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3:59 pm
August 17, 2007


numero

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This may seem like an obvious /tedious question:

How do you post comics?
-> I've tried adding them as regular wordpress post, but they don't seem to be saved into the comics/ directory
and though they are added into the designated comics category they are displayed as regular posts.
-> The only way I've managed to add posts as comics, is by adding them directly to the comics directory using ftp.

(v1.0 beta)

4:49 pm
August 17, 2007


numero

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Answer: Same as ComicPress (duh!  :embarassed: )
http://mindfaucet.com/comicpress/doc-20be.html

Uploading Comics

Your comic files can be GIF, JPG or PNG. The beginning of filenames must be in date format:

Year-Month-Day Filename Format:
YYYY-MM-DD

This will be the date you are posting that comic, it can even be in the future. After that part of the filename you can add anything you want, the title of the comic, a comic number or even just a random code so that people can't try looking ahead at future comics.

So for a comic of the following date:

June 1, 2007

Any of these filenames will work:

2007-06-01-funny_day.gif
2007-06-01-0043.jpg
2007-06-01XWERIU.png

Next just upload your comic files to your comics folder on your server.
Posting News & Comics

ComicPress sees every post as either a news/blog post or a comic post and handles them differently. By default, ComicPress treats the WordPress default category, "Uncategorized" (ID 1), as your news/blog category. You may want to go to your WordPress Admin Control Panel select "Manage/Categories" and change the name of that category to "Blog" or "News". To post news, just click "Write/Write Post" and make sure to check the news/blog category box from the Category dropdown in the right sidebar.

Any other categories you make will be treated as a comic category. Make sure to create one before trying to post a comic. To post a comic just select one of your comic categories from the category menu when posting, as you did with the news/blog post. Make sure the date of the post matches the date of the comic's filename. You can expand "Post Timestamp" from the sidebar and enter in any day you want, far into the future, and those comic posts will not show up until then. This is called a comic buffer, it is a strange concept to many Webcomic creators. ; )

Click here if you want to learn about changing which category is your news/blog category (perhaps you are converting from ComicPress 1.5 and all your comics are posted in the default category).

4:53 pm
August 17, 2007


Brad

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Yup, you're absolutely right. And that highlights a deficiency in my documentation. Oops.
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