Do you host a Webcomic using the ComicPress theme for WordPress? Do you find it tedious to open your FTP client, transfer files, log in to WordPress, create a post for the comic, put in the wrong date, forget to make a post for that one comic you uploaded, and so on and so on?
Or, are you looking for a complete self-hosted Webcomic solution that makes sense? That takes advantage of a simple thing like the name of a file to drive creating new posts on your site? A solution that is built by, and for, Webcomic authors?
Then you need to combine your ComicPress installation with the ComicPress Manager plugin. This plugin for WordPress 2.5 (and potentially older versions, but that’s untested) will make managing your ComicPress-based Webcomic a piece of cake. In a nutshell, it will handle all of the file transfers for you, will create stub posts for comics that you’ve uploaded, and will check your ComicPress installation to make sure everything’s working as it should. It integrates tightly with the WordPress administrative tools to provide a seamless, simple, and sensible way to run your comic.
This initial release, version 0.5, has only been tested on a handful of ComicPress setups, so there will probably be bugs. If you’re adventurous, take it for a spin, and post your comments, suggestions, and bug reports here or on the Lunchbox Funnies ComicPress Support Forum.
This entry was posted on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under News and Notes.
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May 16th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
This sounds great, John. I’ll be sure to give it a try over the weekend!
May 19th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I keep receiving this error when I try to activate the plug-in.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in [...snip...]/wp-content/plugins/comicpress_manager.php on line 29
Any help would be appreciated.
Robert Hickey
[jb: Edited to remove private server information.]
May 20th, 2008 at 5:45 am
Hi, Robert. This sounds like you’re not using PHP 5 on your server. There’s a potential quick fix, but I would instead recommend that you see if PHP 5 is available and switch to using that instead of PHP 4. The quick fix is to change this code:
class ComicPressConfig
public static $properties = array(
‘comic_folder’ => ”,
to:
class ComicPressConfig {
$properties = array(
‘comic_folder’ => ”,
removing the “public static” part. Note that this is untested. Please let us know if it works for you.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:38 am
I get the same error on line 29 and the mentioned fix does not take care of the problem.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:32 am
I’ll install PHP 4 on a machine tonight and see if I can solve the problem.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I’ve done a PHP 4 compatibility release of the plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comicpress-manager/