For the sake of presentation, I’ve installed some plugins to give me a little more customizability on this site. One plugin gives me the ability to use custom headers on a per-post/page/chapter basis. After I installed the plugin, the main header on the site stopped working for some reason. The other plugin I installed lets me edit the CSS on individual pages. This way, each page can have its own look. I’m very fond of the idea of the site’s appearance changing depending on the context of the content displayed. My coworkers think that the way a work is presented should take a backseat to the work itself.
But I think that good presentation is vital to getting eyes on your work.
Now, I need to figure out how to edit the Archives layout to look how I want it to. ComicPress’ Archives shortcode only allows for displaying comic archives as a list with a single thumbnail. For my comic, I want to display all the pages in a given chapter as a thumbnail gallery. Readers should have the option to know which page is which at a cursory glance.
Can’t have a good presentation if the site breaks.
Additionally, I need to create a child theme for the site. Assuming that doing so doesn’t undo any of my recent progress, this should help in facilitating a more customized presentation. I’ve also read that doing so helps prevent the loss of certain changes whenever a theme is updated. It honestly sounds pretty important that I take care of that. It would suck if I accidentally undid all this hard work with the push of a button.
I also have to find a plugin that can give my site a good mobile device view. Jetpack has its own mobile view generator but it has compatibility issues with ComicPress. Aside from getting everything to look pretty, it’s also important to address any accessibility issues that arise.
Just some of the challenges of working with outdated themes, I suppose.
