Comic Easel

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');
}

Two new options,

Open Comic With Lightbox
- This is a checkmark in the comic post editor which will allow whatever lightbox plugin you are using to open the comic up to display the full size of it if you are using an extra large image.

Changing the comic slug name.
- The URL line /comic/ can be changed to whatever slug name you want to use now. NOTE: You cannot use a slug that already exists as a slug in your tags/posts/chapters/categories – etc.

1.0.21 – >added a checker to see if the slug was already in use and inform you in the config section, as well as additional checks to see if the value is ‘comic’ or empty on preexisting installation.