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Plugin Description
Webcomic Creator Studio allows you to generate and publish 3-panel webcomics automatically using character and background images you provide, with your own custom text and title and captions. The comics are saved as image files and displayed on posts. It includes a navigation system for visitors to move through your comic archives and a queue system that will automatically post new comics on the days you want to schedule updates (or you can use a button to immediately post a new comic).
Features
- Comics are saved as images onto your server and automatically posted from a queue according to an update schedule that you set. Choose which days a new comic is added and comics will be pulled from the queue and published live to your site on those days. This allows you to create your comics days or weeks in advance and not have to worry about being around to post them.
- Characters and backgrounds can be uploaded easily through the options menu, using the Wordpress Media Library. A character can have as many images as you want and you can choose which image to use in each panel.
- Previews of the next comic are automatically generated which show only the first of the 3 panels.
- The full transcript of a comic is automatically stored and used as the “alt” property when a comic is displayed.
- First/Last/Next/Previous/Random navigation links are automatically added beneathe each comic.
- Shortcodes give you more control over where things are placed on your site. [webcomic-preview] when added to a page with a comic on it (even in the sidebar) will show the next comic preview, and [webcomic-display-comic] will display the latest comic wherever you place it.
- Word or thought bubbles are automatically sized according to the size of your character so they fit in the panels. You can change the font size from a dropdown menu to make sure that the text fits.
Screenshots
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The screen in the admin section where you create a new comic. It is automatically previewed as you go.
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The lower portion of the comic creation screen in the admin section.
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The comic queue. New comics, when saved, are added to the unqueued list. Once you move them to the queued list, they are available to be published.
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The options page in the admin section.
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Backgrounds can be uploaded from a tab in the options page in the admin section.
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Characters can also be created from another tab in the options page. Once you create a character you can upload images for that character.
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An example of a comic published to a website, with the navigation links and a preview of the next comic in line.
