Wanna talk briefly about the theme I’m using for the comics here.

ComicPress 2.1: It’s a great theme, designed for the publishing of webcomics.  I had tried to just swipe the code for my own failed comic theme (giving full credit where it was due of course), because I was hoping it would be easier to just plug the code into my own theme files and have it work seamlessly.  It mostly worked.

Mostly.

So I decided to just use the ComicPress theme, and modify it to match my theme.  It took longer than it did to plug it into my own theme, but it mostly worked better.

Mostly.

I had to make a bunch of changes here and there to get things to line up and jive right.  The comments forms, for instance, are all askew.  I can’t figure that one out for the life of me.  But everything shows up the way it should, and the archives look purty.

Note: At this time, developer Tyler Martin is working on the next version which will be more compatible with WP 2.5.   I’m currently using it on WPMU 1.3.3, which I would not advise for your typical WPMU install. The comics have to be uploaded to a comics directory in the root directory, and it pulls the comic by date.  This means that if you’re trying to host more than one comic, you would need to post each one on a different date.  For me, with my two or possibly three comics, that’s not so bad.  But for an install with multiple users doing multiple comics, it would be a little more than difficult.

That may be another summer project of mine, getting it to work better with WPMU.  But if you have a single install, this theme is pretty kick ass.

AB