John Bintz has just been programming his little heart out with the ComicPress Manager Plugin, ever since its release with the ComicPress 2.5 theme. This is a fantastic plugin, becoming a real must-have for ComicPress users… and he has just been packing in features and compatibility in a race to a 1.0 version of the plugin. So if you are running ComicPress I suggest you go give it a try and report back any trouble you run into or additional things you would like to see it do here in this forum thread.

Much thanks from the ComicPress community to John, I know we are rooting for a solid 1.0 release and appreciative of his dedicated effort!

The first stable release of ComicPress Manager, the management plugin for WordPress + ComicPress, is now live and available on the WP Extend site. For those who have been following the progress of this tool, you’ll find an amazing set of upgrades, changes, and bugfixes in this release. Now that I’ve learned a great deal more about writing a snappy plugin, the overall performance of your site when you have the plugin installed will be much faster. The configuration has been broken out into a separate file for easier maintenance. A large number of issues with regards to finding files on your server have been cleaned up, and compatibility with the wide varieties of PHP builds has been improved. If you’re using any older version of ComicPress Manager, I highly recommend upgrading as soon as you can.

As with all versions of the plugin, if you run into any problems or need assistance, don’t hesitate to stop by the ComicPress Support Forum.  Additionally, if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to post them here or on the forum, as well!

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.

OK, so there were a few tiny bugs in 1.1, including one related to writing out thumbnails that had been around for a while but didn’t get exposed until after I fixed another bug. They’re now fixed, and 1.1.1 is solid as a rock. ;)  Download and install the new version today!

ComicPress Manager 1.1.3 is out, and it routes around an issue with WordPress 2.6.2’s handling of get_posts() and query_posts(). This functionality is used when importing comics and when getting the site status. Download the newest ComicPress Mananger and let us know if you have any problems.