Jess

Hi, which version of Manga+Press are you using? I removed child-themes from the plugin with version Manga+Press 3.0. The instructions in the README regarding Multi-site support would be obsolete since they dealt primarily with the child-themes.

Anyway, I haven’t fully tested Manga+Press against Multi-site, so I’ll check this out and see if I can reproduce.

Without a visual, I’m not sure what you’re asking. The navigation should be present on each comic page, since Manga+Press is filtering the_content and replacing it with the output of the code displayed above. If you can provide me with a link to the site, and the theme you’re using, I’ll be happy to help.

If you need to make the navigation links bigger, that can be accomplished with CSS and media queries instead of trying to change the template code.

Sorry, I don’t do freelance work. Especially not now—I’m working full-time and trying to find a new job (also a full-time job). The biggest reason I normally don’t provide support for purchased themes is there is no way for me to review the code without having the user violate the license, plus premium themes tend to be rather lacking in code-quality when compared with themes from the WordPress Theme Directory, which all go through a review process.

Anyway, if you’re still having trouble, can you send me a zipped version of your child-theme (send it to [email protected])? Also, what is the name of the theme you purchased?

It looks like you’re extending Relativity with a child-theme, and your child-theme is missing some markup. You’re missing <div class="primary-menu-container"></div>, which wraps the navigation in the Relativity theme. You’re also missing <div id="content" class="site-content"></div> that wraps the main content area directly below the <header> tag.

Finally, in your child-theme, try adding the following code-block to your style.css file:

.entry-header {
	text-align: center;
	padding: 20px;
	margin-bottom: 15px;
	margin-top: 50px;
}

Technically, all you should need is margin-top: 50px — this basically corrects the issue with the comic’s title floating under the navigation. If you had a reason for removing the wrapper tags that I noted above, then you can try margin-top: 75px;.

Please let me know if this helps. Cheers!

Unfortunately, I don’t provide support for premium (purchased) themes but from inspecting the page, your problem page is missing the navigation and markup specific to Manga+Press. Manga+Press uses the_content filter to add the comic markup to single-view comic pages if single-comic.php isn’t present in the theme. Basically, single comic pages uses either single.php or index.php (check out WordPress’ template hierarchy: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/files/2014/10/wp-hierarchy.png). I’m guessing that single.php isn’t present, and index.php is missing the the_content() function (which runs the_content filter).

What might be easier to do is extend your current theme with a child-theme. Copy page.php to that child-theme. Then finally, rename page.php to single-comic.php. The reason I’m suggesting creating a child-theme is so that your changes don’t get blown away if you update the parent theme down the line.

I’ve written some documentation on how to get a theme to play nice with Manga+Press, but you will also want to read the WordPress documentation on themes and child-themes as well.

WordPress Child Themes: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Manga+Press template tags & functions: https://developers.manga-press.com/

Theme Customization: https://docs.manga-press.com/getting-started/theme-customization.html

It’s going to depend on if you’re using a theme you made yourself, or if you’re using a theme that you downloaded. If you made the theme yourself, then you’d copy index.php or single.php to single-comic.php, then you would edit that new file. If you’re using a theme that you downloaded, then it’s best to extend it by creating a child-theme, and then following the steps I listed above.

Basically, what you want to do doesn’t actually have to do with Manga+Press itself — it’s basically theme customization. I’ve some documentation on how to get a theme to play nice with Manga+Press, but you will also want to read the WordPress documentation as well.

Theme Customization: https://docs.manga-press.com/getting-started/theme-customization.html

Manga+Press template tags & functions: https://developers.manga-press.com/

WordPress Child Themes: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Also, nice comic ??

You still have the Default CSS option enabled. Change that option to Custom CSS, then try adding the following code-block to your style.css file. This should center your navigation:

/* comic navigation */
.comic-nav-hlist-wrapper {
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 0; /* fixes inline-block spacing issues */
    margin: 5px 0 10px 0;
    padding: 0;
    clear: both;
    float: none;
}
 
.comic-nav-hlist {
    font-size: 16px;
    list-style: none;
}
 
.comic-nav-hlist > li {
    display: inline-block;
    margin-right: 10px;
}

• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by Jess.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by Jess. Reason: additional verbiage

Thanks for the feedback. I wished I’d seen this before I released 3.0 — particularly the social media integration, which is something I overlooked. I suspect all that needs to happen is for the opengraph meta tags to be added to the comic templates.

Once again, thanks!

Line 2007 in your style.css has a CSS rule that’s targeting any selector containing the word ‘span’ using a wild-card selector (.row-fluid [class*="span"]). Normally, I would have suggested changing that rule, but since it’s hard to predict what else it might affect, it’s faster to add a rule that targets the .comic-nav-span selector specifically:

.comic-nav-span {
    min-height: 0 !important;
    float: none !important;
}

Good rule of thumb is to avoid using !important when possible, but I think we might be good for this use-case.

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Jess.
• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Jess. Reason: grammar, and missing words

Try using this: https://pastebin.com/azEnLUcH

Just copy over the section of your style.css that starts at /* comic navigation */. This will center both the image and the navigation.

Without seeing what your site looks like, the best I can suggest is something like:

.comic-navigation {
    margin: 10px auto;
    display: block;
}

That’s weird, but I can tell you that column isn’t being used anywhere in the plugin. In fact, Manga+Press doesn’t do any custom DB work with WordPress, or rather it hasn’t since before version 2.0 but even then, I never had to create extra columns.

Question: which version of Manga+Press are you using? Is it 2.9.3 or the beta that I have available on GitHub?

Suggestion: try checking other plugins to see if they might have added that extra column. Does the DB error tell you what table this column exists in?

I’m sorry, but beyond the suggestions, there isn’t much that I can do.

You could try using the beta version of Manga+Press 3.0, which includes a sorting/sort by option for the archive page: https://github.com/jesgs/mangapress/archive/3.0.zip. It is still in beta, though.

Is it possible to use the comic navigation and not have it leave the front page

Not easily, no. Manga+Press uses a custom post-type for the comics. It does not use the default WordPress post. You would need to modify the default query for your index page to show the comics on the home page, which could affect your blog posts.

I am trying to incorporate the manga press slider into my index.php so that it shows up right above my latest blog posts.
I have borrowed some of the code from the plugin but all I can get to show up is the navigation. The navigation will take you to another comic but the initial one does not show up.

I think this ties into the question that I answered above. If you’re using the navigation in a loop intended for normal WordPress posts, the navigation won’t function correctly.