Publishing a comic - ink19

We are already discussed about starting a web comic website. There are many choices on publishing the comic on the website, one of them is using the Wordpress blog engine as our web comic backbone. The reason of using Wordpress for this purpose are because Wordpress is quick to set up and easy to use. Maintain a blog website as a web comic website will be done in a few minutes.

Working with Wordpress on maintaining a webcomic is easy. You’ll need to upload your work to the hosting and insert the image to the post. The only problem is choosing the best theme and plugins for the site. Now, all the work is almost done by the release of Comicpress plug in and theme that will help you on maintain your web comic layout and publishing a comic work. This plug in is very easy to use, and having features that support you on what you need to show on your comic work, like emoticons and the story behind a joke.

Select A Hosting Service

There are many web hosting services that you can be found by googling the Internet. However, you need to be sure that the hosting service is coming with a Wordpress blog engine installed or having the feature to install Wordpress from their control panel. Even so, if you need to be sure, go to http://www.webhostingsearch.com/wordpress-hosting.php. That is the list of web hosting services that come with the Wordpress blog engine installed or ready to install. Every hosting service is come with hosting plans that vary on the features and price. Select a hosting service that fit with your own plan and budget.

Installing Comicpress

If you have a new Wordpress site with no Comicpress installed already, then you can follow the instructions below to install a new Comicpress plugin and theme for your webcomic website.

Download the ComicPress 2.8 theme from http://comicpress.org/download

Download ComicPress Manager from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comicpress-manager

Download ComicPress Companion from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comicpress-companion

1 ] Install WordPress from http://wordpress.org/ follow their tutorials.

2 ] Install ComicPress 2.8 into a directory called “comicpress” in lowercase in your theme directory. Do not install it in a directory UNDER comicpress, install it INTO that directory. Copy the files from the zip file with your ftp program into /wp-content/themes/comicpress

3 ] Install ComicPress Manager into the /wp-content/plugins/

4 ] Install ComicPress Companion into /wp-content/plugins/

5 ] In your wordpress dashboard administration area, /wp-admin/ go to Appearance -> Themes and select the ComicPress 2.8 theme.

6 ] In your wordpress dashboard administration go to Post -> Categories and add 2 categories, add “Comic” and “Blog”, so you will have 3 categories, Comic, Blog and Uncategorized categories.

7 ] Go to Plugins -> Installed, you should see a list of your plug-ins including ComicPress Manager and ComicPress Companion, activate them then click on the Dashboard link on the left.

8 ] Go to ComicPress Manager plugin area called “ComicPress” on your dashboard. Dashboard -> ComicPress (not to be confused with comicpress options in the appearance area) and click on the “Manager Config” link, so Dashboard -> ComicPress -> Manager Config. Inside the Manager config click the first run -> “Make Directories” link that
comes up. This will create your comic comic-rss and comic-archive folders.

9 ] Go to Dashboard -> ComicPress -> ComicPress Config and set your blog category, comic category and make sure the directories are set correctly for your comics. Manager config probably sent you here already.

10 ] Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> ComicPress Options and select the theme style you want to use and click save. Go through all the different tabs and get overwhelmed by all the options.

11 ] Go to Dashboard -> ComicPress -> Upload, upload your first comic. Remember the file names need to be in this format YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-comic.ext ext = jpg png gif swf example: 2009-08-26-I-have-been-assimilated.jpg is perfectly valid for a file name, do NOT use any non alpha characters like $#!+@%^&*(){}[] just letters, numbers and dashes. Also if your setting a title, do NOT use a number as the title.
2009-08-26-1.jpg <– Will cause problems, do not use numbers only.

12 ] Go to to your site, see the results. Rinse – repeat step 11 as often as necessary.

Now, you have a webcomic-ready website. Put your comic work by following step 11 for each comic, fix your layout from theme editing menu, and you’re ready to rock! Good luck!

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