ComicPress 2.9.4 is the update to the theme that corresponds to making it compatible with WordPress 3.4 – This also means that 2.9.4 of ComicPress will *NOT* work with older versions of WordPress prior to WordPress 3.4 when it is released.

WordPress 3.4 has not been released as of today’s date but will be along shortly, then this theme will be uploaded to the repository.

You MUST upgrade WordPress to 3.4 before upgrading to the 2.9.4 release of ComicPress

- Phil

Last year, my son’s mother came back into my son’s life.   I contacted her and found that she has been living in a car with a guy and digging through trash, recycling etc to stay alive.   She was strung out on drugs, heroin and other things.   I spent a lot of time helping her out, to help get her feet back up.   Went with her to her court dates and did everything I could so that my son can have his mother in his life.

At the end of last year I got to the point in my own sickness where I was debilitated a better part of 5 months I couldn’t do anything.    I probably would not be alive if it were not for the extraordinary Doctors who did above and beyond to make sure that I would continue to exist . <3 you guys.  I am sorry if I cannot tell you more about it but it was life threatening and I am not looking for any sympathy for it.  It was my fault I got sick, no it had nothing to do with taking any drugs – I’ve been clean my entire life; heck I don’t even drink.

To add insult to injury while I was getting fixed up my car was stolen, by a 17 year old Hispanic kid who totaled it.   I went to the court appearance for him and he got 9 months for it in a juvenile camp.  That doesn’t mean I am getting help to get my car back,  just means justice was served – for him.  I now have to save up everything I can to get a new car.   April 1st thanks to my Aunt who lent me the money I was able to buy a new car, got it for $1900.   Of course there turned out to be some issues with it, have to replace the tires and fix some cam shaft thing, no idea bout cars.

Recently, my son’s mother who in my opinion was doing incredibly better; I found indeed wasn’t.   She had taken all my savings without me knowing it and went and used again.   Yesterday she was picked up and taken to jail where she will be doing a few years.   My son is devastated, I’m extremely hurt and disappointed.   It wasn’t until this morning that I found out that she’s been using for a very long time.   Her current boyfriend told me everything when I called him to tell him she was in jail.

I was blind.   I wanted to see the best in her for my son’s sake.   When she was here helping him, doing things to help with the household I felt confident everything was ok.  I just needed it.   I needed the friend in my life like that and I was blind.   I didn’t want to believe money disappeared the way it did.  I wanted to believe it went to buying things for the home.   I was completely oblivious to it all.

Today.  I found out the truth.  I need to now find work again, to cover the bills to be paid.   If you know of anyone that needs any web based work done, sites designed/cleaned up; worked on.  Custom coding.   Anything, please contact me.

For the next couple of days or so I am going to be working on updating ComicPress to be compatible with the latest WordPress.   I know people have been wanting that.

- Phil

Today also I wonder who the heck up there hates me so much.  My son’s ROBLOX account was hacked and he lost everything.   Thanks to the customer service team with ROBLOX he got his account back but people had already taken everything script wise that he created and equipment and such.    He’s talking about suicide – I have no idea what to do or who to call for help for him.

Along with the new default design it has a bunch of logic changes so that ‘external’ post type plugins can be utilized without too much difficulty.

- Phil

EDIT:  Easel (comicpress light portion) has a bunch of new code incorporated from Comic Easel into it, including Locations and Characters (removed tags) – also the comicpress thumbnail widget is added to it and more.

With the plugin: Theme Companion  open it up and click on the  [Add HTML code to the <head> area] – When you are in that area to edit add this line:

<meta property=”og:image” content=”http://urlpathtoimage.tld/image.jpg” />

In this case it’s:

<meta property=”og:image” content=”http://frumph.net/images/header/frumph.png” />

Where http://frumph.net/images/header/frumph.png (the urlpathtoimage) points to an image that I want to use for facebook to recognize.

And that’s it, next time you post something to Facebook, the base image ^ the one you pointed to in the content= line will be used as the image for your feed on facebook.

- Phil

Changes

CSS - None

Code
Adjusted how the search and archive pages work to reduce memory load & count
fixed the language textdomain lines
changed how the .txt and .htm files are read in to pass the theme review
renamed functions/ipn.php to functions/ipn.txt, change it back to functions/ipn.php in order to utilize the IPN from paypal

If you would like to contribute a fullpage pinup by all means, please do.

- Phil

Posting is just like you would a regular blog post, but inside the post editor for that post is a place to ‘attach’ whatever comic (*or*) comics to the post itself.

You can create as many different comic chapters as you want, each one is its own ‘comic’ so to speak, so you can have as many comics as you want.  They all navigate entirely within themselves.

You can keep track of what the characters are in each comic as well as what location they are in as well.   It will archive and show individually say every comic that was shown at the science facility for example.

Since comics are ‘attached’ to the post itself and not by the ‘date’ of the comic, you can have unlimited comics uploaded per day, unlimited comic storylines as well posted per day and pretty much unlimited comics per post too!

- Phil

Changes

Css:
none

Code:
Optimized the archive and search to not do extra loops, which saves memory.
Added option for archive display order in the easel options
did something to breadcrumbs but it’s been so long I don’t remember ;/

Download Easel 2.0.7 and test it out for me.

There’s another way of handling the advertisement boxes like Techonorati and Google adsense and others that take forever to load.   That is by putting them into an iframe and loading the code from a file on your machine.

Create a file on your hosting, say in the root directory of your hosting; call it something like adbox.html

Put your advertisement code into it, like this example:

<!-- BEGIN UAT - 728x90 - YourComic: YourComic - DO NOT MODIFY --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ad-cdn.technoratimedia.com/??/??/??/uat_????.js?ad_size=728x90"></script> <!-- END TAG -->

^ That is an example of a technorati ad code, you place that inside of the adbox.html file in the root directory of your site.

Then let’s place the html code inside of the text widget where you original had the advertisement.

<iframe src="http://yourcomic.com/adbox.html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="padding: 0px; border-style: none; width: 736px; height: 100px; overflow: hidden;"></iframe>

The above iframe will ‘allocate’ space on your website and letting the rest of your site display and load, and itself load the advertisement form the adbox.html into the space that was allocated for it. Leaving no undesired page-pause while it loads.

- Phil

function comicpress_display_post_time() { return ''; }

What this does is ‘override’ the post time function and returns empty information instead of posting the time that the post was created.

- Phil