The ComicPress Free WordPress Theme lets you Publish Comics with WordPress
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ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Review and FREE DOWNLOAD
The ComicPress WordPress theme is a great (OK the best) Comic WordPress Theme. It is in fact Comic "Blogging Software". It provides all of the "Comic Mechanics" right out of the box with the necessary comic display, navigation and archiving features built in as well as seemlessly presenting and showcasing your comic and blog posts and handling them correctly right out of the box with no need to code or customize!!!
In addition there is a ComicPress Plugin that you can add in from The wordpress plugins utility. See the features of the plugin at the end of this ComicP{ress Review.
Before installing the comicpress WP Theme you may want to backup your existing website (even though it should restore back automatically if you install a theme and then re-install your original one). Click on this link to open a window with instructions on how to backup your wordpress blog.
Much of this information is from the Comicpress.org website. You can click on this link to go to the comicPress.org website or continue to read our review
ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Review and FREE DOWNLOAD – Download Link
Download ComicPress by clicking on this link
ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Review and FREE DOWNLOAD – Comicpress Review
ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Review and FREE DOWNLOAD – ComicPress Features
• ComicPress offers a Choice of 5 page layouts (Standard, 3-Column, Vertical, Vertical 3-Column, Graphic Novel)
• ComicPress has Full comic navigation first, previous, next and last as well as chapter navigation (accesible navigation above the comic)
• 5 archive page templates for displaying your archives (in addition to WordPress native archiving)
• Built-in comic transcription and search
• Comic specific Widgets to customize sidebars
• Support for threaded comments
• Infinite hierarchy storylineswhich is available in the ComicPress Manager Plugin (categorize by volumes and chapters to any depth level)
ComicPress New in Version 2.8! (AND VERSION 2.9 is out and 3.0 on its way. See version 3.0 notes at the end of this article)
New ComicPress Styling
— Sleek yet neutral design. Use as is or replace the graphics/colors with your own either partially or completely.
One Theme — Endless Layouts
— Choose from one of the 5 base layouts in the theme options. Further define your layout with several settings for customizing layout details. 20 useful Widgets included to add to your WordPress Widget library that can be placed on 13 Widgetized areas in the layout.
Customizable Menubar
— Create menu items and subcategory dropdowns without creating pages. Add author e-mail, search form, RSS link or mini navigation buttons. The menubar is also available as a widget that you can place anywhere in the layout.
Graphic Navigation
— Create a graphic navigation button set or select from the included ones. Complete with full navigation including chapters as well as an archive button, comment button, random comic button and a buy a print button. Provided as a Widget for choice of placement.
Post Heading Icons
— Add a calendar date icon to your posts, or your Gravatar or even a mood icon. Create your own mood icon set to choose from. Control them separately for comic and blog posts.
Author/User Pages
— Click a post author name or user name to get a bio about them as well as an archive of their posts.
Buy This Print
— An automated system for selling prints of your comics. Customize your prices and individual options. Place the button Widget with your comics, or use the button included in the graphic navigation.
Members Only
— Create content only users you have tagged as members can see on your posts.
Numbered Pagination
— Turn on numbered pagination to get paged navigation. Also works for tags and searches as well as returning the total results count.
Graphic Hovertext
— Replace the generic hovertext option (the text that shows up when you hover your comic image) with a character and dialogue balloon.
Calendar Wallpaper
— Place a wallpaper image thumbnail in the sidebar calendar that can be downloaded in up to 3 sizes. A great monthly offering to fans.
Calendar Archive Graphics
— Create images for each month of the year to show up in your calendar archives. Create a 12 image set to be reused or create a different set for every year.
ComicPress Companion
— A new plugin geared for styling ComicPress. Style your site without changing any of the actual theme files. If you break anything you can easily fall back to the default ComicPress styling. You won't lose your style modifications when upgrading to future releases of the ComicPress theme!
Also…
—SWF (Flash) file format support, extended comment code, custom image header, WordPress MU compatible, Plugin Wonderful (Project Wonderful plugin) built-in support, related comics/posts feature, click comic for next comic feature, disable comic on front page (use a thumbnail link), and more…
ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Add-On Plugin Features
ComicPress Manager Plugin
• Easy analysis and configuration of your ComicPress theme setup
• Quomicpress (like Quickpress) allows you to post new comics from the WordPress dashboard
• Bulk import, create posts for an existing archive of comics
• Upload comic files, no FTP necessary, one at a time or a muli-file zipped batch job
• Catch errors, verifies your image files, corrects/adjusts file names at upload
• Automatically create comic thumbnails for your archive or feed
• Bulk edit comic posts and easily change comic post dates/filenames
• Create and organize storyline categories
• …and much more!
ComicPress Companion Plugin
• Make all your style edits easily in the WordPress admin
• No need to worry about making any harmful changes to the actual ComicPress stylesheet
• Upgrade the ComicPress theme without losing your custom styling
ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Review and FREE DOWNLOAD – Whats new?
Comic Press is preparing to Launch Version 3.0 (ComicPress Premium).
ThisCom is a huge change for ComicPress in terms of fucn=nctionality and policy as comicPress 3.0 will be a paid for WordPress Theme. And really it should be. It is the best of the best.
Below is an article reposted from Phil at www.Frumph.net defining the current state and future of the ComicPress WordPress Theme.
on April 25th, 2010
It has been 6 years since Tyler Martin created ComicPress. The soul original purpose was for him to create a site for his comic that was easily manipulated in the way that he wanted it to be. He then offered to make other peoples comics using his theme and offered it up to the public.
When I got on board to add features to ComicPress it was primarily to add features that other webcomic authors when I design their sites could utilize. Pretty much for Tyler and Myself to have those options available for the stuff we were doing. Yet releasing them and making them available.
There isn't another theme available that allows so much control with the single limitation of the comics are not attached to the post, it goes and find the available comic for the post by the date of the post. We kept this method throughout every update of ComicPress for several reasons, backward compatibility mainly for those users who were already using ComicPress and the support with John Bintz's ComicPress Manager.
John Bintz has recently moved on and is no longer supporting ComicPress Manager. The things we've wanted to do to change the way it works just didn't happen, save for the simple bug fixes. Frankly, he's just not interested in working with WordPress in this way and has found a different pasture to graze in.
Where does that leave ComicPress? That leaves us out in the cold for the old-method of file directory search for comic based on the date of the post. The implementation of this is simply outdated and not conducive to the WordPress framework anymore. Since WordPress 2.9.2 we have been moving on to use Post-Types, we started this before anyone else even thought of the idea of using it and have been talking/discussing with the WordPress dev's on methodology and process the whole time, not only to make ComicPress function in the new post-types but making post-types work for this sort of application/use for WordPress 3.0. In CP >= 3.0 Comics are attached to posts, which means unlimited comics per day, etc.. etc.
What now? I am going to release one final ComicPress 2.9 line, with the ComicPress 2.9.2 release to coincide with the version number of WordPress it works with. From here on there will be no more additions / fixes / modifications to the code, save for bug fixes. We will release ComicPress 2.9.2 line now known as ComicPress Legacy when I have felt the bug reports have been reduced to nothing, from there, no more updates on ComicPress Legacy.
With the advent of ComicPress Legacy being dropped in working on additional features for we have in development *and working for the last several months now ComicPress Premium. ComicPress Premium is utilizes core WordPress functionality for attaching comics to post as it should be, meaning multiple comics per day, comics are attached to the post itself and more. We have completely dropped ComicPress Manager out of the equation and it is no longer needed. Many features that were in ComicPress – now known as ComicPress Legacy have been removed and can be replaced by plugins of the appropriate type.
To Recap.
The ComicPress 1.0 -> 2.9.2 series, now known as ComicPress Legacy will be defunct from any new features or additions, support will only be available on the comicpress.org forums and will remain Free. No new updates past that, unless another developer would like to step in and take over this line.
ComicPress Premium, which is the >= 3.0 line will however, not be free and *not* be backward compatible with earlier versions of ComicPress, i.e. the ComicPress Legacy line. There will be more information available after our beta testing phase has ended.
ComicPress Premium will only be available to those who purchase it from one of the developers. That CP Developer will then support you and your site with it upon purchase.
ComicPress Legacy will still be available to the public, free as always. No more feature implementations however and only updated to work with the latest version(s) of WordPress.
We have been and always will be the best way to have your webcomic on the net, no matter what the fanatics say. The features are unbelievably robust and will continue to be so, nothing else compares, no matter how hard they try to steal or mimic the functionality. We're just moving up and scaling ComicPress to be more advanced then ever before.
Where does that leave me? Frumph.
You won't notice, I won't be around anymore. @Zerzix, Adam Kellogg http://www.kelloggskorner.com is the new lead Developer of ComicPress. If anyone has been keeping up with the Jones they probably know why for health reasons I am limiting the work I do on ComicPress to designing sites for people and contract-support. Adam's taking over for me has been a God send. He's an incredible programmer and a super nice guy to boot.
Q-1: My widgets are misbehaving from a previous install of comicpress.
A-1: Take the widget out and put a new widget in of the same type, many of the widgets have changed and so the data is changed inside them and will not behave the same way.
Q-2: The comic blog post widget doesn't display on some posts
A-2: The widget only shows up when there is content inside of the post itself, otherwise will not display.
Q-3: Upgraded the theme but it keeps giving some errors about file not found.
A-3: 2 possibilities, 1. .. you have another theme in your themes directory with the same Theme Name: in the style.css (another comicpress theme) – Remove any other comicpress themes. or 2. Your hosting does PHP caching and you just need to wait bit for it to clear.
Q-4: Buy Print isn't pointing to the location I set it in the options.
A-4: This is fixed in 2.9.0.4 make sure you upgrade your comicpress version.
Q-5: Getting an error on the post & pages tab in the comicpress options saying array_merge not working
Q-5: This is a permissions issue with your server, the glob (php function) is unable to read the directories.
Known Bugs
2.9.0.0 -
Navigation widget is not displaying properly in IE7 and lower. (fixed 2.9.0.1)
Comic Blog Post not showing on home page. (fixed 2.9.0.1)
OK thats it for this ComicPress Free WordPress Theme Review and FREE DOWNLOAD Article!
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