These are the highlights of 2.9.2.30
- Remember EVERY time you upgrade you need to set the blog and comic categories in the comicpress manager or directly editing the comicpress-config.php file.
Important Info for Child Themes
- layout-head.php and layout-foot.php have been modified quite a bit – enough for you to replace them and rework them in your child themes if you have them in your child themes.
- A bunch of new layouts. Make sure when you upgrade to reset your layout if you need to. NOTE: Go to the comicpress options on the layout page and click ‘save’ again.
- Due to the new layouts, some layout names were changed, check your CSS and put in the new layout name if need to, can see the layout name in the <body class=”layout-<name>”>
CSS Change
#pagewrap-right, #pagewrap-left has changed to #section-wrap
Archive / Search amount to display
This is handled exclusively by the wp-admin – settings – reading now. If you want to display more or less amount of images / results you would change the value there.
Remove Page Restraint option
The remove the page restraint option has been removed completely, it no longer exists, instead you use CSS with #page, #page-wide { width: auto; }
Design elements -foot and -head
The html / dom elements for -foot and -head if you use any CSS that utilizes those, you will need to enable the option on the layout options page. Otherwise they are now disabled by default. This increases the page display time by not having theme enabled unless you use them.
New Option
Display first comic on the home page. This option will make it so you can set the first comic in the entire series to be the first thing people see when they come to your site.
New Behavior
If you disable the blog on the home page, allow comments to be displayed on comic posts on home page if comic post is shown. I.e. comments will display on the home page if you disable the blog loop on the home page.
Internationalization/Localization
Default.mo and default.po files have been updated for sites to be translated into other languages.
ISSUE/DEBUG FAQ
Some people have reported needing to not only set their comic and blog categories but also clicking the ‘reset’ button in the comicpress options to reset their options as well – this is probably due to options array changing with the new options, don’t know but more then likely.
I just updated and my comic and my sidebars seem to have disappeared. At least, from my homepage. I went and found the line where it says I need to set my comic and blog categories, but that seems fine.
What am I doing wrong?
Holy Crap. I guess I “fixed” it but I have no clue what I did. I just went back into the Comic Press options and mucked about. Man… that was terrifying, because I don’t really know what I’m doing here.
Basically it boiled down to you needing to ‘set the layout’ again since they were changed this latest version. Just saving on the layout page probably did it.