Forums | Convince me to switch

You should use whatever solution will work best for you. That is why my advice would be, run a local setup of your comic first with stripShow to make sure it will do what you want. There is really no sense in switching to something different from what you are using if it won't be better for you.

That said, here's a few reasons:

stripShow better utilizes WordPress, and properly attributes what should be plugin from theme. ComicPress does not. This has always been the thing I dislike most about ComicPress. Regardless of the many good qualities it may have, it isn't set up "properly."

Another point to consider, stripShow has basically all the same features as ComicPress, plus extras (AutoComic alone makes it worth considering strongly.)

Really, the only negative to stripShow as it stands right now, is it hasn't yet been updated to take advantage of some of WordPress 3′s new features (custom post types.) Having said that, I don't believe ComicPress has either so that is a point neither for or against either one of them.

In the end, like I said above, you have to do what is best for you and your site. Since you are already frustrated with ComicPress, I would recommend taking a few days to set up some local test environments of your site running the alternatives, stripShow, Webcomic, Manga+Press and see which one is working best for you.

stripShow is great, and I have no doubt it will be even better once a new version fully supporting the 3.x branch of WP comes out. As it stands now, I still feel, after taking some time to use all the alternatives I could find, that it holds up better and is simply more logically set up than the other solutions.

Best of luck to you, whatever you do!

I haven't had any issues with plugins not working correctly with stripShow. Are you looking at any plugins in particular that worry you may not work together nicely?