After creating App after App though, it becomes a very tedious task. I’ve searched far and wide online and couldn’t find anything that pointed me to how to change it. I did manage to find information on how to change it for developing Mac Desktop Applications. Didn’t really help my case too much.

In any case, what you’re looking for is in the directory path:
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates/Application

In there, you’ll find directories for each type of iPhone Application template that you can create from Xcode.

• Navigation-Based Application
• OpenGL ES Application
• Tab Bar Application
• Utility Application
• View-Based Application
• Window-Based Application

In each directory, there is a file called: Info.plist
Here you can change your default Bundle Identifier by finding the Key String pair.

	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.yourcompany.${PRODUCT_NAME:identifier}</string>

Simply change yourcompany to your new default save. Once you’ve done that. Any new iPhone App you create from Xcode’s iPhone Application templates will be pre-filled with your new identifier.

Much easier than fixing it for each new iPhone App you make. Hope this helps!

The CSS

a[rel="external"], a.external {
white-space: nowrap;
padding-right: 15px;
background: url(/images/external.gif) no-repeat 100% 50%;
zoom: 1;
}

The HTML
To use the CSS, you would add the rel="external" to your html link like so:

<a href="https://www.google.com" rel="external" target="_blank">External link</a>

The Result
Here’s what the final result looks like after using the CSS and HTML. (This is an image! Not a real link.)

Do you do this differently? Have a better solution? Please feel free share thoughts, feedback and comments.

Disqus is a wonderful commenting system. I was introduced to it by reading Louis Gray’s blog from FriendFeed. Since using Disqus, I have found it to be a very great network. Disqus provides many features including:

• Threaded comments and comment ratings
• moderation and admin tools
• spam filters

There are tons of WordPress comment hacks to do custom CSS styling for Author’s comments. I have listed some at the bottom of the post. There’s even plug-ins that will style author comments. Unfortunately, Disqus does not offer up any solution to this. And after posting on the Disqus forums, I got no response for this feature. But, Disqus does offer some Custom CSS for comments.

Out of the Box

Disqus actually does give us quite a bit of customization options. We are able to customize:

• The box where a post is typed into
• The form elements (Name, Email, Website).
• The submit button “Post”.
• The main wrapper for the comment system.
• “Add New Comment” and “# Comments” are enclosed in <h3> tags.
• The toggle button for the thread options.
• The links within the thread Options
• The entire comment thread list.
• A single comment in the thread.
• The comment rating arrows for posts.
• The header at the top of comment posts.
• The avatar image for the registered user.
• This is the meta information about the post (time stamp and points).
• The message body of a single comment post.
• The footer contains the link to “reply.”
• This contains and determines the style for the pagination links.

The Problem

As you can see, this is a lot of customizing power. Unfortunately, none of them is related to the blog post’s author.

The Solution: Hack the Planet!

We are going to modify the official Disqus WordPress Plug-in. The files being modified are: comments.php and disqus.php Note: We are also making the assumption that authors will use the same e-mail address to write posts and comments. This is generally true for most users.

Identifying the Post Author

First we need to find the post’s author. We could just hardcode the email address, but this does not help multi-author websites. To find the author’s email address we need to go into diqus.php

Inside disqus.php there is a function called: dsq_comments_template
Here we are going to add a global variable called $author_email and set it to $author_email = get_the_author_email();

Here’s the full function code:

function dsq_comments_template($value) {
global $dsq_response;
global $dsq_sort;
global $dsq_api;
global $post;
global $author_email; // Added by John Wang

if ( ! (is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) ) {
return;
}

if ( !dsq_can_replace() ) {
return $value;
}

if ( dsq_legacy_mode() ) {
return dirname(__FILE__) . '/comments-legacy.php';
}

$author_email = get_the_author_email(); // Added by John Wang

$permalink = get_permalink();
$title = get_the_title();
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();

$dsq_sort = get_option('disqus_sort');
if ( is_numeric($_COOKIE['disqus_sort']) ) {
$dsq_sort = $_COOKIE['disqus_sort'];
}
if ( is_numeric($_GET['dsq_sort']) ) {
setcookie('disqus_sort', $_GET['dsq_sort']);
$dsq_sort = $_GET['dsq_sort'];
}

// Call "get_thread" API method.
$dsq_response = $dsq_api->get_thread($post, $permalink, $title, $excerpt);
if( $dsq_response < 0 ) {
return false;
}
// Sync comments with database.
dsq_sync_comments($post, $dsq_response['posts']);

// TODO: If a disqus-comments.php is found in the current template's
// path, use that instead of the default bundled comments.php
//return TEMPLATEPATH . '/disqus-comments.php';

return dirname(__FILE__) . '/comments.php';

}

Identifying the Author’s Comments

Now we know the blog post’s author. Off to comments.php
Inside of comments.php, the first thing we need to do is add $author_email to the list of globals.

<?phpglobal $dsq_response, $dsq_sort,$author_email; // Added author_email variable!
$site_url = get_option('siteurl');
?>

Once that’s done, we need to find the comments and figure out if any of the comments were written by the post author. To do this, we’ll be using the Disqus array $comment['user']['email']. This gives us the current comment’s author’s email address. We’ll be comparing that to our global variable $author_email.  On line 131 of comments.php we add the PHP if condition: if ($comment['user']['email'] == $author_email ).The complete line now looks like this:

<div class="dsq-comment-body <?php if ($comment['user']['email'] == $author_email ) echo ("-author\"")?> ">

The same change can be made for the class dsq-comment-header on line 82, dsq-header-avatar on line 83, and dsq-comment-footer on line 154.

It’s Styling Time!

Styling author’s comments

Here’s the easy part. All you need to do now is add the CSS code to your WordPress Theme for the appropriate classes. For example. This would change the background color for the author’s comment.

/*    Disqus CSS for Author Comments. Margin and Padding is set to be the same as other comments    */
#dsq-content #dsq-comments .dsq-comment-body-author {
	margin-left: 20px;
	padding-top: 5px;
	background: #e2fddc;

The Results

Here’s what an author’s comment would look like now with a reader’s comment.

Download the complete modified plug-in..

Further Reading:

• Weekend Tip: Author Comment Styling In WordPress – NETTUTS
• How-to style WordPress author comments – Derek Punsalan – 5ThirtyOne
• WordPress How-To: Styling Author Comments | Spoonfed Design
• DISQUS | Custom CSS

Do you style your author’s comments? Do you use something other than Disqus? Any feedback?

Update from Disqus.com

• 

Daniel Ha (danielha)

@jwang392 Cool writeup – we also have a special class for authors as .special or .dsq-moderator that you can do this with

Daniel Ha (danielha)

@jwang392 so you can do: .dsq-comment.special .dsq-comment-body { background: #e2fddc; }

DesignBump

1. Save the icon: and copy it to sociable/images/directory.
2. Open sociable.php.
3. Find the array called $sociable_known_sites.
4. Copy / paste the code below

    'Design Bump' => Array(
   'favicon' => 'designbump.png',
   'url' => 'https://designbump.com/node/add/drigg?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE',
   ),

5. Save the file.

Vot.eti.me

1. Save the icon: and copy it to sociable/images/directory.
2. Open sociable.php.
3. Find the array called $sociable_known_sites.
4. Copy / paste the code below:

    'Votetime' => Array(
   'favicon' => 'votetime.gif',
   'url' => 'https://vot.eti.me/login.php?return=/submit.php?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE',
   ), 

5. Save the file.

FriendFeed

1. Save the icon: and copy it to sociable/images/directory.
2. Open sociable.php.
3. Find the array called $sociable_known_sites.
4. Copy / paste the code below:

    'FriendFeed' => Array(
   'favicon' => 'friendfeed.png',
   'url' => 'https://friendfeed.com/?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE',
   ), 

5. Save the file and reactivate the plug-in.

Results

This is what the finished version looks like with the 2 services enabled through Sociable Options.

And working version of the icons are used in this website. See below for an example.

Final Thoughts

I have also submitted the code to Joost de Valk,the author of the Sociable Plug-in, in hopes that he adds them for everyone’s use.

Download the complete code here