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Place the chapter archive dropdown into the Easel menubar.

May28

by Frumph on May 28, 2013 at 12:48 am

Posted In: Code Snippets, Comic Easel (Plugin), Easel (Theme)

This only works if you’re using the Easel theme, but this code will place the comic archive dropdown into the menubar if you want it there.

You add this to your child theme’s functions.php

add_action('easel-menubar-after','mytheme_add_archive_dropdown_to_menubar');

function mytheme_add_archive_dropdown_to_menubar() {
	echo '<div class="menubar-archive-dropdown">';
	if (function_exists('ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter')) ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter();
	echo '</div>';
}

Then you can skin / clean up the look with some extra CSS add this to your child theme’s style.css

.menubar-archive-dropdown { float: right; display: inline-block; }

And there you have it, it will then display the comic archive chapter dropdown to the menubar with the Easel theme.

- Phil

Additional functionality added, the function now accepts two arguments, unhide hidden chapters (because they’re empty, i.e. show empty chapters) and you can exclude certain chapters from showing (comma separated)

ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter($unhide = false, $exclude = '') {

so the line in the function above would look something like this:

if (function_exists('ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter')) ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter(true, '3,4,5');

Or you can just put ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter() by itself without arguments and that will work fine, or even ceo_comic_archive_jump_to_chapter(true); by itself if you wanted. It’s all good.

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Adding another custom taxonomy to your comics

May17

by Frumph on May 17, 2013 at 3:55 pm

Posted In: Code Snippets, Comic Easel (Plugin)

So, you want to track all of the artists and which comics that they worked on. Then add this bit of code to your CHILD THEME’s functions.php file.

$labels = array(
		'name' => __( 'Artists', 'comiceasel'),
		'singular_name' => __( 'Artist', 'comiceasel' ),
		'search_items' =>  __( 'Search Artists', 'comiceasel' ),
		'popular_items' => __( 'Popular Artists', 'comiceasel' ),
		'all_items' => __( 'All Artists', 'comiceasel' ),
		'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Artist', 'comiceasel' ),
		'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Artist:', 'comiceasel' ),
		'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Artist', 'comiceasel' ), 
		'update_item' => __( 'Update Artist', 'comiceasel' ),
		'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Artist', 'comiceasel' ),
		'new_item_name' => __( 'New Artist Name', 'comiceasel' ),
		);

register_taxonomy('artists', 'comic', array(
			'hierarchical' => true,
			'public' => true,
			'labels' => $labels,
			'show_ui' => true,
			'query_var' => true,
			'show_tagcloud' => false,
			'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'artist', 'with_front' => true, 'feeds' => false ),
			));
			
register_taxonomy_for_object_type('artists', 'comic');	

add_action('comic-post-info', 'ceo_child_display_comic_artist_info');

function ceo_child_display_comic_artist_info() {
	global $post;
	if ($post->post_type == 'comic') {
		$before = '<div class="comic-artists">'.__('Artist','comiceasel').': ';
		$sep = ', ';
		$after = '</div>';
		echo get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'artists', $before, $sep, $after );
	}
}

The way this is written allows for yoururl.com/artist/artists-slug to display all of the comics that the taxonomy is associated with; This will also add another menu item under Comics -> Artists AND include the option in the comic editor to add them. The above code also makes it act like ‘categories’ .. if you want it to be more like tags and not have parent child relationships, you would change the ‘hierarchical’ => true, to ‘hierarchical’ => false

If you wanted to add one for writers, just find EVERY (and I mean every) place it says artist and change it to writer, including the function names and function references. (remember you can’t have two functions with the same name in the code)

└ Tags: Child Theme

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Changelog 1.3.6 – Introducing Comic Easel – Import (bulk comic upload)

Apr29

by Frumph on April 29, 2013 at 1:34 pm

Posted In: Comic Easel (Plugin)

in 1.3.6, the comic easel import was made. This is meh, largely untested except on my dev machine, but if you have the need to add a bunch of comics at a time; this is what you would use right now.

The first release of the import uses the ComicPress naming convention for files, YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-comic.extension

You FTP into your site, create a directory off of the root of your WordPress installation and name it ‘import’ … FTP the comics you want to import into that directory. Create the chapter (or make sure it’s added) in the Comic -> Chapters section of the wp-admin and then.

Rinse repeat for set of comics, in each ‘chapter’ you want to add. If you only have a basic chapter made for all comics, don’t stress about it; you can still use that main chapter.

Like always, try not to overload your system’s processing by adding too many comics at once.. keep the importing at a min. I suggest 20-30 comics at a time max for good solid hosting and 5-10 comics max if your hosting isn’t really that great.

NOTE: It will actually add comics that are set on the same date, just currently not modify the time on it and there’s a big change the image won’t get attached.. known bug on that so I just currently say don’t do it.

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Implementation of a ‘secondary’ featured image to use as a custom ‘teaser’ image.

Apr22

by Frumph on April 22, 2013 at 9:24 pm

Posted In: Comic Easel (Plugin)

Purpose: To display a ‘teaser’ image of your comic that is used in the thumbnail widget (and anywhere else you might want to code it in, like the home page) that is a custom image – not the thumbnail of your comic.

Basically it’s support for this plugin: Multiple Post Thumbnails

What it does is add another ‘add image’ box to the right column in the comic post editor, which asks you to upload an image just like the way the featured image (adding a comic) works. Soon as it uploads you click on “use as secondary image”.

There is an option in the thumbnail widget that you checkmark to say “use secondary image if it’s available”, in order for the widget to decide to use it or not at that point.

- Phil

(you still need to add something to your functions.php to make it work, new Easel not yet released will have it automatically)

if (class_exists('MultiPostThumbnails')) {
	new MultiPostThumbnails(
		array(
			'label' => 'Secondary Image',
			'id' => 'secondary-image',
			'post_type' => 'comic'
			));
	add_image_size('secondary-image');
}

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