Webcomic provides a host of features related to creating, managing, and sharing comics on the web.
Comic Management
Webcomic organizes comics into collections – custom post types dedicated to a specific comic series. Publish any number of distinct comic series on a single WordPress site, each with it's own unique settings. Manage comic media using WordPress' own media management features.
Theme Integration
Webcomic adds a new section to the Customizer that's all about integrating comics into your site's theme. The Universal integration method supports most themes, but methods for integrating with themes built specifically for Webcomic and themes built for other comic plugins are also available. If none of the standard integration methods work with your theme you can
use custom actions to add comic features right where you want them.
Powerful Tools
Webcomic includes a variety of tools for working with comics and getting comics up and running on your WordPress-powered site. Use the Generator to automatically create and publish comics for any number of uploaded media items, or use the Matcher to match media items with existing comics. Use collection-specific settings to organize your comics into categories and tags, customize your comic URL's, and more.
Unlimited Potential
Those are some of Webcomic's standard features, but there are other components included with Webcomic that provide a variety of new settings, shortcodes, template tags, and widgets. Take your online comic publishing even further with:
- Alert, which adds settings for creating buffer and hiatus email alerts. Never forget an update with customizable email alerts.
- Character, which allows you to tag character appearances and use character-based archives.
- Commerce, which adds PayPal-based print selling and donation features.
- Restrict, which adds features for restricting access to comics based on age or user role.
- Storyline, which allows you to organize comics by storyline and use storyline-based archives.
- Transcribe, which adds comic transcription features for SEO-enhancing text alternatives to your comics.
- Twitter, which adds settings for updating your Twitter account status when publishing comics.
Install Webcomic from the
Plugins > Add New screen by searching for
webcomic
(the first result should be the one you're looking for) or by
downloading the plugin archive and uploading it to your site.
One activated, you can choose which components to use on the Settings > Webcomic screen. If this is a new installation you should see your first comic collection, Untitled Comic, in the sidebar. You can adjust collection-specific settings on the Untitled Comic > Settings screen. Most components will add settings to this screen.
You'll want to visit the Webcomic section of the Customizer to adjust integration settings for your site theme. The Universal integration method supports most themes, but methods for integrating with themes built specifically for Webcomic and themes built for other comic plugins are also available. If none of the standard integration methods work with your theme you can
use custom actions to add comic features right where you want them.
Complete changelog
5.0.6 (2018-06-06)
Added
-
Development configurations for Code Climate and TravisCI
Changed
-
CSS refactored to adhere to stricter
stylelint
configuration
- JavaScript refactored to adhere to stricter
eslint
configuration
- Removed Atom configuration
-
Task runner to NPM
Fixed
-
Incorrect variable reference in
compat
template tag
- Static analysis and code sniffing issues
- Compat
webcomic_link
shortcodes not using $content
for link text
5.0.0 - Phoenix Down (2018-01-21)
Refactored everything into a functional component-based architecture.
Added
- Assets for the WordPress plugin directory
- Changelog to provide a curated, chronologically ordered list of notable changes for each version
- Code of conduct for project participants
- Contributing guidelines, issue template, and pull request template for project contributors
- Details view on plugin and collection settings pages
- Development configurations for Atom, Babel, Composer, Eslint, Git, Homebrew, MarkdownLint, Node, Phan, PHP Code Sniffer, PHPMD, PHPUnit, PostCSS, Rollup, Stylelint, and Vagrant
-
Support document for users
Changed
-
Alert functionality refactored into the
alert
component
- Character functionality refactored into the
character
and taxonomy
components
- Commerce functionality refactored into the
commerce
component
- Contextual help for all administrative screens
- Core functionality refactored into the
plugin
and collection
components
- CSS assets refactored based on component, processed with PostCSS
- Deprecated functionality refactored into the
compat
component
- Integration is now configurable in a new Customizer section
- JavaScript assets refactored based on component, processed with Babel, Rollup, and UglifyJS
- Plugin license is now GPL-2.0+
- Plugin versions now follow Semantic Versioning
- Readme now contains more descriptive, useful information
- Restrict functionality refactored into the
restrict
component
- Storyline functionality refactored into the
storyline
and taxonomy
components
- Transcript functionality refactored into the
transcribe
component
- Twitter functionality refactored into the
twitter
component
- User experience improved for all administrative screens
- Webcomic Attacher is now the Webcomic Matcher, lives in the Tools menu
- Webcomic Commerce is now the Webcomic IPN Log
-
Webcomic Generator now lives in the Tools menu
Deprecated
-
WebcomicTag
class
- All [Webcomic]-prefixed widgets
- All plugin-specific theme templates
- Custom media sizes and related features
- Data attributes for gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- The classic behavior of all shortcodes and template tags
- These shortcodes are fully deprecated:
[purchase_webcomic_link]
[the_related_webcomics]
[the_webcomic_characters]
[the_webcomic_collections]
[the_webcomic_storylines]
[the_webcomic]
[verify_webcomic_age]
[verify_webcomic_role]
[webcomic_character_avatar]
[webcomic_character_cloud]
[webcomic_character_crossovers]
[webcomic_collection_cloud]
[webcomic_collection_crossovers]
[webcomic_collection_poster]
[webcomic_collection_print_amount]
[webcomic_count]
[webcomic_crossover_description]
[webcomic_crossover_poster]
[webcomic_crossover_title]
[webcomic_donation_amount]
[webcomic_donation_form]
[webcomic_dropdown_characters]
[webcomic_dropdown_collections]
[webcomic_dropdown_storylines]
[webcomic_list_characters]
[webcomic_list_collections]
[webcomic_list_storylines]
[webcomic_print_adjustment]
[webcomic_print_amount]
[webcomic_print_form]
[webcomic_storyline_cloud]
[webcomic_storyline_cover]
[webcomic_storyline_crossovers]
[webcomic_transcripts_link]
- These template tags are fully deprecated:
has_webcomic_attachments
has_webcomic_crossover
have_webcomic_transcripts
is_a_webcomic_attachment
is_webcomic_archive
is_webcomic_attachment
is_webcomic_crossover
purchase_webcomic_link
the_related_webcomics
the_verify_webcomic_age
the_webcomic_characters
the_webcomic_collections
the_webcomic_storylines
the_webcomic_transcript_authors
the_webcomic_transcript_languages
the_webcomic
verify_webcomic_age
verify_webcomic_role
webcomic_character_avatar
webcomic_character_cloud
webcomic_character_crossovers
webcomic_collection_cloud
webcomic_collection_crossovers
webcomic_collection_poster
webcomic_collection_print_amount
webcomic_count
webcomic_crossover_description
webcomic_crossover_poster
webcomic_crossover_title
webcomic_donation_amount
webcomic_donation_fields
webcomic_donation_form
webcomic_dropdown_characters
webcomic_dropdown_collections
webcomic_dropdown_storylines
webcomic_dropdown_transcript_languages
webcomic_list_characters
webcomic_list_collections
webcomic_list_storylines
webcomic_list_transcript_languages
webcomic_print_adjustment
webcomic_print_amount
webcomic_print_fields
webcomic_print_form
webcomic_prints_available
webcomic_storyline_cloud
webcomic_storyline_cover
webcomic_storyline_crossovers
webcomic_transcript_fields
webcomic_transcripts_link
-
webcomic_transcripts_template
Removed
-
<meta>
tags for Generator and OpenGraph data
tmhOAuth
library
webcomic_image
property on WP_Term objects
webcomic-attachment-##
class for post_class()
Webcomic
theme header
- All component classes
- Collection sorting on the Pages screen
- Conversion options and related features
- Custom media sizes and related features
- Data attributes for dynamic comic loading
- Legacy upgrade tool and related features
- Outdated media contexts for the Media administrative screen
- Outdated plugin files and assets
-
Transcript language setting for collections
Fixed
-
Bugs found in previous releases