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Manga+Press News & Updates

Jess G. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:31:41 +0000

Manga+Press 2.0 beta is getting set to roll out sometime this week. A number of changes have been made to Manga+Press, namely the way Manga+Press uploads the comic pages. However, before users can upgrade, one of the files in the current release branch needs to be patched first.

The reason is the hook that is called when Manga+Press is deactivated. The hook deletes all of the options and the two tables Manga+Press uses to keep track of comic posts. Since the proper way of upgrading a plugin usually involves deactivation and deletion of the files, this could be a problem for some users. However, I went ahead and tested the deactivation procedure on the server and…nothing happened. So either there is a bug in 2.7 (fortunate in this case) or the hook in question is no longer being used. Either way, I suggest either downloading the patch I’ve provided or backing up your database; the latter always being a wise choice whenever you’re upgrading a plugin, of course.

Manga+Press: http://manga-press.silent-shadow.net/
Download Patch: mangapress patch

Manga+Press 1.0 RC2.5, bug-fix version

Jess G. — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:56:47 +0000

RC2.5 bugfixes inside.Yeah, another RC release. This time, it’s because I caught a fairly major bug with the directory-creation process when Manga+Press uploads a new comic page. Permissions aren’t being set correctly so if you do something like try to delete the files through FTP or an online file-manager (like cPanel’s File Manager), it’ll give you a rather ominous “permission denied” error. Fortunately, the fix is fairly simple—that is, if your web host allows this.

Create a PHP file and name it…something…test.php…whatever, doesn’t matter as long as you can remember what it is Insert the following lines of code into your file:

Upload the file to your wp-content/uploads directory and then open it in your browser. The filename part may or may not be necessary; I tried it both ways and it seemed to work when I added the name of a file that was inside the directory I was trying to change. Try it without the file name first, and if you get an error; add the name of a file inside the directory and if you still get an error then try changing the permissions on the test.php file itself to 777 or 755. If you’re still getting errors, then it’s time to contact your web host and have them set the correct permissions on the folders in question.

At this point, what I want is feedback from anyone who has downloaded and is using the plugin in question. If you’ve run into errors, I’d like to know about it. If you send me a bug report, be sure to include the following:

WordPress version (very important)
Plugins installed (also very very important)
Screenshots of the possible bug in question
and, if you have access to this: Web server configuration info
- Server version and config info
- PHP version and config info
- MySQL version and config info

Look for my email address in the readme.txt file that comes with the plugin. Sorry, but I really don’t want to give spam-bots a chance to harvest my email address. You can use the contact form here if you like but you won’t be able to send screen-shots.

Manga+Press 1.0RC2 Released!

Jess G. — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:19:07 +0000

First off, if you’re getting the “new version” prompt, ignore the link because it doesn’t work. It was something that I overlooked when I released the first version about a week back; that’s one of the things that has been corrected in RC2. You can download the new version here or here. Most of the corrections that I’ve done were fairly minor, and had more to do with XHTML Strict validation than with actual functionality. I noticed that my “Latest Comic” page would come up as invalid whenever I sent it through W3C’s XHTML validator. I traced the problem to the way Manga+Press handles the tag. Honestly, that was a result of an older, unreleased version that I’ve been using for a few months, but it also made me look at the code and make a few corrections. I also added the correction for the RSS cache bug that’s present in WordPress 2.7.

Enjoy, and Happy New Year!

Manga+Press Status

Jess G. — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:01:21 +0000

A little status update on Manga+Press 1.0 RC1. I’ve been shaking out bugs and reworking some of the code. I hope to have it out for release sometime next week, followed by a “skeleton” WordPress theme that works with the plugin. Right now, I’m testing Manga+Press out using a modified version of the Kubrik theme that comes with WordPress.

I’m aiming for a Friday release, so check back for more info!

Manga+Press Coming!

Jess G. — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:46:38 +0000

I’ve been working on a comic manager plugin since the beginning of this year. After many starts and stops and road-blocks, I’m happy to announce that in time for 2009, I will be releasing my comic manager plugin for WordPress called Manga+Press!

Stay tuned for details!