MaxVaehling

Okay, one by one…

The ‘option’ I mentioned for making the disappearing act go away: I wouldn’t know what option that is because I don’t know your theme, I’m just hoping you can find a nice friendly checkbox in your theme’s options or config menu that says “make content invisible initially” which you can then uncheck. Reinstalling the theme porobably won’t help unless you also clear out the database. Trust me, you don’t want to do that.

Loading a post when clicking the navigation: Yeah, that’s pretty much how Comic Easel works. It creates posts for the comics, and you navigate along the posts’ permalinks. (Kantorwont does that, too, btw, just look at the adress bar.) What you want is for the posts’ page layouts to look the same as your home page. Depending on how your theme is built, you do that either by moving the bits that are supposed to stay the same from the front page template to header.php or wherever that stuff is stored, and the bottom bits to the footer. Or you just copy and paste them to the single.php template if the other thing doesn’t work. (But I recommend the former, if you can. Saves on page load time, too.) There’s also a chance that your theme has statica page assigned as a front page, and it’s different from a post in some ways. You can check for that in settings/reading. But tbh, I don’t think it’s likely.

Not sure what Frumph meant (could be how you read it), but the general idea is to, well, find the best position and put the code there. I guess he referred to content.php because that’s where the theme sorts out the blog loop.

Most WP themes will have placeholders in their header, index and footer files – php includes or <div> call-outs that signify “that bit goes here”. Find the one that sounds like the place you’re looking for (I guess: above where the blog post goes), insert, see what happens, repeat till you’re satisfied. The right spot could be anywhere in header.php, index.php, content.php or even footer.php, depending on how your theme is organized, as well as any include they reference that isn’t page.php or single.php.

And when I say ‘options’, I mean ‘config’.

I don’t know exactly what you mean by ‘similar to Kantorwont’. The first/last buttons? (You should be able to edit the navigation in Comic Easel’s ‘Options’. Or disable it and go with the widget which you can place in any sidebar.) The placement right underneath the comic? (You got that on the home page. If you choose the widget, you can place that in the sidebar under the comic. If your theme doesn’t have a sidebar there, CE can make it for you. Again, in ‘options’.)

It’s possible that the do_action(comic-blog-area) function only works when the page isn’t already showing the post. like yours seems to do. (Yep, looks like it. I’ve just disabled the is_home() condition on my own do_action action, and it still only shows on the homepage where there isn’t a blog post to go with the comic.) You could dectivate the post on the home page (in options) and then place the area, but why would you? You’d just be replacing the post with the post.

The comic’s disappearing act is probably a functin of your theme. It’s not just the comic, btw – I think I’ve seen other elements do that, too. There may be an option for that.

It seems Straysonline just used the comic blog area on the home page. Which is basically just the blog content before the “more” tag. If that’s what you want – easy. Just include
<?php do_action(‘comic-blog-area’); ?> where you want that content – and when you upload a comic, make sure you use that ‘more’ separator and keep the post snappy before that.

As for not displaying the comic on the home page, there are two ways of doing that, depending on where you’ve placed the comic-area code. If it’s somewhere further down and could just as well be in one of the templates, just put it there (I’m guessing ‘there’ would be single.php, but it really depends on your theme structure) instead. Or, if it’s in header.php and really can’t go anywhere else (or if it’s more convenient for you), extend the “do_action” code with a condition that excludes the home page.

This would read something like:

<?php if ( !is_home() ) { do_action(‘comic-area’); } ?>

The easiest, most low-tech way would be to write some extra css into the page template that cancels out the css from style.css. Something like

‘<style> #primary { margin:0px; } </style>’
right above the bit where it calls for id=primary.

Unless you’re using the same temploate for something else, too. In which case you’ll need a conditional tag like ‘if (is_page(‘comic’)’ or (is_single()’, whatever your page structure demands.

It’s probably more elegant to assign an extra class or something, but this is the first thing that comes to mind.

So if it’s in it gets pushed below the comments? (Been wondering about that since I didn’t see the sidebar under the footer.)

I’ve noticed that on the comic page, the whole #primary area seems to be too far to the right, probably pushing the sidebar off to the next position it could grab hold on. If you hover over the area in Firebug, it marks the area to the right of… everything… as part of #primary. If you deactivate the margin settings for #primary in your theme’s css, it stops doing that, but it may interfere with other pages. So, try and error.

Or maybe the comics area is too wide. Or the sidebar. Or the page wrap too narrow. If that’s the case, you can fix that in css. Just make sure the widths for the comic area and the sidebar aren’t larger than the page width (or 100%). Better to have a bit less to account for margins and padding.