ComicPress 2.8 Open Beta

Aug21
by Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) on August 21, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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Hey everyone,  today John Bintz the mastermind of Comicpress Manager, ComicPress dev team associate and my mentor in all things wordpress has setup a repository for ComicPress 2.8 beta.  Tyler Martin, Myself and John Bintz all have access to a single working area where we can make adjustments without worry of conflicting with each other, which will bring the release sooner. *yay*

It has also been decided that there will *not* be a premium theme.   The released version will be the whole big kaboom with all the features.

The download area http://www.coswellproductions.com/comicpress-2.8/builds/ is auto-generated every hour if there are changes to the build.

If you wish to have a a copy, go ahead and download, if you find any php errors, text mispellings or grammar errors or even want a feature you can find us in a number of different places.

Remember *THESE* are beta downloads and you use at your own risk to your system and you are downloading possible broken software.  However, it is my every intention to make sure the changes do not get committed to the repository unless I know they work here on my end first.

- Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)

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ComicPress 2.8 Overview Part 2

Aug01
by Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) on August 1, 2009 at 12:27 am
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Features!

..of the premium theme. .. some content will not be available in the public download.

Today we’re going to look at the features of ComicPress 2.8, going to list them off as best as I can because there are quite a bit of easter eggs.

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ComicPress 2.8 Overview Part 1

Jul31
by Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) on July 31, 2009 at 3:46 am
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An Overview of the main files and directories of ComicPress 2.8

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Hiding Menubar links from being viewed – wp_list_pages

Jul19
by Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) on July 19, 2009 at 7:09 am
Posted In: Wordpress

Someone on twitter was asking how to ‘hide’ menubar items from being displayed to the end user, but still exist. This can be done with various plugins on the WordPress repository. Going to show you how to do it with CSS.

Well this is how it works, the wp_list_pages() function generates the links  that are shown in your menubar, with a side-effect of adding CSS class statements.

If you view’ your source code (view-source) while looking at your site you will see the ‘end result’ output of your website you can see what classes are created for each menu item.

For example, here at frumph.net if you view the source, by right-clicking the screen then choosing view-source you will see that the “archive” link shows that there is

<li class="page-item page-item-3">

.. that class page-item-3 is specific and individual for that archive link.

If I wanted to hide the archive link from being viewed in the menubar I just need to do a little CSS.

.page-item-3 {
     display:none;
}

Creating a class in your stylesheet of the name you found for that menu item will let you do what you want with it. Adding display:none; to the class in the css will make it ‘not visible’ to be seen in a browser.

- Phil

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Comicpress RSS feed for Comics Only

Jul13
by Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) on July 13, 2009 at 6:00 am
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WordPress has a nifty little feature that you can specify a specific category alone to show the feeds with.

(if you’re using pretty permalinks)

for example, johnn saturn’s normal feed is:  http://johnnysaturn.com/feed/ – that will display the comics, the blogs and everything it can in one big open feed.

However if you want to see *just* his comic feed it would be: http://johnnysaturn.com/category/comics/feed/

That will display the feed for *just* the comics category.  Give it a try on your site, like:  http:// yoursite.com / category / <comicscategoryname> / feed /

My feed for Anomaly comic : http://anomaly.frumph.net/category/webcomic/feed/

I use the “webcomic” category for the comics so ^ putting that in will show just the category webcomic feed.

This works best with pretty permalinks btw.   Best permalink setting is /%category%/%postname%/  if you don’t have that as the permalink then change it, cause google and yahoo and other engines *hate* the permalinks that look like dates.

- Phil

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