Aug07

ComicPress 2.9.2 (released)

by Phil (Frumph) on August 7th, 2010 at 9:30 am
Posted In: ComicPress

ComicPress 2.9.2* series was released, here are some of the changes.

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Aug03

ComicPress 3.0 Dev Chat, Townhall, Summit, Planning Session, Crucible, Public Involvement meeting, Round Table, Thursday August 5th, 2010, 6pm PST, (9pm EST)

by Phil (Frumph) on August 3rd, 2010 at 9:30 am
Posted In: ComicPress

On Thursday of this week, at 6pm in the Frumph Chat, i’m going to have a discussion with ComicPress Community members about the current progress of ComicPress and involve people in the decision process on how it works, looks and it’s abilities.

Note, even though it can upload the comics it currently does not attach them, so bear that in mind it’s still an unfinished product.

The discussions that will take place will consist of topics of discussions that the community has, as well as the ‘flow’ of commands for ComicPress amongst other things.

Please reply with any topics of interest you would like to cover.

- Phil

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Jul27

Multi-Comics Setup Summary for ComicPress 2.9.2

by Phil (Frumph) on July 27th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Posted In: ComicPress

Quick Summary of setting up multiple comics with ComicPress 2.9.2

  1. Setup Storylines, the Comic Category will of course be the root.  The storylines you will use will be the comics names.  So create children off the root comic category as the individual comics.
  2. Disable the comic off the front page.
  3. Add latest thumbnail widgets and set those widgets to the appropriate category.  (yes you can do this now) So that the thumbnail for the latest comic thumbnail is for that individual comic.
  4. Drag the Comic Navigation widget into under-comic.   Disable *all* the checkmarks except first in category, next in category previous in category and last in category.  Those particular navigation buttons will let you navigate PER category, the first will go to the first comic in the category, next IN category, and LAST comic in the category, etc..
  5. Post the comic into the appropriate storyline category, remember 1 category per comic post, that being the comic you want to post it in.

And that’s it.   There’s still the 1 comic post per day, but you knew that.     If you look on http://frumph.net you will see that I have a Rascal Comic and a Pinups comic both with their own navigation.

If you plan on wanting each comic to have their own site, realistically you should, then WordPress 3.0′s Multi-Site feature is what you are really looking for and it’s very easy to setup.

Have fun!

- Phil

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Jun24

Frumph will be attending InterventionCon sept 10-12th

by Phil (Frumph) on June 24th, 2010 at 8:04 pm
Posted In: ComicPress

I will be attending InterventionCon, sept. 10th through the 12th http://interventioncon.com/.  I will be doing Workshops on CSS/Site Design/WordPress/ComicPress/Tricks.

As a bonus to all workshop attendee’s, I will be providing information on how to receive the automated Cast addon to ComicPress child themes as a free download.   The casts addon allows you to display your cast members in a totally new to ComicPress way, showing when they first appeared in the comic, how often they have been in the comic, all of the comics they were in with links and other statistics as well as individual biographical information!  (I might even have time to include the relationship tree with that too ;) )

If you cannot attend the workshop I will be providing this child theme addon for ComicPress for around $29 (after) the con is over.   The addon will be offered as a one time purchase with unlimited upgrades or free for attending any workshops.

- Phil

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Jun21

ComicPress 3.0 Information Update.

by Phil (Frumph) on June 21st, 2010 at 6:17 pm
Posted In: ComicPress

Updated information on the status of CP 3.0

  1. The comics directories need to be located in the wp-content/uploads directory now.  This is because it was a request to lock down wordpress sites and only have the uploads directory available as such on some systems that don’t have proper permission setups.   This also made it easier to code and reduced processing by like 10% just from that change alone. (this is for non-multisite, multisite uses the directories based on the multisite info)
  2. ComicPress Manager is no longer needed, you can ditch it with CP 3.0 – Everything’s in the theme.
  3. The multisite (wpmu) mu-plugin is no longer needed.
  4. CP 3.0 is completely plug & play.  You activate the theme, you add a new comic, no configuring.  Although you can adjust the configuring after installing, it’s not necessary to get up and going to configure anything.
  5. There is no comicpress-config.php anymore.  No need to worry about losing your options/config on updates.
  6. Comics are “attached’ to the post.   And there are several advanced options available including comics in different languages available.
  7. There are no more ‘category’ separation from comic and blog as you know it now.   The comic’s are in their own post type.  Completely separate from the regular blog posts so not only will there never be a conflict again they really just are not seen the same way again.
  8. Backwards compatibility:  Although we are leaving the ability to have backwards compatibility where the posts in the comic post type will look at the comics directory via filename date if there isn’t a comic attached to it, it will search your comics folder for a file with the old date method on it; we don’t want people to keep utilizing this method in the future, need to train comic users to just upload their comic with whatever filename they want with the upload controls.
  9. There is an upgrade script that will convert all your current comics from the old post style to the new post type.  Just select your primary comics directory (in the script) and go.  Although it will remove all your categories and tags since those are no longer used and are replaced with Chapters and other comic related functions.
  10. All ComicPress versions of the theme will remain free.
  11. ^ However, your wondering where are those cool NEW features we were adding went?  Lemme tell ya, instead of including them in the theme we’ll be having Child Themes available with those features in them.  Yes, for pay.  Don’t even bother griping about it, that one is a done deal.   The theme itself will always remain free and if you want to buy a child theme with extra features you can.  Those child themes will be available from their individual developer separately from ComicPress.  If you are interested in creating child themes for sale we’ll have an area on the website to link to the various child themes people develop.
  12. Soon as the initial release is done while in beta mode we’ll have a continual stream of child themes available with so many different options for the site look it’s going to be silly.   I have quite a few of them already done and waiting to be put up.
  13. Your current child themes will be compatible up to a point.  The CSS and images are Absolutely Compatible, things like the custom child functions, widgets and code will need to be updated.
  14. This is *(not)* the ComicPress Premium package we were making previously.   Almost though.  We stripped out pretty much all the new stuff and are making 3.0 the new post type with the new system.  What we DID leave in is the memory management, core options and new comic method.
  15. We’re waiting on Tyler’s decision to decide to make this as a normal ComicPress upgrade or call it a new ComicPress name. (note: he decided that this IS going to be ComicPress 3.0 and not an offshoot, he loved it that much)
  16. Stop editing the original theme already and learn how to do a child theme: http://frumph.net/wordpress/comicpress/convert-your-comicpress-2-9-site-to-use-a-child-theme/

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