I’m sure most of you admire cartoons and have your personal favorite cartoon character. How many of you actually visit xkcd.com? One of the best cartoon websites known pretty much for it’s humor and simplicity.
Ever thought of publishing comics online and getting those cartoon freaks to hit your website more frequently than you would expect? How about publishing comics using WordPress and a cool WordPress theme, specially built for this very purpose? Yes, I’m talking about ComicPress.
ComicPress is developed and maintained by Tyler Martin, who originally created it for publishing his own comic, Wally & Osborne. The first version of this theme was seen way back in November, 2005. A lot has been done on the theme to get it to where it is today.
ComicPress has a pretty clean layout and is easy enough for you to build on. With a couple of changes in the Stylesheet you may have your own custom comic Website in no time! It is free to download and use.
The latest release of ComicPress theme is available in 5 layouts:
- Standard Edition — A traditional, single blog column having a single sidebar under the comic. Generally known to work well with a horizontal or full-page comic.
- 3-Column Edition — Just to cater your 3-column need, it features a wider page than the Standard Edition. This layout gives you one more sidebar to work on.
- Vertical Edition — To publish narrow or tall comics, you need this one. Pretty much similar to the standard layout, but with the sidebar beside the comic, filling in the extra space.
- Vertical 3-Column Edition — Similar to the 3-column edition, it adds an extra sidebar to the Vertical Edition, binding the comic between the two sidebars.
- Graphic Novel Edition — This edition lets you to display your content alongside the large full-page comics.
The layouts are pretty much similar and are designed to give you that extra flexibility to help it suit your blog and comic. The CSS written from the scratch, unlike it’s previous versions which had it based on the WordPress default theme. It’s a great looking and out of the box theme for all comic publishers to dirty their hands on.
However, this theme is pretty much incomplete without a plugin called ComicPress Manager, a plugin written exclusively for the ComicPress theme by John Bintz. This plugin adds a ComicPress management interface to the WordPress Admin panel. This lets you configure the theme and upload comics, on the fly. As you upload a comic it shall also create the post to go along with it. You may even batch the uploads for future! The best part is, if you already have a large archive, you can allow it to make all the comic posts for you, effortlessly enough!
Do not miss this if you’re planning to start or move to a comic blog!
You can have a demo of the theme and can download it too, all for free! Before you go on to install this theme, this read me is highly recommended.
Enjoy!
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Awesome! I have always been wanting to start my cartoon drawing again and put it online somehow. This sounds like a good solution! Buddy, you’re like answering all my ‘prayers’ so far. Cool.
@ Kay Kastum: Thank you for your sweet words! I hope I can help you with better posts in future, listening to all your ‘prayers’ in advance!