Paste the following code in your theme’s functions.php file.

[php]
function hls_set_query() {
$query = attribute_escape(get_search_query());
if(strlen($query) > 0){
echo ‘
<script type="text/javascript">
var hls_query = "’.$query.’";
</script>
‘;
}
}
function hls_init_jquery() {
wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’);
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘hls_init_jquery’);
add_action(‘wp_print_scripts’, ‘hls_set_query’);
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After that you need to open your theme’s header.php and paste the following code before the < /head > tag.

[php]
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
.hls { background: #D3E18A; } /* <- Change the CSS style of */
/* highlighted texts here. */
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.fn.extend({
highlight: function(search, insensitive, hls_class){
var regex = new RegExp("(<[^>]*>)|(\\b" search.replace(/([-.* ?^${}()|[\]\/\\])/g,"\\$1") ")", insensitive ? "ig" : "g");
return this.html(this.html().replace(regex, function(a, b, c){
return (a.charAt(0) == "<") ? a : "<strong class=\"" hsl_class "\">" c "</strong>";
}));
}
});
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
if(typeof(hls_query) != ‘undefined’){
$("#post-area").highlight(hls_query, 1, "hls"); // <- Change ‘post-area’ to ID of HTML tag you
// want to highlight search terms in.
}
});
</script>
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Make sure you change “post-area” in the code to the HTML tag ID of the area you want your search terms highlighted. You can also change the way the highlighted text look by changing the CSS properties of the “.hls” class.

[php]
<div class="breadcrumbs">

<?php

function breadcrumbs() {

$theFullUrl = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

$urlArray=explode("/",$theFullUrl);
echo ‘You Are Here: <a href="/">Home</a>’;

while (list($j,$text) = each($urlArray)) {
$dir=";
if ($j > 1) {
$i=1;
while ($i < $j) {
$dir .= ‘/’ . $urlArray[$i];
$text = $urlArray[$i];
$i++;
}
if($j < count($urlArray)-1) echo ‘ &raquo; <a href="’.$dir.’">’ . str_replace("-", " ", $text) . ‘</a>’;
}
}
echo wp_title();
}
breadcrumbs();
?>
</div>
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To include Breadcrumbs in your theme simply place the following where you need them:

[php]
<?php include ( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/breadcrumbs.php’); ?>
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You can do the same by creating a function in your functions.php file and then calling the function in your theme.

Using the css class “breadcrumbs” you can style the results to easily blend in with your current theme.

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As the author you really want the readers to have an easy way to know exactly when and where your responses are so you decide to find a quick and easy solution. Why not just give your comments a different background color? I will show you how to highlight author comments in your WordPress blog. This is a lot easier than you think because at WPSwitch we are never gonna let you down. Here is a quick and super simple solution to make your replies stand out from the rest.

First you need to open your style.css (or whatever your stylesheet is named) in your template folder and add the following css:

[php]
.authorstyle { background-color: #B3FFCC !important; }
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Once you have that all done just open your comments.php which is also located in your themes folder and find the line of code that looks a bit like this:

[php]
<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>"></li>
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Now replace it with this sexy new code:

[php]
<li class="<?php if ($comment->user_id == 1) $oddcomment = "authorstyle"; echo $oddcomment; ?>"></li>
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Wait! Before you wrap it all up you must change 1 to the user id of the author. Once you do this, your blog comments will have a different style for the author’s comment compared to the rest. You can simply change the background color with the css or do something really crazy like putting a gold star next to your picture. Or don’t..whatever.

Are you the lazy type? If you are then maybe you should try the Highlight Author Comments WordPress plugin by Rob Marsh. Just upload and activate.

Highlight Author Comments automatically displays comments made by a post’s author in a distinctive style with no need to edit your template files, etc. All you do is provide a snippet or two of CSS styling to be applied to author posts.

.thank {Matt Cutts for this little trick.}

Tom Johnson of I’d Rather Be Writing walks you through the simple process in this CSS-based tutorial.

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