Problem with highlighting of nested comments

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  bigdave44 · Member · May 28, 2009 at 10:14 pm

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  I have implemented a new theme based on Sandbox-10 and the Diurnal stylesheet, with my own modifications. My problem is that Diurnal introduced an attractive method of highlighting comments made by the author of the post, but this highlighting also applies to any further comments nested within one by the author.

  I can see that bypostauthor applies to all the nested comments. Is there any way of stopping it applying to comments that are not by the post author.

  I have an example in the 4th comment on this post.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 28, 2009 at 10:19 pm

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  I would suggest contacting the person who did the stylesheet skin you are using. They probably have much more knowledge of it than the collective knowledge of the volunteers here (which is minimal).

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  bigdave44 · Member · May 28, 2009 at 10:29 pm

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  <B>thesacredpath</b>

  Thank you for your prompt response. I have tried, without success, to contact Ms Smith on another matter.

  As I see it, it is more a sandbox-10 issue. The only relevant line in the stylesheet is

  li.bypostauthor div.comment-author {
  background:#f0f0f0 url('http://bigdave44.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/starbk.png') top left repeat-x;
  }

  Presumably the underlying problem is that nested comments are more recent than both the theme and the stylesheet.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 28, 2009 at 10:37 pm

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  The problem is that it probably isn’t possible without access to the underlying theme PHP script files since there would have to be some sort of if-then loop to determine the author of each comment in the nested thread.

  We do not have access to the underlying theme files since this is a multi-user platform and we all share the same wordpress and theme files.

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  bigdave44 · Member · May 28, 2009 at 10:45 pm

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  Thanks again.

  I did rather expect the answer that you have given, but I had hoped there might be something else!

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 28, 2009 at 10:48 pm

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  You’re welcome, and I can’t think of anyway to do it without access to the PHP files and the database tables.