Wordpress Question

Omnutia

For the ComiRentu website I want to have a post or message pointing to the latest issue in the post column but always at the top with all posts below it so that people will see the latest issue with download links, a list of featured comics and articles, etc..
Any ideas on how to do this would be appreciated.

Norvu

There are a few options avaliable.

I've seen one podcast that used ComicPress, a wordpress theme for webcomics, but instead of using it to post comics they used it to keep their latest episode at the top of the blog and include an awesome graphic to go along with it, which would be where the comic usually goes.

Unfortunately if you want to use ComicPress you'll have to heavily edit the theme because there is only one avaliable. CSS skills are required.

Omnutia

Thanks Norvu (Ye of the smiley dog.). Damn, It's annoying when you can't Google something because you can't think of the word for it.
Another question: Can/Should I use the same Wordpress API key for more than one site?

Norvu

Yeah, using the same API key is fine.

Omnutia

Another question: what method would you recommend for updating Wordpress? I can use Fantastico for one of my sites but not the other.

Norvu

I actually do it manually, when upgrading from 2.3 to 2.5 I downloaded the entire package and followed this to upgrade to the latest version. I've never really used Fantastico, but I have had the options. I've never found updating manually to be very complicated at all, so I've had no reason to stop.

Omnutia

Thanks again Norvu, updating seems a bit scary at first but wasn't so painful.
One more question: How can I place a link to another site in the site navigation bar? I just need to link to the forums.

Norvu

Updating manually has zero risk as long as you backup your data, including the MySQL database, if you don't know how to backup a MySQL database then go into your cPanel (presumably your host has this, most do) and find "phpMyAdmin", go into that and then on the left you'll see all the databases you have, click the relevant wordpress one, often called "Wordpress", at the top and along the various tabs it has an "Export", click on that scroll to the bottom of the new page and click "Go", once it has finished loading just copy all the data to a txt document. Done.

In WordPress 2.5, once you're inside the admin panel, go to "manager" then "links", you can also go to "Link categories" if you have different types of links, such as affiliated sites or just the "Stuff I like" type of links. In 2.3 it's called the blogroll. If you want them anywhere else, such as under the main banner ala my site, then you'll probably have to edit the html in the theme templates.

To do that if you go to "Design" and then click "Theme Editor" and it's usually the Header file you need to edit (often second from the top on the list). All you need to do is throw in the html code for the links.