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Author: Brad Hawkins

So you want to produce a webcomic, and you've heard other creators rave about how WordPress is the way to go. But now you need a software package that can integrate your comics with your blog, as well as keeping the whole thing automated. This is where stripShow comes in.

New features in stripShow 2.1 include:

• NSFW feature, which lets you lay a cover image over any strips that contain adult content. Readers click on the cover image to reveal the NSFW comic.
• Custom thumbnails. Simply put a thumbnail-sized image with the same filename as your comic file into the thumbnails/ folder off your comic path and stripShow will use that image rather than simply resizing the original.
• Fully internationalized, and ready to be translated into your language.

New features of stripShow 2.0 include:

• New admin interface for uploading comics, either singly or in bulk.
• 10 new template tags for adding stripShow functionality to your theme.
• New widgets for navigation bar, storyline dropdown, comics-only calendar, comic rant, and bookmarks.
• New theme framework, stripShow Sandbox, which makes it possible to customize your theme while allowing easy upgrading in the future.
• Custom filenames can be used for comics -- naming files with dates is no longer required.
• Comic metadata can include each individual comic's orientation: horizontal or vertical.
• Index page can be configured to take readers to the last comics (for ongoing series), the first comic (for completed graphic-novel-type projects), or a random comic (if you hate your readers and want them to suffer).

Features of this new theme framework include:

• Four widget-ready areas -- two sidebars, a comic sidebar, and ad space in the header.
• Seven "action zones" -- configurable content areas allowing you to add elements without altering the template files.
• Layout adjusts to fit your comic's shape -- you can mix horizontal and vertical comics in the same archive.
• Of course, valid XHTML and CSS.

Of course, stripShow still includes all the great features which have been a part of this project since version 1:

• Searchable transcripts of every comic post, using a simple markup language for maximum descriptiveness and formatting.
• Support for nested storylines.
• Comics are included in your RSS feeds.
• Over 20 template tags to customize your theme.

Support questions can be asked at the support forum.

Only the basics of stripShow are covered in this readme. Full documentation can be found in HTML format at http://stripshow.monkeylaw.org/docs and in PDF format at http://stripshow.monkeylaw.org/docs/stripshow-user-guide.pdf.