Rachel Nabors ([info]crowhen) wrote,
@ 2008-08-27 12:22:00
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Managing a comic: what do you use?
ComicPress, the Wordpress-based comics blog theme, seems to be the comic manage of choice these days. But I'm curious, is there anything else that is popular? And if not, what sort of additions to people add to their ComicPress installations?

I'm getting ready to put comics on my site again and need to make with the instally.

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[info]poisonrational
2008-08-27 06:40 pm UTC (link)
There's the ComicPress Manager, which helps maintain/automate bulk uploads and such. You can also embed your Twitter. Other then that; most edits I've seen people do were all manual changes.

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[info]crowhen
2008-08-27 06:48 pm UTC (link)
when you say embed twitter, do you mean that it can send auto update links to your twitter or just that it will display your twitter updates next to your comic? If the latter, that's nothing special.

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[info]poisonrational
2008-08-27 07:05 pm UTC (link)
Just the latter that I know of. (I know it's super basic, but at least your readers will know you have a Twitter!) But now that you mention it, there might be a way to auto-Tweet your RSS updates to your Twitter. ...I'm just not sure. I had never really thought about it!

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[info]crowhen
2008-08-27 07:14 pm UTC (link)
Auto tweeting would be f-ing awesome!

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[info]poisonrational
2008-08-27 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it would! It would save me so much time!

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[info]kimonos_house
2008-08-27 06:45 pm UTC (link)
I use Walrus, myself. I had to have a friend alter the PHP for me so the img tags would validate. A simple matter of getting it to add the slash at the end. Other than that, I've found it very easy to use. I just upload my images and news text, and it checks the date to see if it's time to allow public viewing. I love that--it won't let people read a page before they're supposed to.

In retrospective, I should have set it up to look for .txt files instead of .jpg, because then I could edit each img tag myself, adding in customized alt text.

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[info]gregusa
2008-08-28 02:07 pm UTC (link)
ComicPress has been amazingly simple to use. Because it uses WordPress and the new widgets feature, it's very easy to drop things in the sidebars. Although it can be used "right out of the box", it's very easy to customize the ComicPress template. The fact that it auto-generates an RSS feed is extra nice.

Using ComicPress in combo with the Comicpress Manager plugin makes the maintenance even easier.

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