Highlighting Author Comments in WordPress

<?php wp_list_comments('type=comment&avatar_size=48'); ?>

View the HTML code:

<li class="comment byuser comment-author-Narga bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-1013">
				<div id="div-comment-1013" class="comment-body">
				<div class="comment-author vcard">
		<img alt='' src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/18d31a42990f0421bf83bf9c72bcd1b5?s=48&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D48&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' />		<cite class="fn"><a href='http://www.narga.net' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Narga</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span>		</div>

		<div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="http://www.narga.net/subscribe-then-get-1-month-free-rapidshare-premium-account/comment-page-1/#comment-1013">October 16, 2009 at 20:35</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="comment-edit-link" href="http://www.narga.net/wordpress/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&amp;c=1013" title="Edit comment">(Edit)</a></div>

		<p>I’ve saw 5 people who commented on this post. I’ll take random with they only.<br />
Those who Subscribed, write comments in here to get 1 Month FREE RapidShare Premium Account</p>

		<div class="reply">
				</div>

				</div>
		</li>

Open the “style.css” and near the bottom added these lines:

.authcomment {
       background-color: #B3FFCC !important;
}

And, that’s it! We hope that you find it useful!

Social Media Process v1.0

1. Bibsonomy

   http://www.bibsonomy.org/ShowBookmarkEntry?
   c=b&jump=yes&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&description=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

2. Blogmarks

    http://blogmarks.net/my/new.php? title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

3. Blinklist

   http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.php&Url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&Title=<?php the_title(); ?>

4. Delicious

   http://delicious.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&notes=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

5. Design Bump

   http://www.designbump.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

6. Design Float

   http://www.designfloat.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

7. Design Moo

   http://www.designmoo.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

8. Digg

   http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&bodytext=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

9. Diigo

   http://www.diigo.com/post?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

10. Dzone

    http://www.dzone.com/links/add.html?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

11. Facebook

    http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

12. Fark

    http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/farkit.pl?h=<?php the_title(); ?>&u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

13. Friendfeed

    http://www.friendfeed.com/share?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

14. Folkd

    http://www.folkd.com/submit/<?php the_permalink(); ?>

15. Google Bookmarks

    http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&annotation=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

16. Hacker News

    http://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

17. HaoHao

    http://www.haohaoreport.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

18. Identi.ca

    http://identi.ca/notice/new?status_textarea=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

19. IndianPad

    http://www.indianpad.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

20. Linked In

    http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&summary=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

21. Live Favorites

    https://favorites.live.com/quickadd.aspx?marklet=1&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

22. Mister Wong

    http://www.mister-wong.com/addurl/?bm_url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&bm_description=<?php the_title(); ?>

23. Mixx

    http://www.mixx.com/submit?page_url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

24. MySpace

    http://www.myspace.com/Modules/PostTo/Pages/?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

25. Netvibes

    http://www.netvibes.com/share?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

26. Newsvine

    http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&h=<?php the_title(); ?>

27. Ping.fm

    http://ping.fm/ref/?link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&body=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

28. Posterous

    http://posterous.com/share?linkto=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&selection=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

29. Propeller

    http://www.propeller.com/submit/?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

30. Reddit

    http://reddit.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

31. Scoopeo

    http://www.scoopeo.com/scoop/new?newurl=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

32. Simpy

    http://simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do? title=<?php the_title(); ?>&href=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

33. Slashdot

    http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=<?php the_title(); ?>&url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

34. SocialNews

    http://www.socialnews.biz/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?> ?>

35. Sphere

    http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

36. Sphinn

    http://sphinn.com/index.php?c=post&m=submit&link=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

37. Spurl

    http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php? url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

38. Squidoo

     http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/bookmark?<?php the_permalink(); ?>

39. StumbleUpon

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>

40. Technorati

    http://technorati.com/faves?add=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

41. Tipd

    http://tipd.com/submit.php?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>

42. Tumblr

    http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>&s=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

43. Twitter

    http://twitter.com/home?status=<?php the_title(); ?> - <?php the_permalink(); ?>

44. Wink

     http://www.wink.com/_/tag? url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&doctitle=<?php the_title(); ?>

45. Yahoo Bookmarks

    http://bookmarks.yahoo.com/toolbar/savebm?u=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&t=<?php the_title(); ?>

46. Yahoo Buzz

    http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?targetUrl=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&headline=<?php the_title(); ?>&summary==<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

If you would rather avoid using plugins in your blog and have complete control for yourself, then you might prefer to code the links into your theme yourself.

Most recent post and comments

List most recent comments

<?php
  global $wpdb;
  $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10";

  $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
  $output = $pre_HTML;
  $output .= "n<ul>";
  foreach ($comments as $comment) {
    $output .= "n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href="" . get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "" title="on ".$comment->post_title . "">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)."</a></li>";
  }
  $output .= "n</ul>";
  $output .= $post_HTML;
  echo $output;
?>

If you want to list more or less comments, simply change the "10" in the $sql variable.

List most recent posts

<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>
<ul>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile;?>
</ul>

Do you want to deactive your List most recent comments and recent post plugins then use code snippets above?

Display plan text counter

Simple, their counter buttons are ugly. They don’t match with all the designs, and on most designs they just look ugly. The ability to display the subscriber count gives you a lot of control over styling and make the count work with your design. Therefore in this article we will share a way you can display FeedBurner subscriber, Twitter followers, Delicious saver count as text in WordPress (it also has the same effect in other blog, cms platform) which allows you can style it and make it look like a part of a design rather than a copy and paste.

Display your FeedBurner count in full text

Copy paste the following code into your template, replace feedburner-id with your FeedBuner username. This script will grab you the feed count in numbers.

//get cool FeedBurner count
$fburl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";
//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();
//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);
//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$rsscount = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];
//end get cool feedburner count
echo $rsscount;
?>

To Display Feed Counter For Google FeedProxy In Text you can use the above code but you need to change this:

$fburl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

Into This:

$fburl="https://feedburner.google.com/api/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

You can surround it with the styling you like.

Get the number of Twitter follower in full text

When you have a website or blog and use Twitter, it is cool to display how many followers you have. To do so, simply use the short code snippet below.

<?php
$xml=file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=catswhocode');
if (preg_match('/followers_count>(.*)</',$xml,$match)!=0) {
	$tw['count'] = $match[1];
}
echo $tw['count'];
?>

Replace twitter-id with your twitter username.

Show how many times your url has been added to Delicious

To make your count into plain text (for now and then you can do with it what ever you want) I'll use small JavaScript and del.icio.us JSON feeds.
The HTML code

I was found <span id="delicious-count">0</span> reader who has been saved me to del.icio.us

The JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript">
//the callback -- what do we do with the json response?
function get_delicious_count(info) {
	//get the number of saves
	var num = info[0].total_posts
	//if none, do nothing
	if(!num) return;
	//if some, I add the number to the end of my link, like at the top of every one of my article posts.
	return $('delic').set({
		'text': $('delic').get('text') + ' (' + num + ')',
		'title': num + ' people found this post delicious!'
	});
}
</script>

<!-- GET THE JSON DATA -->
<script src='http://badges.del.icio.us/feeds/json/url/data?url=http://www.narga.net/display-plan-text-counter-of-feedburner-delicious-and-twitter/&callback=get_delicious_count'></script>

That’s it. It might look complicated, but it’s not. Just read it over slowly and let me know if you have any questions.

What is the Difference Between a Comment and a Trackback?
A comment is an interaction between a reader and the blogger about the blog post. A trackback is a link to this post published on another blog post.

The thing it, it’s a little bit different in WordPress 2.7+ than in previous versions, so I had to look up how to split the comments from trackbacks. I started off by making some modifications to the comments.php and functions.php files. Now, comments show up on top, and trackbacks show up below.

The comments loop in WordPress 2.7+

<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>
<ol class="commentlist">
        <?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
        </ol>
<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link() ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link() ?></div>
</div>
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
        <?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
                <!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
        <?php else : // comments are closed ?>
                <!-- If comments are closed. -->
<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.
        <?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

As you can see it is much simpler than the old comments “loop”. The majority of everything that is happening is now done via the function wp_list_comments.
To show separate trackbacks and pingbacks on a page in WordPress 2.7 or above, you can change the code in the default comments.php with the following:

Remove pingbacks and trackbacks in comments list

1. Open comments.php then find

   <?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>

2. Add the following codes after it:

   <?php if ( ! empty($comments_by_type['comment']) ) : ?>

3. Then find

   <?php wp_list_comments(); ?>

4. Make it change like this

   <?php wp_list_comments('type=comment'); ?>

   last step is write this code below after the wp_list_comments function.

   </ol><?php endif; ?>

Display pingbacks and trackbacks

You can do it with similar previous step about

<?php if ( ! empty($comments_by_type['pings']) ) : ?>
<h3 id="pings">Trackbacks/Pingbacks</h3>
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments('type=pings'); ?>
</ol>
<?php endif; ?>

Now we need to style the pingbacks and trackbacks list by add new functions to functions.php

1. Make change

   <?php comments_template(); ?>

   to

   <?php comments_template('', true); ?>

   in single.php

2. Add new functions to functions.php

   <?php
       function list_pings($comment, $args, $depth) {
              $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
       ?>
               <li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>"><?php comment_author_link(); ?>
       <?php } ?>

You need to call $listping functions (new style of list pingbacks) in single.php

<ol class="pinglist">
<?php wp_list_comments('type=pings&callback=list_pings'); ?>

Full loop code below

<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
	<?php if ( ! empty($comments_by_type['comment']) ) : ?>
	<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>

	<ol class="commentlist">
	<?php wp_list_comments('type=comment'); ?>
	</ol>
	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php if ( ! empty($comments_by_type['pings']) ) : ?>
	<h3 id="pings">Trackbacks/Pingbacks</h3>
       <?php
           function list_pings($comment, $args, $depth) {
           $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
       ?>
            <li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>"><?php comment_author_link(); ?>
       <?php } ?>
	<ol class="pinglist">
	<?php wp_list_comments('type=pings&callback=list_pings'); ?>
	</ol>
	<?php endif; ?>

	<div class="navigation">
		<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link() ?></div>
		<div class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link() ?></div>
	</div>
 <?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>

	<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
		<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->

	<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
		<!-- If comments are closed. -->
		<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>

	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

This is how we have separated the trackbacks/pingbacks from comments, hidden the trackbacks and styled our comments in WordPress 2.7.