What you get for the $25? You get your own child theme made out of your current site design so that the original ComicPress can be upgraded at anytime and your site will retain all of it’s current look and feel in the child theme.

There are limited # of people that I can work on each day so make sure that you contact me at philip@frumph.net right away if you’re interested in an upgrade.

If you’re interested in more work done then a basic upgrade you can look at my Hire Me page for rates.
- Phil (Frumph)

Add these lines:

// Tell wordpress to enable error reporting
define('WP_DEBUG', 1);
// Do *not* display errors to the screen
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', 0);
// Tell wordpress to create a log file
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', 1);
// Tell wordpress we don't want the extra info
define('E_DEPRECATED', 1);

Next step is to tell WordPress to ‘avoid’ giving you all the damn notices you might be getting. Edit the wp-settings.php file that is in the root of the wordpress installation.

Search for:

	if ( defined('E_DEPRECATED') )
		error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT);

and replace the error_reporting line with this:

		error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT & ~E_NOTICE);

This will tell the debug.log to not record anything that’s deprecated strict or notices.

Once you do this, if any errors occur you will find in the wp-content directory a file called debug.log, then you can look at that log for what the error is and fix it. (or tell someone who can fix it).

/wp-content/debug.log

- Phil (Frumph)

Rob Lopez is the creator of Forsaken Stars (NSFW)

At the end of Nov. 2009 Danny Burleson joined us in helping with revamps of various config sections.  Welcome Danny!  We’ll get you up to speed with adding features in no time.

Changes since 2.8

• Child Themes
• ComicPress Silver is now a child theme and the main ComicPress theme has barebones CSS
• Additional Child Themes are available on comicpresspremium.com
• ComicPress Options Revamp, 25+ new configuration options.
• 3 new layouts.
• A  complete overhaul of the innerds of the ComicPress Options variables and how they work inside the code.
• Several new ComicPress Widgets and some very important cleanups as well as new functionality.
• Navigation has been cleaned up and enhanced, you can now walk chapters as well as dates.
• Default navigation is reverted to a text-version.
• ComicPress Archive Dropdown widget has a bunch of new options inside the widget.
• Language Translation is available for all facets of hardcoded text.
• Can now separate the blog posts to 2 distinct authors.
• BuyPrint code and template cleaned up and fixed from the additional shipping problems with a flag in the options.
• Option for keeping the blog posts to stay on the archive pages, (best to use with comments off).  Additionally you can configure it to show all the blogposts between the comic from the current to the next.
• Avatars, you can specify a set of avatars for your commenters who do not have gravatars.
• A whole suite of debugging code to verify your ComicPress installation and if it’s installed correctly.
• The displaying of the comics in a comic category from the archive has been modified output-wise to be mini-thumbed.
• An extensive new set of body classes are available that include the time of day, week, layout, member and more.
• WordPress 2.9 thumbnail code is implemented, have fun playing with that for each post!
• Overhall of all the Templates and including a new This Month of Comics template.
• Over 5 various different bug fixes from 2.8
• CSS was revamped to allow a variety of different head & foot’s and additional CSS able areas.

Not quite an extensive a list that came around from 2.7 to 2.8 however the backend was heavily modified to the point where it’s not even close to the same code. (beware you modders out there).

There’s a bit of logic used in the menubar area of the site design. First it defaults with the default menubar turned on and active.  Like all of the sidebar’s #sidebar-menubar will not show unless there’s a widget inside of it.

You can disable the default menubar in the ComicPress Options, this will let you not have it appear if you wish to use the ComicPress Menubar widget and place the menubar in any sidebar area on the side.

#menubar itself has just two unique areas inside of it.

#menubar {
     #menunav {}
     #menu {}
}

The #menunav area contains the min-navigation, button for RSS and the search box if enabled, while the #menu area contains the home button, dynamically generated menu options based on the pages you create and the possibility of other menubar items if you created a links category called menubar and added links into it.

This area of the site code is a bit tricky. Sure you have the standard CSS that goes with it. First there’s no default height or width in the header and the generic height is dependant on the page title – tagline.

#header {}
	#header h1 a {}
	#header .description {}

If the Plugin Wonderful plugin is active and you set one of your ads as ‘header’ then it will open up another CSS element.

	#header .headerpwad {}

Also if you decide to put anything into the Header sidebar area it will open up another css element inside of #header. Which doesn’t have any default styling.

#sidebar-header {}

[member]

Companion / Child Theme Tips
There are several ways of adding an image to the background of the header, the simplest way is with CSS. This will place a background image behind the h1 a, and .description text that appears.

#header {
	background: url('http://path/to/image.ext') top center no-repeat;
	width: 980px;	/* width of your #page or #page-wide - stay consistant*/
	height: 80px;	/* height of your background image */
}

Just because this is the easiest, it doesn't mean it's the best. Most users want to create their own click able back to home header without the default h1 a, .description text on top of it. This bit of code will do that. What this CSS says is set the background into the #header space. Remove the padding from H1, set the H1 A to a block encompassing the height and width of the header and overlay it on top of #header and throw the text for it off the screen and just don't display the .description at all. Because the h1 a is still active and the text is just thrown off the screen and it's set to the height and width of the background if you click anywhere in it, it will return you to the home page.

#header {
	width: 980px;
	height: 80px;
	background: url('http://path/to/image.ext') top center no-repeat;
}

	#header h1 {
		padding: 0;  /* Remove the padding from the h1 */
	}

	#header h1 a {
			display: block;
			width: 980px;
			height: 120px;
			text-indent: -9999px;
	}

	#header .description { display: none; }

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