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These are the highlights of the changelog for ComicPress 2.9.2.28

Comic Archive – display as links list

The comic archive if you are displaying per category or by date you can have it display as just the links to those comics instead of comic thumbnails or full posts.

Facebook Like & Meta

There is now a facebook like addition to the addons which adds the facebook like button at the bottom of posts. Additionally there is facebook Meta available so that whatever facebook like plugin (or the one integrated) can find the right information for your comic including the thumbnail for the comic. This is in testing, report if there are any issues.  There is also a widget that can be placed around the comic area and CSS’d / positioned how you would want it.

Dual Posting Blog

The dual posting blog can now be setup to follow the comic properly.   If you disable the comic blog post and enable the appropriate options the dual blog post section where you assign individual columns per posting user (good for artist and writer type situations) it will appropriately follow the date the comic is posted on.

WP-Supercache & ?randomcomic

Fixed the random button in the Comic Navigation widget so that it has nocache=1 as well so that it doesn’t get cached.

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

You can now store your comics on a content delivery network.   How this works is it behaves as normal where you upload your comics per usual, it creates thumbnails yada yada yada and when its time to deliver the comic to the end user, what happens is it will ‘fetch’ the comic from the CDN instead of your own site/host.    Bandwidth saver for larger output sites.

Menubar Social Media buttons

The menubar has a new action area where you can inject social media buttons, read this post here: http://frumph.net/wordpress/how-to-add-social-media-icons-to-the-menubar-w-the-comicpress-and-easel-themes/ on how to utilize it.

Comic Blog Post widget

The comic blog post widget has been revamped to have a couple new options.  The comic blog post widget is so that if  you want your comic’s post to appear inside one of the comic blog posts it can/not to mention any other sidebar on the site.   Greater versatility for site design.

CSS Changes

• Fixed the hovertext CSS for rascal coding so it doesnt look out of place.  Those using rascal will have to see whats going on and change if neccessary.
• Added .facebook-like CSS code to handle the integrated facebook like
• I changed something someplace and forgot to write it down ;/ sooo, yeah sorry.  If anyone finds it tell me.

Note: it was released with a bug for the .facebook-like code, here’s what its supposed to look like:

.facebook_like, .facebook-like {
	display: inline-block;
}

Custom Header

The custom header code has been revamped.   It is no longer a triggered addon but a constant now.   If you use it or not it’s available in the appearance menu.

Comic “Lightbox” support

Comic’s now have lightbox support, this is basically if you have a too large (full page spread) but ComicPress compresses it visually to appear in the provided space, when a user clicks on the comic it will expand out to full size.   The cool thing about his is also the ability to handle multiple comics per day with the lightbox navigation. (enable the jquery multi comic support in the comicpress options for that).

As always report to me if you find any bugs.

- Phil