Oops! ComicPress Manager 1.0.1 fixes my stupid mistakes…
So yeah, if you’ve been trying to use ComicPress Manager since the stable release announcement, you’ve probably been wondering how that piece of $%@$#^ could be considered “stable.” There was one show-stopping bug in the release that I fixed…which introduced another show-stopping bug…which I just squashed today. So if you’ve been having problems with CPM ever since the 1.0 release, do yourself a favor and grab 1.0.1 right now. I promise it will work this time. 
Also, I’m starting to gather together a list of upgrades for the next major milestone, 1.5. So far, the following items are up for improvement:
- Automatically chmod’ding uploaded files to the permissions of your choice
- Streamlined UI for “advanced” options
- The ability to batch rename files that have already been uploaded and have a different date prefix than the configured date prefix
Anything else that I should be considering? A reminder: CPM 2.0 is the version where I’ll be adding the ability to modify a basic ComicPress template…once that template is written, of course. 
August 15th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
No matter what “comics” directory I’ve got and have config’d for, CPM keeps trying to point to the “wp-admin” folder. But my uploaded comics “can’t be found” there. Because they’re not actually there, but in the designated “comics” directory.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I’m just a bit confused by the various blanks to the side when uploading… The one with the time in it is obviously for what time to post it, but there’s 2 other blanks with no information as to what they’re for or what to put in those blanks.
Some text next to the boxes to denote what they’re for would be good.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:57 am
@decayedelvis: Try the 1.0.2 test release. It fixes a number of issues with pathfinding on IIS and Apache Virtual Server hosts:
http://claritycomic.com/mirror/comicpress_manager-1.0.2.zip
@Ryan Speck: Do you see any text on the left of the text fields at all? Are they completely missing? There is text that should be appearing there.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I should have perused more carefully… Looks like in IE7, the text is in the main box and the form blanks are off to the right side, like a sidebar. I mistakenly thought the sidebar blanks were missing text explaining what they were.
Testing it in a Mozilla browser, the blanks look correct.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:18 am
@Ryan Speck: I have done no testing whatsoever in IE 7, as IEs4Linux barely supports it, and I don’t have VMware or anything on my development machine.
I’ll see what I can do about improved IE 7 support in the next minor release.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Also, the “replace this comic” bit doesn’t quite work. For the life of me, I can’t get it to replace a comic with a different comic without creating 6 more copies of the same comic.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:13 am
@Ryan Speck: Another bug I fixed recently. Try the 1.0.4 preview posted on the forum and let me know if it works any better.
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@Ryan Speck: Better yet, grab 1.1: http://is.gd/L6I