Title: Preview Article Plugin and Webcomic help
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Preview Article Plugin and Webcomic help

 *  [mot13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mot13/)
 * (@mot13)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-article-plugin-and-webcomic-help/)
 * Hello!
    This is actually a two parter question I’m having some difficulty composing
   my wordpress theme.
 * I’d like to have a dynamic preview window displaying a small image that shows
   a teaser of the article or comic that is posted in a particular category.
 * Is there a simple way to go about this? I’m having trouble with figuring it out.
   I’ve had moderate success doing a catch that image function on the first image
   in the post but often times the image is too large and looks terrible when generated
   in the small preview window.
 * I’d like for the preview image to be small and perhaps a cropped version of its
   larger parent.
 * _
    My next question is…
 * I’d like my theme to offer articles as well as a webcomic I’m doing. What is 
   the best way to go about this? I’m lost in this regard I can’t think of an organized
   or efficient way to host a webcomic on my site.
 * I’m using the Penny-Arcade.com website as a model for my own if that helps.
 * I sincerely appreciate any help you can offer me. Thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-article-plugin-and-webcomic-help/#post-3813164)
 * > I’d like for the preview image to be small and perhaps a cropped version of
   > its larger parent.
 * A larger parent what? Assuming you mean a larger parent image, why not make use
   of the featured image functionality – with a custom [add_image_size()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_image_size)
   if necessary?
 * > What is the best way to go about this?
 * You could look at using [Post Formats](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Formats)
   with the image format being used for a web comic and the standard (default) format
   being used for articles.
 *  Thread Starter [mot13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mot13/)
 * (@mot13)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-article-plugin-and-webcomic-help/#post-3813167)
 * > A larger parent what? Assuming you mean a larger parent image, why not make
   > use of the featured image functionality – with a custom add_image_size() if
   > necessary?
 * Oh wow, I see this has a crop parameter as well. Will I have to use this function
   on the Image in the article and then call on it. I had no idea this existed I’ll
   try it
 * > You could look at using Post Formats with the image format being used for a
   > web comic and the standard (default) format being used for articles.
 * This looks promising in terms of formatting but I’d like to have the traditional
   webcomic navigation buttons as well.
    Would it be wise to display newest post
   only and then have the navigation buttons display first post, one post back, 
   one post forward and newest post?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-article-plugin-and-webcomic-help/#post-3813316)
 * > Will I have to use this function on the Image in the article and then call 
   > on it.
 * It would be used in the template for that particular page. So possibly in more
   than 1 template file. Have a look at [Theme Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
   for an overview of how the theme templating system works.
 * > I’d like to have the traditional webcomic navigation buttons as well.
 * On a single post page, that should be do-able by using [next_post_link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/next_post_link)
   and [previous_post_link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/previous_post_link).
   Not sure if that’s what Frumph uses in his [ComicPress theme](http://wordpress.org/themes/comicpress)
   but it might be worth downloading that theme and looking through it for ideas.
 *  Thread Starter [mot13](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mot13/)
 * (@mot13)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-article-plugin-and-webcomic-help/#post-3813378)
 * Thank you, You’ve been an incredible help.
    I haven’t tried this out yet but 
   it looks like exactly what I am trying to do.

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