ComicPress 4.0.4

Sep15
by on September 15, 2013 at 8:35 am and modified on September 15, 2013. at 8:36 am
Posted In: ComicPress, Wordpress

Not a big update, minor CSS fixes and the thumbnail thing

= 4.0.4 =
* Archive pages now display comic thumbnails for ComiC Easel if show archives as links enabled
* CSS: body.wide set properly for when the sidebars get removed!important
* CSS: .header-info padding removal when used as click block
* CSS: 780px 980px #page instead of 782/982 .. extra 2px was wrong, fixed

 

New CSS Elements in the style.css that handle the archive pages display of thumbnails

This CSS id dependent on what your thumbnails are set in the wp-admin -> settings -> media, adjust the widths and heights accordingly

.archivecomicthumbwrap {
	display: inline-block;
	float: left;
	width: 120px;
	margin: 5px 3px;
	height: 200px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

.archivecomicthumbdate {
	text-align: center;
}

.archivecomicframe {
	text-align: center;
}

.archivecomicframe img {
	width: 120px;
	height: auto;
	max-height: 200px;
}
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ComicPress 4.0.3 Changelog

Sep05
by on September 5, 2013 at 9:59 pm and modified on September 5, 2013. at 10:00 pm
Posted In: ComicPress, Wordpress

CODE:

* moved sidebar-above-header back where it’s supposed to be
* Removed custom post type permalinks and wp-supercache as recommended plugins
* fixed the archive – asc/desc setting in the comicpress options
* added #pagenav to the customizer for the uentry section for link:hover
* show the customizer jquery ONLY on the customizer page!bugfix

CSS:

* Correctly attribute the height to auto for images inside posts.
* style.css added #pagenav to the rounded-style class
* .sidebar-no-widgets now has correct 10px below margin
* added text-align: right; to .archive-date
* remove the previous posts/next posts display when using infinite scrolling
* added high society scheme

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Comic Easel, ComicPress update schedule

Sep04
by on September 4, 2013 at 8:02 am and modified on September 4, 2013. at 5:50 pm
Posted In: Information

ComicPress

ComicPress will update (be submitted to the theme review team) on the last day of each month.   (If there’s an update)  If there’s no update then won’t release at the beginning of the month and will wait until next beginning of the month.

— Except the first month of release of ComicPress 4.0 – where release fixes are done, will be sporadic during this time with grandchildren updates (4.0.1/2/3/4/etc)

— Major bugs will be submitted to the theme review team immediate upon fixing and will be children incremented #’s, 4.1/2/3/4/5/etc whereas the grandchildren revision # will restart at zero.

— Major feature additions will stay with the last day of each month and increment by child # as the major bugs revision is.

[ Rules of CSS  changes ]

— In the first month of Major revision #’s (the first number in the revision) CSS Changes will be likely and will be reported in the change log. (to the non-scheme)

— After the first month, no element’s are allowed to change. (to the non-scheme) Unless it’s a Major Revision (first number in the revision), ver. 4, ver. 5 etc.

— Scheme CSS can only be modified if it fixes visual problems and cannot break DEFAULT/Release layouts.

PLEASE USE A CHILD THEME FOR YOUR -extra- design elements! and look of your site!

Easel –

Easel will not update with fresh code until I can create a plugin to add all of those old plugin-territory code that was inside of it.   Once that is done I’ll get a new version out.

Comic Easel –

Updates every Sunday morning if there’s an update, revisions are based on the same as above.  (starting now)

If there is nothing to update, then it will not update.  — although the feature request list is still pretty big;  post on the forums if you want to request a feature or some capability you want.

[ CSS Changes ]

Elements are NOT allowed to change after publishing of a feature, however cosmetics can change if they are serious.

Minimal CSS only allowed in release CSS, extra CSS to make Comic Easel CSS look proper for your theme should be done in the child theme/edit CSS of the theme as overrides.  (use !important)

– Phil

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Balance

Sep03
by on September 3, 2013 at 9:49 pm and modified on September 3, 2013. at 9:51 pm
Posted In: Blog

One of the things that always bothered me about anime’, is that it felt like the characters in it were leveling up, little by little getting stronger as the shows progress to fight an ultimate boss.

Much like a video game these characters gained experience each ‘episode’ .. sometimes at the start of the series they would be super powerful to begin with and the audience was to sit in disbelief as the onslaught of enemies confronted them and the lead would just mow them down – up until the point there was an antagonist that the character had to deal with some inner issue in order to compete with.

It seemed like the same scenario in all of them,  over and over again.

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ComicPress 4.0 soon to be released.

Aug28
by on August 28, 2013 at 5:52 pm and modified on August 28, 2013. at 6:07 pm
Posted In: ComicPress, Uncategorized, Wordpress

I was going to name the new version of Easel,   Easel Evolved.   Instead I’m going to take a different route.  I’m going to name it ComicPress 4.0

I’m going to revive ComicPress – but not with the ComicPress code inside of it.   The new theme which has thousands of new enhancements inside of it.  (not individual features mind you).    Remember I posted a long time ago there will never be a ComicPress 3.0 ? heh that’s why it’s going to be 4.0 / never said there was never going to be a 4.0.

What does this mean to current ComicPress users?   It means if you ‘accidently’ update your theme to 4.0 you will instantly have to get the Comic Easel plugin and ComicPress to Comic Easel migrator plugin and migrate all of your comics to the Comic Easel format.   Your archive will no longer work and you will need to update your pages for it to include the new shortcode for archives.   The child theme I’ve been begging you to make will be required to be updated with the new CSS elements.  ALL COMICS need to be only set into a SINGLE category.  (it could be multiple different categories, but only one set.)

On a good note.  It won’t take much work to update your child theme ..sorta.; and there are new ‘customizer’ options inside of 4.0 that allow you to colorize it and change it’s scheme with point and click. (just like easel-sandbox child theme but included as part of the theme)

If you don’t want to migrate, don’t update your theme.

ComicPress 4.0 will have some nifty features in it Easel doesn’t, specifically for Comics but still be allowed to be used as a blog without Comic Easel if people wanted.  (I use it on all my sites) very very very versatile.

I requested ComicPress to be set to not be able to be downloaded anymore from the WordPress repo – until I update it to the new Comic Easel compatible version.

So yeah my mind is  made up this IS going to happen.    Soon as I’m done with the new release of ComicPress 4.0 it will go live and we’ll see what kind of results we get ya?

– Phil

Coincidentally, for those poor artists out there I will migrate you for free. .. but you knew that.

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