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I’m frustrated. As with anything technical, anytime you make sweeping changes, it’s inevitable that’s something’s going to fail somewhere along the line.
Yesterday, I upgraded the Reclaimer website and every site on the Halo 3 Webcomics webring to the latest version of WordPress, i.e. 2.8. The initial test installs I ran worked out perfectly well, so I was confident enough to try upgrading on the rest of the sites. The upgrade on the Reclaimer site appeared to work, so I moved on and gave the H3W sites the same treatment. Yesterday evening, I noticed, however, that the Reclaimer site was displaying posts incorrectly. Comics files weren’t showing up on single pages, news items were being rolled into the comics navigation, and the archives were a mess. None of the H3W sites have had this problem. I was puzzled by the problem. I still am. I’ve no idea what would cause the Reclaimer to fail so badly when the other sites are all working as they ought.
I’m not the only one with this problem. Checking the ComicPress forums, I see that there are quite a few others with the same problems. The current solution at the moment is to downgrade WordPress installations back to WordPress 2.7.1, which I’ve done here on the Reclaimer site. I have not downgraded any of the sites on the H3W webring, since they all seem to be working properly. I will not try to upgrade here again until I know that a solution has been found. It seems clear to me that the problem lies somewhere in either the ComicPress theme, the ComicPress Manager plugin, or both.
In the meantime, if anyone notices any additional problems, either here on the Reclaimer site or on any of the sites on the H3W webring, please let me know by commenting here.
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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.
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