The hack is still useful if you want to add some text to the comment information depending on the author.
On my theme I have “Author comment” or “Admin comment” displayed before the user name.

However, if you only want to change background colours or whatever, your way is the better.

<q cite="<li id=”comment-”>

:

comment_approved == ‘0′) : ?>
Your comment is awaiting moderation.

at
“>


<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php if (!empty($comment->user_id)
&& get_userdata($comment->user_id)->wp_user_level == '10') : ?>
<div class="admin_item entry">
<?php elseif ( $comment->user_id == $post->post_author) : ?>
<div class="auth_item entry">
<?php else : // comments user_id != post_author ?>
<div class="item entry">
<?php endif; ?>


And then create “.auth_item” and “.admin_item” variations of the “.item” class.
Solo mi dos colones.

I have a problem with comments in wordpress. I want to align the author and the date in the comments like in your blog.

For ex :
Goonpay 28 Août 2009 à 12h30

How can i do this ?

This is all I had to add to my style.css to achieve the same effect:


.bypostauthor {
background-color: #E7F8FB !important;
}


if ( get_the_author_meta(“ID”) == $comment->user_id)