlighted with a light yellow background and border. It is really that easy too.
There are other things you can do additionally. For instance, let’s say you have administrators and contributors on your blog and they both post. You can use some clever hybrid magic to make their posts stand out.
.comment li.administrator {
background-color: #FFFEC4;
border: 1px solid #BA9400;
}
.comment li.contributor {
background-color: #FFFEC4;
border: 1px solid #FFDD59;
}
I simply reused the author-style for the contributor style, but the administrators that leave comments will now have a nice deep brown border around their comment.
Hybrid makes it effortless to do this. Be creative while making your author comments stand out. Many people only scan the comments but pause on the author comments for the very same reasons I do.