Easel breaks with the next WordPress update, so I’m giving Toocheke a try.
Once everything is reconfigured enough that nothing should be broken, I’ll update this post with a “comment if you see anything broken” message. Stay tuned.
ETA, 11:30 AM:
I followed the official “import your comics from Comic Easel/Comicpress” tutorial, so now I just have a full Toocheke site! Finally brought it into the 2020s.
Working:
- Comics all look nice, stayed in order, are correctly sorted by chapter
- The 170 still-queued pages look like they imported fine [ETA: they did not! Have reached out to the theme creator about it.]
- Menu is good
- Most of the menu pages are, if not as pretty as before, at least functional
Not working:
- Character tags. They show up under each comic, but only to go to a broken link [ETA: working now! I guess it just took that long to index]
- Fonts imported from Google. Text shows up in the Overlock font when I’m logged in, but not when I view the site in a private window — readers, is it working for you?
- Search for comic text. I get search results for words in comic titles, and blog entry titles/text, but not comic entry text [ETA: the latest update to Toocheke fixes this]
- “All pages in chapter” gives you just a list of comic images, no links to the individual pages with notes/comment sections/etc
- [ETA] In the already-posted pages, the conversion process ate all the paragraph breaks. Every transcript is now mashed together in a single block of text. [ETA 2: The latest update to Toocheke should fix this for future imports! But my already-imported ones are stuck as-is, and I don’t plan to go manually fixing them.]
- [ETA] New comics aren’t showing up in the RSS feed. Have notified the Toocheke creator, cross your fingers for another update
Currently I don’t have a child theme. And it looks like I might need one, to adjust some of the more finicky details. (Mobile site layout triggers when the browser is under 992 pixels wide, really??)
In the short term, though, a chunk of ad-hoc custom CSS can carry us through. It’s enough to get the BICP site style and visual branding on track.
ETA, 10 PM the next day:
Knuckled down and spent most of the evening on a child theme! It is, again, up to Mostly Functional. Here’s the actual CSS, if you want to take a look under the hood.
Still haven’t sorted out everything, but all the edits from the ad-hoc CSS should’ve been incorporated here. Plus a range of new fixes and customizations, large and small.
ETA, Nov 23:
Throughout the week after this post, I pushed a couple dozen updates (with increasingly-minor changes) to the BICP For Toocheke child theme. The latest one is from November 20, and I haven’t touched it since, so we might be done?
If you spot anything that’s still glitchy and/or hard to read, let me know.
10 thoughts on “Got to update the BICP site theme, everyone hold tight”
Erin Ptah
Test-replying to see how this looks, don’t mind me.
But I'm A Cat Person
Test-replying to see how this looks, don’t mind me.
HKMaly
I’m surprised noone is updating Comic Easel to fix the compatibility. It looks like popular theme … does this mean you will also update Leif & Thorn?
HKMaly
Did you noticed that on character page https://www.bicatperson.com/comic-character/lydia-ann/ when you hover over the line with comic, it’s “highlighted” to be black text on black background?
Erin Ptah
I am also surprised! But I’ve given up on it changing.
Leif & Thorn uses the Inkblot theme, which hasn’t broken. (Yet. Knock wood.)
I see the weird highlighting on the character pages. That’s one of the color issues I plan to fix once I have time to set up a full child theme.
HKMaly
More serious issue which is probably related: I don’t see comics on RSS feed. This is last entry RSS feed is showing, and you added more comics meanwhile.
Erin Ptah
Thanks for this, I’ve let the plugin creator know!
QuailFence
The image for the as of this writing most recent update (Annotated Chapter 25 Page 24) does not appear, whether or not I’m looking at it on the home page or the permalink. The previous page looks okay
QuailFence
To clarify: The comic image does not load. The image in the annotation does
Erin Ptah
Fixed, thanks!
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