Featured: PvP
Featured ComicPress Sites: Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Featured Site: PvP
ComicPress Version: We’ll say 2.1
Modifications: Medium
Scott and I joke that the version he is running on his site is something like ComicPress 2.0-432pvp_beta3. Really, you can thank him for the recent release of 2.1 that I had gotten sidetracked from finishing up. He came to me for some assistance in switching his site over to WordPress with the ComicPress theme and his new design… along the way, while sending him new little snippets of code here and there, I finished up the 2.1 theme… and everyone benefits.
Scott had the design basically ready to insert into the corresponding areas of the template pages. A little tweaking was needed to adjust the navigation buttons the way he wanted them, as well as removing the extra comments and post information code, as his site runs comment free. The greatest challenge here was switching over a 3000+ archive of comics, and keeping the site running smoothly with the large traffic. The original database was in Textpattern and WordPress’ built in Textpattern importer did most of the work, just needing a few corrections and additions. That’s too many comics to work well for the built-in archive template page ComicPress comes with, but the new PvP site proves that it’s not necessary, instead just relying on the streamlined calendar and monthly archives dropdown, allowing anyone to preview comics through any month or arriving at any date they chose. As far as the traffic, WordPress and the ComicPress theme prove to handle the traffic more speedily than ever, with or without the extra page caching.
Nicely done on the colors and design for the new face of PvP, Scott. (As well as paving the way with some involuntary beta testing of ComicPress 2.1 
).
*Information based on time of article. As always, sites are prone to upgrades and redesigns.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Very Cool!
Its great to see such a big player in the webcomics world using the same publishing tools as the rest of us.
December 5th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Great work on 2.1! and also a great interview on Scott’s new podcast! Looking forward to using Comicpress very soon.
December 12th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I’m really excited about the new version. I have been wanting to try ComicPress for a long time. Now that I am restarting a strip, I have the perfect opportunity. And the timing of 2.1 coming out is great. Thanks!
January 8th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Wow…that looks great. how did you change the color of the “Today’s Post” section without changing the rest of the narrowcolumn?? Can you e-mail me or is it incredibly difficult?