XF 1.3 How to make thread starter/author posts stand out?

[Alpha1]

Many of my forums are support journals, where the thread starter/author posts their daily experience and other members offer support. The thread starter post are therefore the main content while the posts by other members are basically comments.

Is there a way to have different styling to the thread starter's posts to make these stand out more?

What I am thinking about it to add a background colour or border for the author's posts, while removing various postbit and styling elements from the posts by other members. Is this possible? How is this done?
I could not find any addons for this.
Suggestions and other ideas are very welcome.

 

[Paul B]

You can use this conditional statement: <xen:if is="{$post.user_id} == {$thread.user_id}">

You would need to combine that with template edits and CSS to achieve the result you want.

 

[Null]

Wouldn't something like this work?

I'm not sure if it'll work with 1.3, but I'm sure if it doesn't, it'll only require minor CSS edits.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/threadstarter-ribbon.2274/.

 

[Alpha1]

Wouldn't something like this work?

I'm not sure if it'll work with 1.3, but I'm sure if it doesn't, it'll only require minor CSS edits.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/threadstarter-ribbon.2274/.

That's not enough emphasis. Its the same principle, but does not affect the post styling. Only the avatar.

 

[Alpha1]

You can use this conditional statement: <xen:if is="{$post.user_id} == {$thread.user_id}">

You would need to combine that with template edits and CSS to achieve the result you want.

What would that conditional be if I want to apply it only to specific nodes?

 

[Paul B]

<xen:if is="in_array({$forum.node_id}, array(x, y, z)) AND {$post.user_id} == {$thread.user_id}">

 

[Alpha1]

So I guess I should apply two custom classes (author_class and comment_class) to posts (with the above conditional) and add the css properties to extra.css?

 

[Paul B]

Yes, there are various ways of doing it but using classes, rather than inline styling, is the way to go.

It's all a bit manic at the moment but I can look at knocking something up for you later when I get a chance.