Child Theme Removes “Webcomic” Theme Customization

  • TheEFAF

    (@theefaf)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I’ve been developing my new webcomic website and since everything told me to create a child theme before I went in and did any drastic changes, so that’s what I’ve done. I’m using your latest Inkblot theme. However, making a child theme of Inkblot removes a menu option from the Customization menu that used to say “Webcomic”. It showed up right underneath “Additional CSS” and now it’s gone. I thought that wasn’t too important until I realized that without that menu, I can’t have “Webcomic attachments link to (next comic)” as my choice. My child theme is just about perfect in every way but this very important function is missing – with the child theme active, the webcomic images on my website don’t link to anything. How do I get this function back on a child theme?

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  • Thread Starter TheEFAF

    (@theefaf)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    I’m also attempting to have a very simple Archive page, and I’m absolutely pulling my hair out as I don’t know PHP. Aside from the fact that the “Archive” settings are ALSO gone from the child theme, all I want is an archive that looks like this:
    (1ST STORYLINE TITLE)
    (1ST WEBCOMIC TITLE) (2ND WEBCOMIC TITLE) (3RD WEBCOMIC TITLE) (ETC)
    (2ND STORYLINE TITLE)
    (4TH WEBCOMIC TITLE) (5TH WEBCOMIC TITLE) (ETC)
    (ETC)

    Due to how I have named these comics it should come out,
    Chapter 1
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
    Chapter 2
    9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
    Chapter 3
    18 19 20 21 22 23
    (etc)

    Seems simple, right? I don’t think even the normal “Archive” settings inside that Webcomic menu item handles an archive page like this. This is a commonly desired layout though for story-based comics so…

    Thread Starter TheEFAF

    (@theefaf)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    I just realized that a bunch of archive settings was available inside “Add New Page” even though your help file doesn’t list that this is how you create an archive page (in fact, the Webcomic beginner’s guide says that the only use for Pages is maybe an “about” page, so I never looked in individual page options for archive options). Of course, all the settings were inaccessible because creating a child theme caused it to cease being able to “see” webcomic and claimed it wasn’t installed instead.

    I’ve decided to simply toss the child theme and gut the main theme to act how I want since your plugin simply doesn’t work properly with child themes.

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