Comic Easel

The Comic Easel plugin is perfect for artists that want to run a Web comic strip.

It works on any theme because it uses a shortcode system for embedding the comics, and comes with support for themes.

An admin panel section is also included, for uploading and publishing new comics.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• Moved most actions and filters to run at 'init' time so they are found at a better time after other plugins are loaded
• Added some CSS to disable the prev/next for the Jetpack Mobile theme on single-comic pages
• Fix:
• Make sure the extra CSS for Jetpack's mobile theme, only executes with the Jetpack mobile theme
• Translation strings for "No comic found." in a couple are done correctly

What is new in version 1.9.5:

• Moved most actions and filters to run at 'init' time so they are found at a better time after other plugins are loaded
• Added some CSS to disable the prev/next for the Jetpack Mobile theme on single-comic pages
• Fix:
• Make sure the extra CSS for Jetpack's mobile theme, only executes with the Jetpack mobile theme
• Translation strings for "No comic found." in a couple are done correctly

What is new in version 1.8.7:

• WordPress 4.1 compatibility mark.

What is new in version 1.8.6:

• WordPress 4.1 compatibility mark.

What is new in version 1.8.5:

• WordPress 4.1 compatibility mark.

What is new in version 1.8.4:

• Title fix for comics so that they display // quick patch, links break otherwise

What is new in version 1.8.3:

• Rewrote the code to allow chapters in the URL using a different method
• Removed the 'click to view larger image' text when lightbox is enabled
• Added a new option to the comic editor in the toggle box, 'comic has map?' for those who want to make image maps for their comics
• Moved an option on the navigation tab to it's appropriate location in the default nav section
• Allow keyboard navigation jQuery to work with the navigation widget and not just default nav

What is new in version 1.8.1:

• Config section bug fix for saving the graphic navigation dropdown value.

What is new in version 1.8:

• Added some tabs in the comic - config
• Moved the post type name options to the 'archive' tab
• Added a couple of new options that allow you to change the word usage for "chapter" to something else
• resources tables coming from fetched file
• archive dropdown now shows select of the chosen name from the config
• do not display transcripts on the archive and search pages
• the column for the all comics now uses the name chosen for the taxonomy
• change the way the comment value is displayed in the navigation to better support disqus and other 3rd party comment systems
• Comic sidebars now default to being enabled on new installations

What is new in version 1.7.6:

• Fixed the dropdown-archive widget to allow you to recheckmark certain options.

What is new in version 1.7.4:

• Filter the comic-display-area to be on the home landing page and single pages only.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• Added 'link to' box that makes whatever comic is there link to whatever URL you put in the input box.
• Added comic archive dropdown shortcode [comic-archive-dropdown] so you can embed that into any post or page.

What is new in version 1.7.2:

• Added option to enable the default comic navigation to appear above the comic
• Added option to the archive dropdown widget to jump to the archive page instead of the first comic in the chapter

What is new in version 1.7.1:

• Now properly adds menu_order column to WPMS installs for chapter ordering
• Added toggle in archive chapter dropdown that let's you set it so that the count doesn't show
• Changed width of ID column in the chapters editor section to 40px to account for higher iD numbers
• Added option to allow comics to be associated with regular WordPress categories
• Fixed bug where archive dropdown didn't properly display order

What is new in version 1.6.2:

• Verifying compatibility with WordPress 3.9.

What is new in version 1.6:

• Can select which chapter appears on the home page (or all) removed click comic for larger version text.

What is new in version 1.5.9:

• Added option to disable the rewrite rules regeneration.

What is new in version 1.5.7:

• Fix for the keyboard navigation if someone wants to type a comment and use arrows in there.

What is new in version 1.5.5:

• JS, added keyboard navigation .js file - auto-on always.

What is new in version 1.5.1:

• Fixed a bunch of extra /slashes that were after plugin_path and plugin_url.

What is new in version 1.4.5:

• Added Motion Artist comics default CSS to the comiceasel.css.
• Removed erroneous quote in the admin-meta.
• Removed extra padding in the #comic-foot in the comiceasel.css.

What is new in version 1.4.3:

• Support for Jetpack's Publicize and shortlinks for comics.
• Change menu position to 6 if Jetpack comics is activated so they don't overwrite each other.
• Fixed some localization strings being the wrong designation.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

• Remove testing code for thumbnails in the related comics section.

What is new in version 1.4:

• Added support for 'motion artist' comics.
• Fixed some visual issues on the comic - comics page, where the thumbnail was being cut off.
• Made the admin-editor.css file enqueue on the comics list page as well.

What is new in version 1.3.13:

• Added the random comic in navigation to work like the default one if set to chapter only.
• Added some arguments to the ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter() function.

What is new in version 1.3.11:

• Option added to the thumbnail widget to set the thumbnail to not display on posts that the thumbnail displays (used to be always) now it default as off.
• Toggle in comic post editor to allow [all] comics attached to the post to display for the day full sized with or without a jquery page flipper.

What is new in version 1.3.10:

• Replaced some home_url with admin_url for admin location links in the admin_meta
• Restored the protect/unprotect but renamed them ceo_protect ceo_unprotect, wp_reset_query was having 'issues'
• Added injection of the comic-easel version number as a meta tag for the section
• Fixed some injection code where it was returning at the wrong time for the post-info
• chapter= argument now works inside cast-page so that you can seperate the casts between different comics

What is new in version 1.3.9:

• New widget, which displays mini thumbnails with hovercards of the cast members who are in the current comic.

What is new in version 1.3.8:

• Revamped the cast-page shortcode, in tables now, also shows most recent comic the character was in, cast-page now accepts order=(asc/desc) and limit=# arguments documentation now available at comiceasel.com.

What is new in version 1.3.6:

• Introducing Comic Easel - Import.

What is new in version 1.3:

• Chapter order fields fixed.

What is new in version 1.2:

• Fixed the name change after saving the widget.

What is new in version 1.1:

• Added option to allow making the first comic appear on the home page the comic's blog post now will search for content-comic.php in the theme/child themes directory and use that if it exists.

What is new in version 1.0.19:

• Fixed problem with tags and the archive reverted previous change to not showing chapters that were empty in the archive dropdown not flushing wp_rewrite on deactivation - should set the permalinks properly now on activation.

What is new in version 1.0.14:

• Made it so that the navigation widget shows up whether the comic sidebars are active or not.

What is new in version 1.0.13:

• Some additions to the language code.
• Possible fix for the undefined problem with archive comic post types.
• Various CSS fixes.

What is new in version 1.0.9:

• Use hovertext as well as comic-hovertext in the meta fields for those coming from ComicPress.

What is new in version 1.0.8:

• Bug fixes for shortcodes, and placement of shortcodes.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.2 or higher