ComicPress Manager 0.9.8 and site performance upgrades!

So for those who like testing new things, I have a beta build of ComicPress Manager 0.9.8 available. There’s a bunch of new features and some improved performance:

• The CPM config is now broken out into a separate file, comicpress_manager_config.php.
• The main ComicPress Manager code now only loads into memory when you’re in the Admin part of WordPress, so you’ll no longer be loading ~100K of PHP code on your main comic site. Big performance boost.
• The ComicPress Website’s RSS feed now appears in your Dashboard.
• You can now get a quick status check on your site to make sure you have posts for your comic files, comic files for your posts, and thumbnails for everything that should have thumbnails. It’s very basic now, I’ll add more to it as folks start to use it and make suggestions.
• (for uploads only for now) If you’re using one date naming scheme (ex: Ymd) and want to convert to another scheme on upload (ex: Y-m-d), you can specify the original scheme in the upload dialog. Very alpha, use with caution. I’ll get it working for imports shortly.

Download it here and try it out. I’d like this to also be the official feature freeze for ComicPress Manager for 1.0. So no more features for now, just bug fixes.

Additionally, I now have a phone that can surf the web (no, it’s not an iPhone, but I use a WebKit-based browser). So I’ve been working to improve the usability and speed of the site on mobile devices, and regular desktop/laptop-based viewers will see a bit of a download speed boost — I’ve been able to trim about 50K from each page load.

Finally, the Weblog Tools WordPress Plugin competition has started, so go vote for ComicPress Manager!

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