Webcomic
Comic publishing power for the web. Turn your WordPress-powered site into a comic publishing platform with Webcomic.
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Customer support & learning resources
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Main benefits
Organizes comics into collections
Integrates comics into themes
Automatic comic publishing tools
Customizable comic URL settings
Character and storyline tagging
About this plugin
Categories: Content Management
Version: 5.0.8
Last updated: 11-05-2022
WordPress version: 4.7
Tested up to: 5.9.10
PHP version required: 7.0
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Learning resources: View resources
Overview
Webcomic is a comprehensive WordPress plugin designed to facilitate the creation, management, and sharing of comics online. It organizes comics into collections, allowing the publication of multiple comic series with unique settings on a single WordPress site. The plugin integrates seamlessly with most themes through a new Customizer section, and offers advanced tools like the Generator for automatic comic creation and the Matcher for media-to-comic matching. Webcomic also provides additional components for enhanced functionality, including email alerts for updates, character tagging, PayPal integration for print sales, access restrictions, storyline organization, transcription for SEO, and Twitter integration for automatic updates. Whether you're a casual comic creator or a professional, Webcomic offers the flexibility and features needed to efficiently manage your online comic presence.
Comic Management
- Organizes comics into collections – custom post types dedicated to a specific comic series.
- Allows publishing any number of distinct comic series on a single WordPress site.
- Each series can have its own unique settings.
- Utilizes WordPress’ own media management features for managing comic media.
Theme Integration
- Adds a new section to the Customizer for integrating comics into your site’s theme.
- Supports most themes with the Universal integration method.
- Provides methods for integrating with themes built specifically for Webcomic and other comic plugins.
- Allows use of custom actions to add comic features exactly where you want them.
Powerful Tools
- Includes a variety of tools for working with comics and getting them up and running.
- Generator tool automatically creates and publishes comics for uploaded media items.
- Matcher tool matches media items with existing comics.
- Collection-specific settings help organize comics into categories and tags, customize URLs, and more.
Unlimited Potential
- Includes additional components like Alert, Character, Commerce, Restrict, Storyline, Transcribe, and Twitter.
- Alert adds settings for creating buffer and hiatus email alerts.
- Character allows tagging character appearances and using character-based archives.
- Commerce adds PayPal-based print selling and donation features.
- Restrict adds features for restricting access to comics based on age or user role.
- Storyline allows organizing comics by storyline and using storyline-based archives.
- Transcribe adds comic transcription features for SEO-enhancing text alternatives.
- Twitter adds settings for updating your Twitter account status when publishing comics.
Rating and reviews
madabril
22 Jan, 2021
Great plugin bogged down by limited support.
LukeA
13 Apr, 2018
I tried several of the other plug ins and this one works great for me. It was a little bit of a learning curve, but what isn’t? I like the fact that I can load and schedule all my comics for months out!
Derek Padula
08 Feb, 2018
This is the only comic plugin I found that actually worked. All of the others were either inadequate or included way too much. This plugin was simple and modifiable.
Of course, I had a lot of trouble setting this plugin up when it was in the 4.0 version, and each time I updated it, it seemed to break by replacing the loop file that had custom code in it. But I got used to it.
When I upgraded to the 5.0 version it caused a lot of breaking issues across the site. Luckily, Mike offered free tech support. I created an admin account for him through WordPress, he went in, and resolved the issues the same day, at no charge!
It’s rare to find customer support like that. Especially without paying for it. This alone makes it a plugin worth using.
emilysparkle
20 Oct, 2016
won’t install on fresh wordpress instance.
This topic was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by emilysparkle.
paulchrisjones
18 Sep, 2016
I thought this plugin would make it easy to integrate comics into my site. But the trouble is, I can’t get the plugin to work. The hundreds of pages of documentation don’t help and the support forums are all but dead.
The main problem is that this plugin is too complicated.
This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by paulchrisjones.
