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The Need for Speed: ComicPress Manager 1.2.0

October 29th, 2008

ComicPress Manager 1.2.0 is live and ready to make your Webcomics get posted even faster! This release brings about some new features, a bunch of bugfixes, and major performance enhancements. The list of improvements:

JavaScript usage by ComicPress Manager has been greatly improved. Files are now minified (the originals are still there, too) and in-page JS use has been streamlined.
For those working with 8 bit PNG files: bugs in the way I was using both GD and ImageMagick were producing thumbnail images that were 24 bit, and therefore much too large. Now, feeding CPM an 8 bit PNG produces an 8 bit thumbnail.
A new menu option, Write -> Comic, gives you a very stripped down comic file uploader.
You now have the ability to post a comic to multiple categories at once.
Bugs related to the use of magic quotes and other PHP weirdness have been fixed.

…wait, are you still reading this? Go upgrade right now! You’ll be glad you did!

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chaves
October 30th, 2008 at 2:16 am

Great! Thanks for the update. This plugin is just pure awesomeness.

John
October 30th, 2008 at 5:01 am

A quick note: a bug with PHP 4 was found by forum members. Version 1.2.1 of CPM is up now and fixes the PHP 4 problem, so if you’ve been having issues on a PHP 4 installation, go ahead and upgrade. If you haven’t been having problems w/ the upgrade, don’t bother.

Tricia
October 30th, 2008 at 6:14 am

Just a heads up. There was a bug in 1.2.0, and 1.2.1 was posted this morning.

Daniel Davis
October 30th, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Hey John! Thanks for the update. Your work on the Comic Press Manager is very appreciated. I’m really glad that you continue to tweak and improve it.

You rock!

John
November 1st, 2008 at 5:48 am

Thanks, Daniel! Another update today that will affect more users than the last: 1.2.2 fixes an issue with counting missing posts on the Import page. This didn’t affect the actual import functionality, just the count preview. So if you don’t normally use the Count Missing Posts Import functionality, no need to upgrade.