Publish A Webcomic With WordPress
Monday, April 24th, 2006This is a theme for WordPress that will help you publish your Webcomic. I wanted something very simple that would use WordPress the way it was without much for mods or a separate comic archiving system. This is just that.
If you’re already familiar with WordPress or PHP content software then it will make things a lot easier. WordPress is PHP software you can use for blogging or news and is free to download.
Click here to download the ComicPress Theme.
Need Help?
Visit the support forum if you need any help editing files or the style sheet. Or just getting it to work right for your comic. Also if you have any suggestions they would be appreciated. We can all work together to make our themes do all we would ever want them to.
November 18th, 2005 at 10:43 am
Sweet, excellent work!
November 18th, 2005 at 11:13 am
You Freaking Rock! I was just about to do this very same thing…
November 22nd, 2005 at 3:17 pm
Really intrigued by this. I’ve got a comic brewing and was nervous about how I was going to manage the tech aspect of it. I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see how it develops.
December 18th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Pretty slick. Just got it up and running, here:
http://www.tencentticker.com/butterflycomics/
December 18th, 2005 at 5:51 pm
Cool Dean. I recognize you from the Drawing Board.
Also if anyone needs any help with customizing it, feel free to ask.
December 29th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
Got it set up here:
http://www.prehisteria.net
January 17th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
im having problem with Word press settings, i couldn’t find the “when starting a post” options, using version 2.0
January 17th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Fuad, that’s because you don’t need that setting in 2.0 anymore. All the options are there by default.
To the right should be all the settings, one of them is “Post Timestamp”. Open that and you can set the time and date the post/comic will appear. It automatically remembers what options you like open by default.
January 18th, 2006 at 3:24 am
lol, okay.
kinda new to this stuff. thanks
April 25th, 2006 at 8:04 am
i love comicpress! it works great
April 25th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Sounds great.
Now I just need to think of some cartoons…
(I have to say that the year-day-month scheme is a bad one though.
ISO8601 (Y-m-d) is well known and was designed so that it didn’t get confusing internationally.)
April 25th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
ComicPress is set for Y-m-d
April 26th, 2006 at 8:33 am
April 26th, 2006 at 11:06 am
really good theme
April 26th, 2006 at 11:11 am
well, hi there
May 11th, 2006 at 4:43 am
Hello! You guys are amazing… I was stuck with some comic CMS systems until I found this theme. Nice job, plus Wordpress is fantastic.
Here is my comic site (though it is brazilian portuguese):
www.geekgear.com.br/players
May 18th, 2006 at 9:33 am
Looks good. Might even try out wordpress to use it!
May 25th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
hey guys, I’m loving this comicpress stuff. I was wondering, does anyone know how I could put a graphic archive along the sidebar? what I mean is, I would like to use a bunch of little thumbnails that would link to my strips in the sidebar below the little calendar. Any ideas? Alternately, anyone know of a good forum where I could post this question?
here’s my site: sticksandstonescomic.com
June 7th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
A whole theme is really cool to have, but I was wondering if comicpress could be narrowed down to a simple set of functions and page templates? A whole new theme is great, but it also means re-adapting customizations to the new theme.
– Side note: Wordpress’ Permalinks options don’t work on the newly-released Apache 2.0, as some of the modules (such as Mod_rewrite) have been changed about quite a bit. I doubt you’ll have issues with ComicPress after Wordpress catches up, but here’s a headsup for you.
… How come a person has to use Permalinks with ComicPress anywho?
Thanks for your work!
June 8th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Hi Jeanette, if you head over to the forums we can discuss those topics.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:38 am
I think there are a lot of theme for a comic in wordpress! My website is an example!
October 30th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
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November 22nd, 2006 at 9:13 am
Hey! I just downloaded ComicPress and got my first strip up. Thanks for the WordPress Theme! But I also know, because I’m not a code-junky (ESPECIALLY PHP!), I got pretty lucky in understanding where everything was supposed to go.
That being said, my spider-sense in telling me I know I did something wrong along the way or anticipate having problems with the archive section.
Unfortunately, every time I tried to join the forum to post my questions, I get a message saying I didn’t fill out the registration correctly.
Can anyone help a fellow web comic strip brother out?
My e-mail is chrisflick@csfgraphics.com.
Oh, if anyone wants to see my first comic strip post, here’s the URL:
http://www.csfgraphics.com/wordpress/
Thanks!
-Chris
November 26th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
I’m using it, and it’s awesome.
I’m working with another designer/programmer to figure out a fix for having narchives outside the theme folder, and for the ‘multiple posts per page’. I’ll let you know if we figure it out.
when’s 2.0 coming out?
December 12th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Hey, thanks for making this theme, we set it up at http://krazykimchi.com and we’re really happy with it. I made a small change using get links by name to place the links below the header dynamically instead of hardcoded in the html
December 26th, 2006 at 10:22 am
I am about to begin a webcomic on my wordpress site www.spacebooger.com where I also blog.
I was wondering if I only want to update the comic weekly, and update the content of my wordpress daily - is there a way using comicpress that I can have the comic shown and still have the index.php page show the last 10 posts?
Thanks
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:31 am
Hi! Just wanted to drop you a line and thank you for making this theme - it’s excellent. I’ve been using it since about October to put together a website for an online serialized illustrated book, though I’m just now starting to post pages. It was fairly easy to get a good-looking, functional site up and running, and being able to use the wordpress software really helps. I’d absolutely recommend this to anyone starting a web comic. Great work!
My book, ‘Emma’ can be found at www.emmaverse.com, if anyone is interested.
Thanks again!
April 5th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Hi there!
Many thanks for the theme - it’s just perfect!
I agree with David, here above, that this is just the perfect thing for anyone starting a web comic.
Multithanks