Comments on: Author Highlighting in MT

By: Dan Cederholm

Dan Cederholm — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:08:14 +0000

OK, I’m tired of deleting all the test comments using my name (and yes, I was asking for it). But the thread gets rather pointless…

By: jblanch

jblanch — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:29:32 +0000

Hey, just wanted to throw a suggestion out there. I’ve made a few local band sites before, and the guestbook always gets trashed, and people always write fake names, so i implemented a simple password method by adding :password to the end of the name, (example: jblanch:mypassword) then it would just display jblanch and the speical box if right, otherwise just jblanch with no special box). It works really well.

By: Bill Rawlinson

Bill Rawlinson — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 01:06:24 +0000

Thanks to Dan for starting the thread and to Hesam for saying how he does it in wordpress. It took me about 10 seconds to implement on my install!

By: Josh Dura

Josh Dura — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:54:44 +0000

Great post Dan! Been wondering how to do this for a couple weeks now. btw – your goin down in fantasy football this week :)

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 04:05:49 +0000

I think the question is, Dan, who would not want to pretend to be you? ;)

By: Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:54:35 +0000

Funny, I just posted a very similiar article last week to create spoof-proof highlighted comments in Wordpress if anyone is interested. Its a really simple hack actually.

By: Malarkey

Malarkey — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:33:06 +0000

I’m now using a combination of MTSwitch and MTFlipFlop for comments which is a bit long-winded but seems to serve a purpose.
I’ve added a few extra CSS selectors to give us Brit Packers a shiny new Union badge in comments too, and it’s a lot more flexible than my previous solution.
Ta again Dan

By: Simon Cox

Simon Cox — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:35:30 +0000

I have not found a way yet to get it to work with TypeKey but what if you have a class on the tag already? I am using MTRoundRobin to style my comments alternately. Fortunatly MT Switch has a default as well which manes that you can put your normal class in there:
class="dan" class="" >...
This will alternately switch between two classes (using MTRoundRobin) unless MTSwitch is triggered and we get Dans personal styling.
Nice.

By: Simon Cox

Simon Cox — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:40:46 +0000

I am wondering if you can leverage something from the Typekey log-in which would guarentee that it was in fact you.
I will have a look at this (and I encourage anyone else to as well as I may be out of my depth!)

By: Blake Scarbrough

Blake Scarbrough — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:19:04 +0000

Excellent, I have been wondering how to do this. Now everybody’s blog will have this. It does make it easier to read comments and refer back to them.