It’s either that or I take the Easel theme and move ComicPress into it ;/ ONE OR THE OTHER! Which one would you rather have? .. seriously, need to know.

- Phil

Additionally do you think we should retire ComicPress altogether in favor of the better Comic Management Systems that are available?

This code will only replace “default” avatars, not ones that people have made at gravatar.com.

The ComicPress and Easel themes already have this, this is a code snippet for ‘other’ themes.

This is not code for someone who is completely new to PHP and WordPress coding.

Include this into your functions.php file of your main theme you use, not the child theme. You will have to add it again if your theme updates. This is meant for theme author’s to include it in their themes on updates.

function frumph_random_default_avatar_callback( $id_or_email = '' ) {
	if (!empty($id_or_email)) {
		$count = count($results = glob(get_stylesheet_directory() . '/images/avatars/*'));
		if ($count) { 
			$checknum = hexdec(substr(md5($id_or_email),0,5)) % $count;
			if ($count > 0) {
				$custom_avatar = basename($results[(int)$checknum]); 
				$replace_src_avatar = get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/images/avatars/'.$custom_avatar;
				return $replace_src_avatar;
			}
		} else
			return get_option('avatar_default');
	} else
		return get_option('avatar_default');
}

THEN, you need to modify your get_avatar call in your theme (if your theme has it), this code is if your theme HAS a call to the get_avatar function.

What you do is you search for the function ‘get_avatar’ within the theme you are using, for example the thematic theme in the library/extensions/ has a file called ‘comments-extensions’ inside of it and the line with get_avatar looks like this:

$avatar = str_replace( "class='avatar", "class='photo avatar", get_avatar( $avatar_email, $avatar_size ) );

You want to modify the get_avatar function in it, the 3rd position is the the reference to the ‘default’ image, right after size, you will pass the email of the commenter to the function.

$avatar = str_replace( "class='avatar", "class='photo avatar", get_avatar( $avatar_email, $avatar_size, frumph_random_default_avatar_callback($avatar_email) ) );

In the twentytwelve theme, it’s in the content*.php files, looks something like this:

<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), apply_filters( 'twentytwelve_author_bio_avatar_size', 68 ) ); ?>

You modify it to add the 3rd argument which changes the default image that it uses, with my code you also pass the email of the commenter in the function.

<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), apply_filters( 'twentytwelve_author_bio_avatar_size', 68 ), frumph_random_default_avatar_callback(get_the_author_meta('user_email')) ); ?>

THEN
Add your images into the theme (or child theme’s) images/avatars/ directory so wp-content/themes/mychildtheme/images/avatars/ directory.

The reason I use get_stylesheet_directory is so that the images are retained in the child theme and if the child theme doesn’t exist the end user can put them in their main theme, but checks child theme first.

- Phil

Basically it removes an extra loop which wasn’t needed.

content-aside.php content.php content-comic.php content-page.php   basically each ‘content type’ has their own php file (which is basically html), this will allow you to modify those ‘post areas’ display look and feel how you want them to in your child theme… basically copy the content- type file over to the child theme and hack away.  You can also create other ‘content’ types which are commented out in the functions.php like for images and video’s etc if you want specific looks for your post areas for whatever content type you want.

n/t

IN the post info area, to the left of the title, the thumbnail will now display all mini like, instead of above everything, looks keen.

in the default style I added some ‘look’ to the post info (the header of  each post) to denote it’s difference from the rest of the post.

opengraph = facebook – google, etc.

This one is very important to CSS skinners, #column no longer exists and it is now #content, so find-replace inside of your CSS file if you used it. This also paved the way to allow the use of Jetpack’s Infinite scrolling. Which allows people to keep scrolling down the page and new posts will pop up. (along with the post formats change)

NOTE edit the style.css, search for .post-image

.post-content .post-image {
	float: left;
	display: inline-block;
	padding: 3px 3px 0;
	border: solid 1px #ccc;
	margin: 4px;
}

.post-content .post-image img {
	width: 100px;
	height: auto;
}

Fixes the issue with 3.3 with the post image in the title

IF you have layout-head.php in your child theme, make sure to change the id=”column” to id=”content” inside of that .php file

Open up that file on your hosting and replace it with the code available here:

https://github.com/Frumph/comicpress/blob/master/functions/syndication.php

^ the github repo is where I store the latest of every edit I make, bug fixes and what not

If you are logged into github you can find a “zip” button to download the latest full master copy at http://github.com/Frumph/comicpress

Once you are done replacing that bit of code, you edit a post, save it which then updates your feed (clears your feed cache) then go to feedburner and click the resync button in your admin panel for feedburner

- Phil

NOTE: For older ComicPress versions, just replace this portion of the syndication.php file:

if (!function_exists('comicpress_insert_comic_feed')) {
	function comicpress_insert_comic_feed($content) {
		global $wp_query, $post;
		$category = get_the_category($post->ID);
		if (comicpress_in_comic_category($category[0]->cat_ID)) {
			$content = comicpress_comic_feed().$content;
		}
		return apply_filters('comicpress_insert_comic_feed', $content);
	}
}

add_filter('the_content_feed','comicpress_insert_comic_feed');
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss','comicpress_insert_comic_feed');

//Insert the comic image into the RSS feed
function comicpress_comic_feed() {
global $post, $comicpress_options; ?>
<p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php echo comicpress_display_comic_image('rss,comic',$comicpress_options['enable_post_thumbnail_rss']); ?></a></p><?php
}

With this:

//Insert the comic image into the RSS feed
function comicpress_comic_feed() {
global $post, $comicpress_options; ?>
return '<p><a href="'.get_permalink().'">'.comicpress_display_comic_image('rss,comic',$comicpress_options['enable_post_thumbnail_rss']).'</a></p>';
}

Again what you’re doing is ‘returning’ info instead of echo’ing it out.
P.S. change the add_action for the_content to the_content_feed and the_excerpt_rss like the top example, just not the function name after it

   echo "<p><a href=\"";
    the_permalink();
    echo "\"><img src=\"$siteurl/$filename\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cartoon 
thumbnail - ";
        the_title();
        echo " - CLICK for full cartoon\" /></a></p>";

replace that section with this line (all on one line):

return  '<p><a href="'.get_permalink().'"><img 
src="'.$siteurl.'/'.$filename.'" border="0" alt="Cartoon Thumbnail - 
'.get_the_title().' - Click for FULL Cartoon." /></a></p>';

The idea is to remove the ECHO’s and make it all RETURN

For ComicPress 2.5:
in the functions.php search for this:

function comic_feed() {
  echo "<p><a href=\"";
  the_permalink();
  echo "\"><img src=\"";
  echo get_comic_url('rss');
  echo "\" border=\"0\" alt=\"";
  echo the_title();
  echo "\" /></a></p>";
} 

replace it with this:

function comic_feed() {
  return '<p><a href="'.get_permalink().'" title="'.get_the_title().'"><img src="'.get_comic_url('rss').'" border="0" alt="'.get_the_title().'" title="'.get_the_title().'"></a></p>';
} 

The Symptom:  The archive list of posts for categories or terms looks funkey and shows years and no other info with a weird title

The Cause: a template file in the theme’s directory is trying to be used instead of the main archive.php file which is supposed to be used, mainly when comic easel is being used in the comicpress theme

The archive templates that come with ComicPress when you’re using Comic Easel *with* ComicPress as a theme need adjusting their filenames.

The filenames in question are all of the files in the themes directory that start with archive-*.php  (the * means anything after that)  for exampl;e, the main culprit is archive-comic.php … archive.php is fine, it’s just the ones with the dash after it.

So to fix this, you basically just FTP into your theme directory for easel or comicpress and rename the template files to be template-archive-*.php  .. example archive-comic.php would turn into template-archive-comic.php and that would fix it from looking at archive-comic.php as the archive page for the comic post type

- Phil

- CHILD THEME DIFFERENCE -

layout-head.php and layout-foot.php have 2 changes in each, they differ only in the fact instead of using get_sidebar(‘left’) and get_sidebar(‘right’) it utilizes the easel_get_sidebar() to function so that it will allow the bug fix for the home page to work properly, .. that bug fix is the ‘count’ of how many items get displayed in a loop ‘home blog post count’  was bleeding into the sidebars not allowing for those counts made in widgets to display properly.

So in your child themes, if you use the layout-head.php and layout-foot.php change the get_sidebar( to easel_get_sidebar( and you will be up to date.

- Phil

You can join me via ustream on my workshop channel Frumph’s Workshop and watch while I transform the dreamland chronicles site into something new.

I will also be migrating the backend from using ComicPress to Comic Easel.

- Phil

3.1
Changed the sticky pushpin image to 16px
Fix for the breadcrumbs (hopefully)
Timefix for the body classes
fixed the RSS title situation where it duplicated
Fixed the missing language translation string in the comments.php
changed the facebook like button and modified the og:description output
removed the overflow: hidden from .entry – up to end user to adjust the images accordingly.

Another project I don’t have to maintain.    But really glad that people found a great use for it and it has been reborn in the Jetpack plugin.

- Phil

The first one is “Boxed for Easel”  this child theme is an upgrade to Boxed for ComicPress

The next one is “Easel – Comic Easel” this child theme is basically the http://comiceasel.com website look.  This child theme changes the width of the 2 column layouts up to 920px;

- Phil