[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27944: Allow Native Styling of Comment Authors' Names in the .widget_recent_comments Widget

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#27944: Allow Native Styling of Comment Authors' Names in the
.widget_recent_comments Widget
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 Reporter:  EMG                         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                      |   Milestone:  4.0
Component:  Widgets                     |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch good-first-bug  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by EMG):

 Replying to [comment:3 ocean90]:
 > I propose is to use `<span class="comment-author"></span>` here. The
 cite element is not the correct element for this, see #24522 for
 background.

 In working with theme development from the ground up and using nothing but
 WordPress' own natively outputted widgets, I also noticed that the
 `.widget_rss` also outputs the author's name of an RSSed
 post/article/whatever wrapped in the `<cite>` tag as opposed to your
 suggested `<span class="comment-author">`.

 As such, I created #28188 to address this issue. :)

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