What to Expect on the new WebComics.com

Feb14
by on February 14, 2014 at 5:42 am and modified on February 14, 2014. at 7:36 am
Posted In: Comic Easel, ComicPress, Information

Bad things:

  • All of the forum posts were lost.
  • Your password was reset (but you can request to make a new one)
  • When your current subscription ends it will not auto-renew you have to resubscribe. (make sure your current auto-renew is disabled with paypal)

New Features (members only):

  • Add your webcomic to the webcomic list.
  • A comic section for posting members theme comics based on the holidays and whatever is decided on
  • Publish articles on your own, yeah create a post yes you, you can do it. (goes through review before being published)
  • New Forum section
  • Webcomic list allows for user interactive ratings from members only.

In the future:

  • Event Calendar (member editable)
  • Wiki Sections
  • How to faqs section for all aspects of webcomics that are member-editable
  • Since it’s not hosted on SquareSpace features can be added at anytime

This was a lot of fun to create.   I decided against going with a responsive theme because honestly I am not entirely fond of them, instead we’re using a mobile replacement theme that replaces the site for mobile devices.    More then 200 hours of work went into working on this site;  using ComicPress too!  (yeah i’m biased)  – with a child theme, there were only minor modifications to the style and theme files which are all based in the child theme; so you can see that the new ComicPress can do quite a bit.

Doing this project I grew in skills with importing data from .xml files from SquareSpace to WordPress, writing code to attribute posts images and accounts.    Some of the things I need to do in the future is to separate the webcomic list and make it it’s own plugin instead of embedding it in the child theme.   I also still need to learn how to create style sheets for the editor area inside the wp-admin so that it matches what’s on the post section.

Hope you like it, if you don’t make sure you write me a message (either way) on what your thoughts are; as well if you want new features available.

– Phil

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ComicPress & Fonts and the lovelyness of this plugin

Jan21
by on January 21, 2014 at 2:18 pm
Posted In: ComicPress

This is a need to use plugin if you decide you want to integrate google fonts into your site:

It’s called “Easy Google Fonts” by the makers titanium themes.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-google-fonts/

It inject’s itself right into the customizr for WordPress/ComicPress and adds a new section called “typography”, completely menu driven where you can adjust sizes line spacing and much more.

Worth it.

– Phil

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ComicPress 4.1

Dec29
by on December 29, 2013 at 4:15 am and modified on January 8, 2014. at 12:13 pm
Posted In: ComicPress, Wordpress

== Changelog ==
= 4.1 =
* Added LGN and RGN (3 column) layouts back into ComicPress, layout-head.php and layout-foot.php updated
* Fixed problem with customizer not setting defaults
* Added #footer a, #footer a:hover and footer textcolor entries to the customizer which were missing
* Boxed scheme w/blue background image is now the default design
* added sidebar.php as a default to handle plugins that need it
* added missing .uentry entries for search.php
* Changed the footer widgets to be specific widths instead of percent
* New browser window/tab when clicking social links in the menubar
* Titles no longer link on pages, static or otherwise
* Regenerated .pot/.mo files
* Readded the default height and width for the custom header image in case the auto-sensing one doesn’t work
* The home link .menu-item-home and the downarrows in the menubar can now all be skinned, i.e. replaced with your own images if you want to; I left examples inside the style.css for the home button
* Calendar widget removed for ComicPress; since Comic Easel has one, will re-add in a newer version when I update it to the new WordPress code; otherwise it’s a liability until then
* Options to allow changing media content width in posts and pages
* a couple spelling fixes
* option to change the media width inside posts
* fix for 2 column wide layouts having that extra wide sidebar (that was a bug)
* random default avatar adjustments to work with facebook commenting / as user
* a plethora of author page fixes/adjustments

NOTE: layout-2clw, 2rcw   (2 column wide) layouts were NOT supposed to have sidebars at 308px, that was a bug, it is now fixed

 

Testers/Translators can find the download here: https://github.com/Frumph/comicpress
Bug reports can be made here: https://github.com/Frumph/comicpress/issues

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Account Security

Dec18
by on December 18, 2013 at 6:48 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized

Reminder to everyone that I (or anyone else) work on their sites once in while.

Please set any account you made for anyone else (especially me) down to the role of “Subscriber” do *not* leave open user accounts. If we need to be admins to help with something, we’ll ask for it at the time we need it. – Then afterwards set us back to subscriber again.

– Phil

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Forum Removal

Nov23
by on November 23, 2013 at 7:42 pm
Posted In: Information

Due to the forums being constantly attacked spam wise – I do not have the time to clear hundreds of spam posts every single time I login there, I have removed the forum.frumph.net forums.

You can just email me with the contact button up top with any questions and I will make relevant ‘FAQS’ out of questions answered.

– Phil

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