Hey guys!
As you can see the site looks different. WAAAAAY different.
The story goes like this: I came in my dashboard on WordPress and decided to update all the plug-ins and what nots that I was neglecting to update lately. One of them being the ComicPress update. So after all the updates were set, I logged back to the front page of the website and it looked like you’re looking at it right now. I seriously don’t know what the hell happened. It says it’s still running with ComicPress but it looks like the default WordPress layout. All the posts are there but it seems all the image files are gone. ALTHOUGH, as I write this, I’m looking at the box below this one I’m writing on and it shows the image file for today’s comic, so it tells me the files didn’t go away, just something happened that the Comic Press theme is not loading or something.
Be sure I’m working on getting this fixed and that hopefully this won’t stay like this for too long. I’m extremely annoyed by this and extremely sorry for the inconvenience I’m causing you guys. I can only ask you to be patient, I’ll get this back on ASAP.
UPDATES!!
Ok, so I’ve been goofing around with this thing and I kinda got it working.
-The comics are visible now. So that calms me down a bit.
-One of the guys who develops ComicPress helped me out a bit with this, although (and I understand it when things come natural and someone asks you and you assume they know), even if I told him, I don’t think he really grasped how stupid I am and that the new version of ComicPress became less intuitive.
-I have no idea at all of what’s going on with the menu bar, even condescendingly explained, it went nowhere and it still looks like it does instead of being in the actual bar as before.
-There’s this random series of letters and symbols at the end of the link of the browser URL that I don’t know where they come from. Those “#.UIU” thingies there. I’ve been told that those might be a hack.I have no idea how to get them off.
So, in a desperate pledge for help: Is anyone savvy enough to work around these problems and could help me out to bring back the site? At least to make it functional with the current theme I installed and I can work my way around it later on. Remember, I’m stupid when it comes to things like this, so if you offer your help, please either be patient or shove me out of the way and work your magic. So please, contact me at contact@supermariogonzalez.com
I’m not asking you to do it for free, by the way.
Mario A.~
PS: On a brighter note, if I needed an excuse to re-design the website, this is it.
Whenever ComicPress get’s updated on the WordPress repository it notifies each person using the theme if they want to upgrade to it. When the end user clicks the update this is what happens. 1) It REMOVES your current theme you have (deletes it rather) then 2) Replaces it with the updated version. 3) The configuration values for the comic and blog categories in the comicpress manager -> config are set to defaults since they are part of the theme files, so you set them again in the config.
So, at this point you probably edited the files, for the look of your site in the main theme, the one that got updated is why you lost everything. There are 2 ways to make sure that doesn’t happen on updates. 1) Using a child theme. 2) Using Jetpack’s ‘Edit CSS’ function.
A Child theme is a sub-theme to the main theme (which is comicpress) the child theme resides in a separate directory and retains all of the look and ‘feel’ of the site. Since it is in a different directory then the main theme it doesn’t get lost when you update the main theme.
The menubar is controlled with the dashboard -> appearance -> menus .. go set a menu and use the drop down in the upper left to decide which menubar position it goes in then click save.
The random letters and symbols – no idea, it could be something with one of your plugins or a hack. Disable all plugins one at a time until it goes away – if all plugins are disabled and it is still there, you know that it’s a hack and we need to fix that.
-Yeah, originally I did what you told me and went to the configuration and set the defaults back again and the comic showed up. As for setting back the menu bar, that was all my friends work, editing the files using his own layout/desing of his site. I have no idea how it went, he did everything and I barely comprehend it.
I did try going like that and making my own configuration for the menu, but it kept spreding on the side instead of lining up on the menu bar. My friend was confused as well and he couldn’t figure it out.
-As for the symbols, it’s a hack then. I deactivated all the plug ins, checked the website and they were still there. Eneabled them again and they are still there.
Is this the look of your old site?
http://web.archive.org/web/20110209061222/https://wyliman.com/
If it is, we can steal the CSS file information from it and put it back if you like. .. not really fond of it though
Yeah, that’s how it used to look like. And it’s okay, this current dummy layout is more accordingly with I had in mind to re-build the design of the website. I totally agree with you, I wasn’t fond of it either at all.
Unfortunately your friends CSS doesn’t really mix with the new update very well and it would probably be better if we started from a clean version and just added these colors into it in a blank child theme. I can do this for you if you like, would just need your login information emailed to me so I can jump in and clean it all up. (and FTP information so I can find where that hack is coming from) — that is, if you want my assistance on it.
Sure, sounds good, I’ll e-mail you the information in a sec.
And like I said in the post, charge me for your time working on this, I’m being completely distracting on something that might have been entirely easy to get around.
While I am in here, did you want to migrate to Comic Easel as well? .. The only issue that will pose is that you will have to relearn how to post comics up ;/ but it’s definitely more intuitive to posting then comicpress is.
Uhm, heheh, it’s in my intentions, but let’s go one step at a time. First, I’ll have to get used to this one again when I sit down and plan the new design and apply it. But it’s in mind, I know I’m going to use Comic Easel with my other webcomic.
Oof, ehh. I would also like to know what doesn’t work on this friend’s CSS on the new update (because I AM that friend and would like for my site to not go PFFFBRT) haha..