1. Manga+Press no longer has its own top-level menu. To summarize the reason for this change: it seemed rather pointless for Manga+Press to have its own section. Here are the locations of the Manga+Press pages:
   1. Manga+Press Options is now located under Settings.
   2. Post New Comic is now located under Posts.
      • 2.5 introduced the option of using Add New to post comics, and if you want more control then that is what I’d suggest. Post New Comic is still limited to uploading files 500KB or smaller; using WordPress’s own interface gets around this limitation.
   3. Manga+Press Uninstall is located under Plugins.
   4. Series has been eliminated
   5. Manga+Press Dashboard has been eliminated.
2. As you know, Manga+Press 2.5 was supposed to have the option of automatically modifying your Latest Comic and Comic Archive pages but had to be eliminated due to issues. These options are now enabled in Manga+Press 2.9. To enable them, all you have to do is specify pages for Latest Comic and Comic Archives.
   • Tip:
     • If you wish to use your own custom pages, then this option can be disabled by not selecting any pages for Latest Comic and Comic Archive (or setting the dropdown to the blank option).
     • If you’re using a custom theme from WordPress.org, then it is suggested that you test whether or not that theme can handle the automatic insertion options. I do know that some themes—specifically magazine-style themes—don’t handle that option all that well so it is probably better to create a custom template page for your latest comic and comic archive pages.

Getting Started

Read this section first! To get started:

1. Create a new category and two new pages — or feel free to use existing pages and categories.
2. Go to the Manga+Press Options page and set your comic category and latest comic and comic archive pages to the categories and pages you wish to display your comics on.
3. Activate the “Automatically insert comic navigation code into comic posts” option and
   • If you wish to exclude your comic posts from appearing in your regular blog, then select the “Exclude comic category from front page” option.

That’s it! You’re done!

Modifying a 3rd party Theme

You might not have to modify the theme in question. Activate the “Automatically insert comic navigation code into comic posts” option. It’s on the first tab of the Manga+Press Options page. Click that and also select “Exclude comic category from front page,” then click the Update Options button. If everything appears okay, then you shouldn’t have to modify anything. If there are some glitches, then you may to adjust your theme. Check out the section on Manga+Press’s Template Tags to get started.

The first bug I discovered had to do with the new “filter comic posts from front page” option. Apparently, when this option is enabled, it would cause the Edit Pages (edit-pages.php) to throw a 404 when the page was accessed.

Another bug related to this same option was sometimes causing a WordPress install to throw a 500 Internal Server Error. I tracked it down to which hook I was using to call the function that filters the categories. So I’ve changed that, and there doesn’t seem to be a problem with the WordPress installations in question.

Another very minor bug had to do with the “insert comic banner on front page” option. That was more of a formatting issue that had to do with where I had a curly brace placed. That has been corrected as well.

Finally, the (knocks-on-wood) last bug I found has to do with the Latest Comic page option. In Manga+Press 2.5, all you had to do was set the page and it would automatically filter the page’s content to include the comic navigation and comic post. Well, in a pre-release version of Manga+Press 2.5, there was a minor bug that would prevent WordPress from adding current_page_item to the page navigation css. Well, very minor but annoying bug that I found a fix for but unfortunately, under certain conditions, that “fix” produced another bug that would cause the Latest Comic Page to throw a 500 Internal Server Error. *sigh* So that feature has been disabled as well.

Updated 10.14.09
One workaround is in your current theme, create a new document called page-latest-comic.php and then copy-and-paste the code below into the new document:

        

        

        
        

           	
        	

            
			
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Now, you might have to adjust the formatting to match your current theme; possibly even moving the get_sidebar() and get_footer() tags to match your own theme.

The second workaround is to take your current theme, and take either the page.php or the single.php (if the theme doesn’t have a page.php file) and copy it to something like page-latest-comic.php. Open the page-latest-comic.php file and:

1. Look at the top of the file. If you don’t see something like the code below, then copy & page it into the file:

   <?php
   /*
    Template Name: Latest Comic Page
   */
   ?>

2. Next, look for the start of the WordPress Loop. It’s usually indicated by <?php if ( have_posts() ): ?>
3. Right below that line, copy and paste the following lines of code:
   <?php if( is_comic_page() ) { wp_comic_navigation( wp_comic_last() ); }?>
<?php query_posts("cat=".$mp_options[latestcomic_cat]."&showposts=1"); ?>
4. Finally, look for the end of the WordPress Loop, usually indicated by <?php endif; ?> and add this: <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> directly below that line.
5. Close, save and upload the file to your WordPress theme’s directory. Then log into your WordPress install and go to Edit Pages. Find the page you designated as your latest comic page, and using Quick Edit, find the Page Template dropdown and select  Latest Comic Page.
6. Finally, click Update Page. That should be all.