[[innerindex]]While creating the Uber-Geeks Web Comic, I wanted to keep WordPress as the backend for all my comic posting needs…which was fine. In doing so, I lacked the appropriate browsing features that seem common amongst many web comics (like Penny Arcade and RealLife).
Description
This plugin places a comic browser in a comic post (along with the comic name) providing navigation to First, Previous, Next, and Last comics.
Installation
- Download and unzip mycomic.zip
- Place mycomic.php in your wp-content/plugins directory
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin, then visit the new mycomic submenu of the plugins tab. This will allow mycomic to create its database tables.
- Once installed, be sure to enable the options and consider customizing the look by adding the mycomic CSS to your theme’s CSS.
- Edit Your Post/Page Tempates
Editing Your Post & Page Templates
Place the following line of code above the output of the content of a post/page:
< ?php if($comic=mycomic_is_comic($id)) mycomic_navigator($comic,$id); ?>
Here’s what the Uber-Geeks index.php looks like (line 14 has the code you want to insert):
< ?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
< ?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
< ?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="post top" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2 class="first"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to < ?php the_title(); ?>">< ?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<div class="postmetadata">Posted in < ?php the_category(', ') ?> by < ?php the_author() ?> | < ?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> < ?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></div>
<div class="entry">
< ?php if($comic=mycomic_is_comic($id)) mycomic_navigator($comic,$id); ?>
< ?php the_content("<span class=\"continue\">" . __('Continue reading','') . " '" . the_title('', '', false) . "'"); ?>
</div>
</div>
< ?php endwhile; ?>
< ?php else : ?>
<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
< ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
< ?php endif; ?>
</div>
< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>
< ?php get_footer(); ?>
Place that line of code in similar fashion in any template file that you wish to display the MyComic Browser.
Adding A Comic
Once fully installed, you are free to mark your comic posts as comics (in order to add them to the comic browser table). While editing/adding a post, simply create a custom field:
- Key: comic
- Value: 1
Save your post and the browser will appear!
Comments
24 responses to “WordPress Plugin: MyComic Browser”
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Was toying with code last night to try and do this. Glad to see someone has whipped up a plugin.
Have been thinkin however, perhaps basing the inclusion of the navigation bassed on category? Might have a play with the plugin and see what I can
breakcome up with. :)Well.. it doesn’t work with 2.0.5 -> I can’t activate it since all the code of the plugin is displayed in admin panel..
Been looking a long time for something like this to try and help get my web comic(s) started up. Thanks for the plugin! :) Just wondering..Does it support multiple comics? Because I will be supporting two different ones on the same page..
Doesn’t work with 2.0.5. Damn.
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Doesnt work with wordpress 2.0.4 and it shows everything in the plugin panel
Works perfect for me with 2.1
But I’ve got a question. Is there a possibility to let the plugin check “id” instead of “post_id”, because my post_id’s aren’t in the right order, but my id’s are.
Thnx.
Jake, Mattisdada etc. It’s breaking because the file is in mac format, with \r’s instead of \n’s. You can fix this on linux like this:
tr ‘\r’ ‘\n’ mycomic.php.bak
mv mycomic.php.bak mycomic.php
gah! it lost the angle brackets. That should be
tr ‘\r’ ‘\n’ < mycomic.php > mycomic.php.bak
sigh… well that didn’t work either. whatever. I hope you know what I mean.
For people having issues with the plugin showing *everywhere* on the Plugins page – its a MAC format issue as explained by Mike Lin.
However, not all of us know how to use the command line and such (I certainly don’t! :P) so for those on e.g. WindowsXP – once you’ve downloaded the file to your hard drive, I suggest donwloading Notepad++ here, loading up the file and clicking on ‘Format’ -> ‘Convert to Unix Format’ before uploading it to your webhost (usually unix/linux)
During Activation – the plugin warns you that tables will have to be manually deleted if the plugin is removed. It also gave a header error… which I didn’t manage to copy down.
I haven’t been able to make this work on 2.11 yet… although the posts have the key ‘comic’ and value ‘1’, for some reason they’re not being written to the wp_comic table. Some suggestions would be appreciated :) Thanks!
This plugin now works in 2.12. The author (Matthew Batchelder) has updated the plugin so all the errors (that I can find anyway) have disappeared. Thanks Matt! :)
I’m having some issues getting it working. I created a page template and included the php line above. Tag is set to dncomic and I set the comic title. I get the error message
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
SELECT comic FROM wp_comic WHERE post_id=;
Kind of stuck as to what to do. I know how to admin MySQL and I can decipher php and css enough to modify things but I’m not so hot on trouble shooting and I definitely can’t write from scratch. tekchip at yahoo dot com
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Hello, i dont fully understand where i add your code so it can be displayed in the theme i use. Can i email you somehow, to give you my comments.php and add it? If yes, please do email me:)
Will there be any demo?
Is there any demo?
Long time no see! In the end my previous project petered out, but I’m back again! Just wondering if the plugin works with 2.3.3 and/or 2.5 (WordPress versions)? :) Thanks!
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I got one of my blog setup but it is wordpress version2.7 however I will try if it’s working or not. thanks!