WordPress 2.5.1 and Preparing For ComicPress 2.5
WordPress: Friday, April 25th, 2008
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Well, the first update for the 2.5 branch has arrived today. It includes a security fix and over 70 bug fixes. Unfortunately, none of those bugs were our bug. That’s okay though, it kind of forced me into a decision.
Preparing For ComicPress 2.5…
There will now be a Comic Category ($comiccat) and a Blog Category ($blogcat). Which kind of simplifies things, rather than the “everything that is not a blog is a comic” reasoning. It will make it simpler for those of you wanting to build out some of your own features. Also paves the way for other specialty categories (that navigate within themselves only), like perhaps a press box that just has news of your comic in the media, or a latest video blog or podcast that you want to feature and navigate separately.
You can still use other categories, but all comics must be in the “Comic” category and all blogs must be in the “Blog” category. Which means some of us might have some editing to do to prepare for ComicPress 2.5. Hopefully any time invested in changing stuff will be worth it. I suggest using Tags more now for tagging and grouping similar posts or comics, and save the categories for the more functional aspects (treating and navigating blogs and comics differently, along with whatever other specialty categories come up).
I’m moving along on the new ComicPress but slower than I’d wanted, covering every detail. Rerunning every query, stripping it down to the bare essentials. Making the design simple enough to build off of, but pretty enough to run it right out of the box. I’m making it more stable by containing queries so they don’t affect other elements of the page, and containing DIV’s so they can’t easily break the layout.
I’m going to keep a status of where I am at in the project here in the forums. Feel free to cheer me on, throw in last minute requests, or just yell at me.
Also that’s where I’ll post an early release when I’m done.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Dude,
Comicpress rocks and I am looking forward to the next version.
If it wasn’t for comicpress… we probably wouldn’t have a webcomic at all.
Thanks.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:37 am
i agree! without comicpress we’d all be thrown in the dark ages- forced to code out own petty scripts, actionscript, or programs (which i may or may not have done) so thank you tyler! you truly hold the holy hand-grenade for all us comic people who like the internet as a medium.
May 7th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
[...] wait is going to be even longer now too. For one thing, Tyler Martin is getting ready to roll out a new version of ComicPress ! I’m sort of waiting until that gets out of beta so that I can grab it and set up a new [...]
May 9th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
When I started writing Wiik Sauce for my friends web site, the first task I set about was getting rid of his crappy old website and setting up something easier to use. ComicPress has been a blessing that simply cannot be expressed in mere, mortal words. That said, i’m really, really looking forward to getting to do all that setting up and redesigning all over again with 2.5. So glad this is out of Beta so I can play with it.
…this is out of Beta now, right?
May 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Can’t wait for this one. Though I know this just means many more hours re-setting all the extra god for my site up! ha oh well, it’s WORTH IT
May 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Wow. Just…wow.
I finally broke down and decided to run with the beta, since the issues that people are having are relatively non-existent. And just…wow. It looks gorgeous right out of the box, and the CSS has been modified to make skinning this so, so much easier than before.
Huge kudos, man. You’ve outdone yourself…at least until V3.0