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ComicPress 2.5 and ComicPress Manager
It is through the efforts of two gentlemen that the existence of Reclaimer is possible. The first is Tyler Martin, who has created the beautifully designed ComicPress theme. Tyler’s design makes it eminently easier to produce a regular comic using the powerful WordPress platform. I’ve long been a fan of WordPress, and I’ve wanted to produce a Halo comic since Halo 3 first hit store shelves, so I’m very grateful to Tyler for making it that much easier to make it happen. With the release of ComicPress 2.5, things are even better. Tyler built five different layouts, with the graphic novel layout being the design of choice for Reclaimer – and by the feedback I’ve received from you, my readers, it’s been a very positive change. So, my thanks to Tyler for putting the effort into creating such a great tool for producing webcomics.
John Bintz has added another great tool to ComicPress 2.5 that makes it even more efficient to post up new comics. It’s a plugin for WordPress called ComicPress Manager that goes hand-in-hand with the ComicPress theme. Before, I had to make the comic, use Filezilla to upload the file to the comics directory, then go into the WordPress dashboard and create the new post, write the title, write a little blurb about the comic, add tags, set the category, and set the date and time so that the comic publishes only when I want it to. With ComicPress Manager, all I have to do is create the comic, make sure the file name contains the date and name, and use ComicPress Manager to upload the file. From there, the plugin automatically sets the date and time for me, pulls the post title from the tile of the comic file name, and even creates thumbnails for the comic archive and the RSS feed. I can set my tags and blurb right there. What took me about five minutes before now takes literally 30 seconds and adds more features than were previously available. It’s a powerful little plugin that makes it even more fun to produce a comic by taking away a lot of the ‘pain’ in posting.
Again, my thanks to these two gentlemen for producing these great tools and volunteering their efforts to the webcomic community.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Wow, I can see why it used to be so difficult to post new comics when you were multiply (is that a word?) ill.
My thanks to them too. Without Reclaimer the world would be a darker place.
In the case of AIs, who glow, definately so.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am
re: Shu Sam Chen (HSAR) – There’s a lot of work that goes into producing Reclaimer – but I think it’s well worth it. :)
May 28th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
You think?
I sure do, and I don’t put any effort in.
May 30th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Im not sure if you noticed yet, but you got Bungied!
Click on my name =)
May 30th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
re: mendicantbias00 – Hehe, yeah, I took advantage of the new Bungie Community Blog to submit Reclaimer as a news item. DarkVandal is my Bungie screenname from back in the day before I had an XBL account (I didn’t know what g/t I wanted at that point). Thanks for the notice. I’ve had the highest amount of traffic ever for one day today, thanks to both HBO and Bungie. (And I think it might actually have crashed my server briefly a little bit ago.)
May 30th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Ahh see, I thought they were doing a Weekly Spotlight on you like they did for Ascendant Justice. Better luck with your server!
May 30th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
re: mendicantbias00 – I can only wish. :) And thanks. I’m not certain if it was a Bungie rush, or another account on the server that’s been having trouble recently (I’m on share hosting).