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Forums | Multi-comic support / storylines
Multi-comic support / storylines
1:33 pm
September 20, 2008
EddieC
posts 7
Hi Brad Monkey, I started experimenting with StripShow and WordPress today. I'm new to both, so my questions may be dumb.
Is it possible (or realistic) to host more than one comic strip out of the same WP/SS installation? Maybe you already know where I'm going with this, but here's a hypotheical:
* Two comic strips: (1) Life and (2) Death
* Either could have postings to it on any given day
* I'd like to navigate Next/Previous/etc through Life
* I'd like to navigate Next/Previous/etc through Death
* By default, I'd like to navigate through whatever is newest, previous, next regardless of whether it was Life or Death.
It seems like WP/SS is sort of close to supporting this with some combination / modification of Categories and Storylines. I could imagine making two categories: Life Comics / Death Comics to identify which posts belong to which comic. Both would be marked as "comic" categories. Storylines would have to be modified so the storylines can key off of the category too. Or maybe: "this arbitrary collection of non-sequential posts makes a story". As it is now, if I understand the implementation correctly, storylines are based on starting date, so storylines (a) continue until the next storyline begins and (b) don't overlap or interleave.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Eddie
4:24 pm
September 20, 2008
Brad
posts 186
Ah yes. The Holy Grail. I've been working on ideas for this sort of thing, but haven't really worked out anything concrete.
I should mention that, while stripShow doesn't have anything built-in for this scenario, you could probably use WP's tag support to create something like that.
Every time I think about running multiple comics on the same site, I think, what will people want? Well, they'll want navigation between episodes of the same comic, but not necessarily between episodes of different comics (although this seems to be a thought of yours). They will usually want different themes for each comic… in which case multiple WordPress installations would probably be in order.
However, you do have some intriguing ideas. Multi-comic support won't find its way into 2.0, but I will work on something for a later version.
6:08 am
September 23, 2008
EddieC
posts 7
I think you understand exactly.
For me, I have five websites that I want to merge into a single blog: Line Item Vito, and 4 others nobody ever visits. All of them have comics and rants on occasion but on different topics. It makes sense for me to build a single WP/SS site with the posts categorized by topic. I could just use WP without SS for much of this, but I like SS's features to display the comic at the top when I'm viewing an entry that has a comic. I like being able to navigate to the "next in category" as well as just "next in time". I REALLY like SS's feature to make the comic in HTML format — this opened the door for me to use Flash in SWF format, with me providing the embed info… which opened the door for me to use my very own Flash player. Hm… now that I think of it I could make my very own Flash player to provide the special navigation I'm thinking of… Hmm……
BTW – one hack I found I wanted in the SS theme was to create a separate set of navigation buttons for the sidebar, smaller than the ones I use at the top.
11:08 am
September 24, 2008
Brad
posts 186
Easy as pie with stripShow… just use different link text for the second set of buttons. For instance, you could make them different images.