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Disk Fail

by kaitou on June 2, 2013 at 22:35
Posted In: blog

Well, due to a disk failure, and the need to rebuild my computer, Monday’s comic will be out Monday evening, sometime.

I have preliminary pencils done, but no wording. (And, trust me, you don’t want to see my prelim pencils. I’ve seen a 3 year old’s crayon scrawls that make more sense than these.)

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Delays, Delays…

by kaitou on April 16, 2013 at 22:57
Posted In: blog

In case you’re wondering what happened to the last two updates, well, Real Life interfered, big time.

Last weekend (4/8 comic):
Decided to get taxes done early (like that worked). Tried an update of Wine (program that lets me run Windows programs under Linux) which hosed my use of Manga Studio 5 to a greater degree than normal. Reverted back to previous version which didn’t put it back like it was. I forget what happened Monday evening. Decided to punt to following weekend…

This weekend (4/15 comic):
Saturday, finished taxes (yay!). Tried to fix basic problem with Wine running MS5; gave up after a while.

Sunday, started on comic, trying to work around existing bug, but needed to get to bed early because I needed to get up early Monday.

Monday: got up early to do ham radio support (net control) for Boston Marathon. I was almost done with my stint (had two stations to close) when the explosions occurred. Stayed another 4 hours. Dropped another ham off at his house on the way home. Still needed to do dinner. Lo-o-o-ong day.

Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are already booked.  I also have another comic web site to fix on Thursday (not one of mine).

I still need to fix Wine, but I can probably work around it.

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No comic this week

by kaitou on November 12, 2012 at 22:46
Posted In: blog

Sorry (all 3 of you), no comic this week. Should have one next week, if I survive.

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Sorry, no comic this week

by kaitou on July 23, 2012 at 21:27
Posted In: blog

I spent the entire weekend rebuilding the framing on a friends garage. The builder who installed it in the first place and the building inspector should both be shot.

As a result, I’m too physically and mentally tired to do a comic this week. (Pathetic, yes?)

(I actually have an idea for a comic, but I’d fall asleep before finishing it. Maybe tomorrow.)

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Playing with Comic-Easel

by kaitou on July 2, 2012 at 21:33
Posted In: blog

Like the site (not that it’s changed much)? Check out the new Archive and Cast pages.

The bulk of those pages are courtesy of Comic Easel, a new WordPress plugin-based comic system brought to you by Philip Hofer (a.k.a. Frumph) who has been maintaining ComicPress for lo these many years. He has 5 (and counting) excellent videos on YouTube Start here and look for the Migrating from CP to CE videos.

Here is my quick how-to and notes for doing the conversion:

If you didn’t use either a child theme or Companion, you will lose any customizations. You might want to convert to a child theme, first.

  • Prep (can be done up-front)
    1. Probably best to upgrade all plugins, themes and WordPress to latest.
    2. Install plugins (don’t have to activate imediately):
      • Comic Easel
      • ComicPress To Comic Easel
      • AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
    3. Install theme (don’t activate):
      1. Easel
    4. If you are using a child theme, copy comicpress-xxx child theme to easel-xxx. In style.css file, change “@import” url to “../easel/style.css”. The advantage I found with using a child theme is that I didn’t lose the widgets, but save the settings, just in case.
    5. Make sure each comic is in only one category.
    6. Comic image filenames should be canonical date format. cp2ce doesn’t like more than one file with the same date in it.
    7. Take a snapshot of your key pages. I didn’t and couldn’t remember where certain things were supposed to be and what they looked like, exactly. This is a good idea whenever you’re tweaking a site.
  • Save old settings
    Write (or copy/paste) this stuff down.

    1. widgets (current ones will be thrown into the inactive set). I found that you can open a widget tab and copy/paste the list. For replicated widgets (e.g., Text), note which one you have as they all will show up as the same name.
    2. comicpress settings: categories (and category numbers), folders, widths)
    3. ComicPress Options: Things like layout, general setting, copyright text, etc.
    4. active widgets (you’ll be deactivating most of these during the upgrade)
  • Migration
    1. Activate new plugins, deactivate any other plugins to speed migration (note which).
    2. Under cp2ce converter migrate 5 comics first, if it comes back immediately, increase the number, if not, continue at current count.
    3. Actvate new theme. If using a child theme: use the child theme, not easel.
    4. Re-enable plugins as noted above.
    5. Re-enable widgets as noted above.
  • Post-Trauma
    First, fix all the CSS and stuff to get your site looking the way it did (remember that screenshot I had you take? You know, the one I forgot to do when doing my site.). Now you get to add all your characters to the character list and go through *all* the comics adding each character in that comic to that comic’s list. Fun for all of you OCD people.
  • Cast Page
    To add a cast page:

    1. Add your character in the comics ->characters page.
    2. Create a page and add the shortcode: [cast-page]
      at an appropriate spot (it could be the only thing on the page).

    To add cast images:

    1. Upload the image to your site, noting the location where it went.
    2. Add the following for each character to your style.css (or equiv.) file:.character-slug {
      background: url('file-location') top center no-repeat;
      }
      where:

      • slug is the character slug from the Characters page.
      • file is the URL pointing to the image. This can either be a full or relative URL.

      Example:
      .character-blob-2 {
      background: url('/wp-content/uploads/blob.png') top center no-repeat;
      }

    If you uploaded it using the media upload, you can find the location by editing the image in the Media->Library page and looking at the “File URL” entry in the right column.

  • Archive Page
    For the archives page, just create a new page and add the shortcode: [comic-archive]
    where you want your archive listing to show up on that page.
    If you used chapters, you can make separate entries for each by adding the chapter keyword, e.g., [comic-archive chapter=1] where the chapter number corresponds to the ID found in the Comics->Chapters page.
    Additionally, you can add a thumbnail for said chapter by adding thumbnail=1
    to the shortcode, e.g., [comic-archive chapter=1 thumbnail=1]
  • A recent addition (sometime before Jan 2017) is the list=num option where num indicates the list style:

    1. (default) all chapters
    2. do it for series that have parent-%gt;child (chapter= does not work)
    3. by year; lists years as links followed by listing for year last clicked (default = current year)
    4. shows entire list separated by year headers
    5. list by chapter thumbnails
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