Title: Help adding code to comments.php per Author Highlight plugin
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help adding code to comments.php per Author Highlight plugin

 *  [lizzyhagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lizzyhagen/)
 * (@lizzyhagen)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-code-to-commentsphp-per-author-highlight-plugin/)
 * Highlighting comments worked for the main user before the upgrade (4 versions).
   Can someone help me with this?
 * I have the Author Highlight Plugin – [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/AuthorHighlight](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/AuthorHighlight)–
   to use. And it says to add code into my comments.php. But where? ..and what does
   the “This is a comment” need to be?
 * I included my comments.php at the bottom.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!
 * **FROM AUTHOR HIGHLIGHTS**
    You need to add this code to your comments.php file(
   in your theme’s directory):
 * <?php author_highlight(); ?>
 *  It needs to be withing the loop for the comments, and you want to specify it
   so that it outputs into a class attribute. Something like this:
    <div class=”
   <?php author_highlight(); ?>”> This is a comment. </div>
 * **FROM MY COMMENTS.PHP FILE**
 *     ```
       <?php // Do not delete these lines
       	if ('comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
       		die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
               if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
                   if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) {  // and it doesn't match the cookie
       				?>
   
       				<p class="nocomments"><?php _e("This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments."); ?><p>
   
       				<?php
       				return;
                   }
               }
   
       		/* This variable is for alternating comment background */
       		$oddcomment = 'alt';
       ?>
   
       <!-- You can start editing here. -->
   
       <?php if ($comments) : ?>
   
       	<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3> 
   
       	<ol class="commentlist">
   
       	<?php foreach (array_reverse($comments) as $comment) : ?>
   
       		<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-comment_ID()?php the_author_link() ?>">
       			<div class="cmtinfo"><em>on <?php comment_date('d M Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?> <small class="commentmetadata"><a>" title=""> </a> <?php edit_comment_link('edit this','',''); ?></small></em><cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite></div>
       			<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
       			<em>Your comment is awaiting moderation.</em>
       			<?php endif; ?>
   
       			<?php comment_text() ?>			
   
       	<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
       		if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = '';
       		else $oddcomment = 'alt';
       	?>
   
       	<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
   
        <?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; ?>
   
       <?php if ('open' == $post-> comment_status) : ?>
   
       <h3 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h3>
       <p><i>(Please note that Keshav reviews all comments and sharings and that they are subject to editing and posting at his discretion.)</i><p>
   
       <?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
       <p>You must be <a>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>
       <?php else : ?>
   
       <form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
   
       <?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
   
       <p>Logged in as <a>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="<?php _e('Log out of this account') ?>">Logout »</a></p>
   
       <?php else : ?>
   
       <p>Testing</p>
   
       <p><input type="text" class="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />
       <label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?></small></label></p>
   
       <p><input type="text" class="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />
       <label for="email"><small>Mail (hidden) <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?></small></label></p>
   
       <p><input type="text" class="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
       <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <!-- <p><small><strong>XHTML:</strong> You can use these tags: <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p> -->
   
       <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
   
       <p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
       <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
       </p>
   
       <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
   
       <p>Live Preview</p>
       <p style="border: 1px solid #ccc;"><?php live_preview() ?></p>
   
       </form>
   
       <?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>
       <?php endif; // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head ?>
       ```
   
 * _[Moderator Note: Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use
   the code button. Or better still – use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/).
   Your posted code may now have been damaged by the forum’s parser.]_

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