Multi-Comics Setup Summary for ComicPress 2.9.2
Jul27
Quick Summary of setting up multiple comics with ComicPress 2.9.2
- 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.
- Disable the comic off the front page.
- 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.
- 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..
- 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 https://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
Cool! You would just need to have people with non-overlapping post schedules! 😀
I would kill for CP3.0. That said, it’s better for it to come out polished later than broken early. I’m just so excited to try it out. I’ve got to set up three comics in the multisite feature.
John, this is the setup for comicpress 2.9.2 for multiple comics.
What would be cool is if there was an archive button that could be specific to each storyline. I’m currently using the “category icons” plugin to pull off the effect but it would be nice to have it integrated within the navigation widget. In any case this post has me thinking about some interesting possibilities for my site.
The archive templates are a more advanced subject but you can take the archive template and drag it into your child theme, name the comment area above and edit it a bit to do whatever you want it to do.
Hi Phil, sorry to resurrect a dead topic, but I am trying to understand what you wrote there. I have all of those categories set up and working for each storyline, but in my archive section, each story takes me to the LAST page of the comic, instead of the story’s first page. Where the heck can I change that?
THANKS!
ComicPress options -> archive tab, set the order there.
Hi Phil/Frumph,
My client (TimEagan.com) has hired me to utilize a CMS such as Comic Press so that he can easily post his two comic strips (Deep Cover and Subconcious Comics). I have read this post on how to create two comics, but my question is, can I tie a categorey slug template to the specific categorey post so that I can uniquely define the categorey header style.
Yes, take a look at my post about body classes, if you ‘view source’ of the page you can look in the body class=”” and there’s a unique category class available to be used there