* This varies depending on your theme, this is commonly used in a normal wordpress blog layout.

1. Go to admin dashoard > manage > categories. Look for the category you want to exclude and identify the category ID. e.g. we want to hide category ID: 8.
2. Still in the admin dashboard > go to Presentation > Theme Editor > open *index.php
3. Inside the *index.php file, look for the line that says “<?php if (have_posts()) : ?> ”
   then paste this code after that line:
   ! don’t forget to change the id to your chosen category id

   <?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("cat=-8&paged=$page"); ?>

   and before this code. “ <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> “

4. Then Update your *index.php file.

To start of, we are going to edit your comments.php and style.css. If you are a WordPress user definitely you know what I’m talking about. For newbies,Here’s an easy way to access your site. go to admin panel> presentation> theme editor> then just click the you want to change.

Let’s begin.

1. Open the comments.php within that file. Search for the code that read as

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class=”<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>” id=”comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”

Remove the second line and change it using the code below. Don’t forget to modify the ones that are marked red.

<li class=”<?php if ($comment->comment_author == ‘TYPE AUTHOR’S NAME‘ &&
$comment->comment_author_email == ‘TYPE AUTHOR’S EMAIL ADDRESS‘) echo ‘authorcomment’;
else echo $oddcomment; ?>” id=”comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”>

After you update your comments.php, we will add styles to it. Open your style.css, we are going to design the class for “authorcomment“. Look on comments section and add this code.

.authorcomment {
background: #666666;
}

This code varies on how your theme was made. Analyze the code but once you understand the principle you can apply it in your theme.

Below are some samples I found in the blogosphere.

- used to be from carlocab.com. It changed after replacing a new theme.

- from shoemoney.com

- from johncow.com

You want to learn how they did it?

With these 3 easy steps you can come-up with your own style.

1. Open your index.php and/or single.php.

2. Edit each page and look for the lines that read.

< ?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

3. Change the way you want them to appear in your page. Style your own comments by changing only the one on red marks.

< ?php comments_popup_link('Leave a comment »', '1 Comment - Want to Join Him? »', '% Comments - Want to Join Them? »'); ?>

How about you? What’s your style? Care to share?