How Do I Change the Appearance of the Administrators Comment?

Do you mean author, or admin?

Author as in, the author of a post…. or the main admin account?

A well written theme will already be using the necessary CSS classes, so it’s a matter of writing it into the stylesheet.

A link to your website would be most helpful. ??

Yes the author and yes I have a stylesheet and the link to my site is https://www.outraved.com thanks ??

Does your theme have a comments.php?

Could you please post the code from the file inside backticks or use a pastebin and post the link..
https://wordpress.pastebin.com/

yes…bout to post

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/m211177bf

Backup the comments file, then find this…

<ol class="commentlist">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

	<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">

<div class="commentmetadata">
<strong><?php comment_author_link() ?></strong>, <?php _e('on'); ?> <a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> <?php _e('at');?> <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php _e('Said:'); ?> <?php edit_comment_link('Edit Comment','',''); ?>
 		<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
		<em><?php _e('Your comment is awaiting moderation.'); ?></em>
 		<?php endif; ?>
</div>

<?php comment_text() ?>
	</li>

<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
	if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = '';
	else $oddcomment = 'alt';
?>

<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
	</ol>

And replace that with…

<ol class="commentlist">
	<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
	</ol>

See how that works first, then we can work on the CSS…

didnt work i got

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_list_comments() on line 24

Sorry that’s my fault i assumed you were on 2.7 …

Considered upgrading?

You can get the post author id using..

$post->post_author

This would give you the ID of the author, if you can find a comment_author_id type function to compare that with then it’s possible..

hmmm maybe i should upgrade real quick then do what u said about replacing the file…this seems so complicated ??

Just follow the instructions to the letter, and it’s easy as pie…

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrading_WordPress

If you have any special plugins enabled, i’d suggest as a general rule to disable them while upgrading…

Thank you alot for your help Ive decided to just use gravatars to distinguish each other. I still need to upgrade my wordpress also so I will use your advice…thank you!!! ??

Can you apply a class to the comment if the comment author has a particular role in the site (e.g. Editor)? At the moment I have one users details hardwired in the comments.php code so if the comment is from them a class of admin is added. but it would be great to have a group of people – even better if it were against a user id, rather than a hackable name and email!

Here’s the relevant bit from what I’m using at the moment:

<?php $author = array(
            "highlight" => "admin",
            "email" => "[email protected]",
            "name" => "Webmaster"
    );  

<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" class="<?php
        /* Highlighting class for author or regular striping class for others */
        /* Get current author name/e-mail */
        $this_name = $comment->comment_author;
        $this_email = $comment->comment_author_email; 

        /* Compare to $author array values */
        if (strcasecmp($this_name, $author["name"])==0 && strcasecmp($this_email, $author["email"])==0)
            _e($author["highlight"]);
        else
            _e($thiscomment);  

        ?>"> 

?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated!