MaxVaehling

Is it only the Comic Easel widgets or other widgets, too?

Yeah, I was wondering ’cause it seemed ookay on your linked site.

Delays between a change and its appearance can have several sources: your browser loading the page from the cache, a caching plugin, something something database. Nothing to worry about as long as it shows up eventually.

Apparently, the post information doesn’t get sent right. Might be something as small as a ‘}’ or whatever missing somewhere that does that. The difficult part is to locate it.

Do you get the same error when you try to save a regular blog post? If so, does it remain when you switch CE off?

By switching your plugins off and on one by one you can get a grasp of where, roughly, the problem is. If it’s with one of your theme tweaks rather than the plugins: Are you working with a child theme? If so, you can delete and undelete files to see if one of your theme changes caused it. (If it’s the theme.)

Right, totally forgot those text links were there (I’m not using the styled menu myself).

In that case, the class you’r looking to change is most probably: .navi

I take it you use the text navigation?
If so, the most central point to edit the navi size seems to be the class “comic_navi_wrapper”. Just set it to whatever size you want in your site’s customizer. (There should be a section for custom css there. If not, try your child theme’s css file. Not sure if that’ll work, though – some theme css gets overwritten by plugin css.)

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by MaxVaehling.

I’ve looked around a little and apparently, what you’re asking is very difficult even for regular posts, let alone custom post types like CE’s comics. There doesnÄt seem to be an equivalent to /?latest when it’s tags. Theoretically, there’s a php function one could write to make it happen, I’ve seen pointers here and there but haven’t tried it myself yet. (Also, not sure about including that in the menu. If it’s a WP-generated menu, you can’t really put random code in there. A redirect might work, though.) It’s really less of a CP problem than a WP problem, so the answer might be elsewhere in this forum.

If you’re not too set on including the link in the menu, though, I may have a solution that only requires a minimum of coding.

There’s a plugin called Display Posts Shortcodes*. It’s basically a set of shortcodes you can include in posts and pages’ live areas and anywhere that’s cleared for shortcodes**, and it generates highly customizable lists of post links.

For a “list” of one comic post with a certain tag, I think the shortcode would be

[display-posts post_type=”comic” tag=”YOURTAG” posts_per_page=”1″ order=”DESC” orderby=”date”]

You can customize it further by including thumbnails and excerpts and stuff and place it in a sidebar or somewhere where it’s easy to find. What I haven’t found is an option to use custom text instead of the post title, but it might be in there, too. The parameters are well-documented on the plugin page.

* There are more plugins with useful functions for your purpose, but this is the one I use.

** Not all areas in WP are shortcode-compatible. If your WP doesn’t Do shortcodes in sidebars (by default it doesn’t), you can make it by adding this line to your functions.php:
add_filter('widget_text','do_shortcode');

• This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by MaxVaehling.

Short answer: That’s not how it works.

The comic updates are posts, like the regular blog posts but within their own little taxonomy. This means each of these posts comes with its own blog post within its chapter and, if those are activated, category, and all of those define their own post page (not in the WordPress sense of page, that’s yet another taxonomy, more in the common-sense sense) and that’s what the navigation links to.

Also, the index.php is not your main page in WordPress. It’s the general base for how every page is built, or more to the point, every page that isn’t defined differently by other templates. If you want your code to show only on the home page, look for a template called ‘home.php’ (or create one) and place the code there. Then again, this won’t restrict your comic area with all its functionalities to the main page either. The comic posts will still be created and linked to in the navigation, but it’s possible they’ll show without leading images because that code is only happening on your home page.

Now, if you want your comic to really only appear on the main page and to navigate within that, I think there are several possibilities, but I’d understand if you didn’t like any of them:

– Don’t use comics as posts. Instead, activate Multi-Comic Support for one comic post (there’s a checkbox for that) and call your image files from there. I haven’t tried it myself yet but I’m assured it creates a javascript-enabled presentation that allows for several images (i.e. comics, if you use it that way) within one post. (Also, deactivate the navigation in Config to avoid confusion.) This can get messy if you want to upload a lot of comics to that post because that’s what the individual posts and the navigation are for.

– Alternately, don’t use the comic posts themselves on your homepage. Instead, use custmoized thumbnail previews (you can make them as elaborate as you want and even use full-size images as ‘thumbnails’) and show them within a carousel or slider. There are plugins for that. Make sure they work with custom post types, though, and that they support whatever amount of such previuews you have in mind.

– Instead of limiting the comics to your main page, take the main page with you to the comics’ posts. Just put everything you need from the main page into sidebars, adjust the template for the comic post layout if needed and roll with it. (This is the one I’d recommend.)

– Create a frameset for your home page and place the comic area within that. This is probably closest to what you have in mind, but it involves most meddling with php and/or finding a theme that does that (some themes offer special areas for the home page that you might exploit) and still meddling with the php. It’s possible but messy.

Please note, though, that this whole business of creating individual posts isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. It allows for you to customize individual posts and pages, add commentary and to link to each comic individually if you want to create attention for one of them. It’s how blogs wortk and it’s what WP was built for. Going against that will remain an uphill battle. It’s better to read up on how WP’s architecture is set up and adjust your project so it can work with it.

Okay then. You could try moving the do_action(‘comic-area’) code to different spots in your markup just to see what happens. (Not necessarily to keep it there, just to see if maybe the spot was wrpong.) If it still doesn’t show, it could be some weird incompatibility with another plugin which you could test for by deactivating them all and reactivating them one by one. (You could also deactivate and then reactivate them one by one, but switching them off all at once can save you a lot of time if it wasn’t any of them.)

If none of these help, we can have a more detailed look.