Featured Site: Dorkboy Comics
ComicPress Version: 1.5
Modifications: Heavy

Dorkboy Comics takes publishing a comic with WordPress a step further, Damian has customize the ComicPress theme to publish seven separate comic series from the same site. The site features the latest comic (from whatever series has the most current) and allows you to browse through the archives by next/previous date or by next/previous in that category (series).

Next and previous tags within a category is a function built into WordPress and you can tap in to as well with a little research. Damian has also customized links to the archive page so that you can see an archive list for each of the separate series.

Nice work Damian.

*Information based on time of article. As always, sites are prone to upgrades and redesigns.

Featured Site: Butterfly
ComicPress Version: 1.6 CE
Modifications: Light

Butterfly features a really attractive color palette and seamlessly blends the header area into the headerbar link section with the use of a split header image.

Nice job Dean.

*Information based on time of article. As always, sites are prone to upgrades and redesigns.

Featured Site: The Check Family
ComicPress Version: 2.0 BE
Modifications: Light

The Check Family website grabs the new Blogging Edition of ComicPress and it’s 2.0 release fresh off the press. It shows how nice and custom a site can look by adding just three images and changing a few colors in the style sheet.

*Information based on time of article. As always, sites are prone to upgrades and redesigns.

ComicPress sported the ComicPress Theme itself as it’s own website for far too long, and the ComicPressing blog was off in another location, lonely and unloved. So here we go, relaunching the site to serve the ComicPress community even better.

The background image is made up of 100 screenshots of comic Websites using modified versions of the ComicPress theme. I’m sorry I couldn’t include more, there are a lot of great comic sites out there using the theme. Click the image to the left to see all 100 screenshots, see how many you can recognize.

With the launch of the new site, I’m releasing two new versions of the ComicPress Theme. Two Editions actually, the Blogging Edition and the Classic Edition. The former line of ComicPress themes, version 1.0 and 1.5 are now the Classic Edition ( featuring one post per page and only comic posts with accompanying text). The Blogging Edition is the one many of you have been waiting for. It allows you to have separate news/blog posts under the comic, and post them separate from comics.

ComicPress 1.6 CE (Classic Edition) Features

• One post per page
• Comics and news are posted together
• New archive file that is compatible with WordPress 2.1
• This is the update for 1.5, if you want to upgrade, just copy the new archive file from the download, that’s basically the only change. A version 2.0 CE is in the works.

ComicPress 2.0 BE (Blogging Edition) Features

• Can post comic or news/blog posts separately
• Recent news/blog runs under the comic on the front page
• Takes advantage of WordPress’ built-in archive features
• Still comes with the complete archive list but this time as an integrated template
• Easy to navigate comic or news/blog posts, work seamlessly in the archives
• Comic thumbnails available in the archive
• Comics built into the RSS feed
• More freedom for naming files, can mix .gif .png and .jpg
• Looks nice and is usable out of the box, no customization needed
• Informative documentation!

Head over to the about page to read more, you can get the themes at the new download page. There are also demo’s available to see them in action. Head over to The Check Family to see ComicPress 2.0 BE being used at an actual comic site with only a few images added and a couple colors changed in the stylesheet.