This is the initial release of Bayeux, a theme for displaying horizontally-scrolling comics, mostly as entire chapters rather than single pages.

You will want to have the Comic Easel plugin installed. You do not need its corresponding theme, only the plugin.

I also suggest using the Custom Taxonomies Menu widget - https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-taxonomies-menu-widget/ - to get a list of links to different chapters. Comic Easel’s “Comic Chapters” widget will not work properly for you.

I also HIGHLY recommend using some kind of content delivery network for your images, unless you like having half of them not load. I use the Wordpress CDN, thanks to the ‘Photon’ module of the Jetpack plugin. This should already be installed when you set up Wprdpress.

The ‘archive banner’ sidebars are for ads; they will be cycled through beneath the pages in a chapter. I use Project Wonderful, which has a special syntax for showing the same ad unit multiple times in a page. Please consult your ad network’s policies regarding this sort of thing.

If you’d like to see the theme in action, have a look at my comic ‘Decrypting Rita’ - http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/

Sending a few bucks to egypt@urnash.com would be nice if you use this, but this is built on top of Toolbox, a GPL theme, so do whatever the hell you like with it.

Ultimately I’ll have everything specific to my comic removed from this theme, but right now it’s still got a lot of that embedded in the code. You’ll want to replace images/website-splash.png, and maybe dink around in style.less to change colors. (You’ll need a LESS compiler; I use CodeKit - http://incident57.com/codekit/index.html. If you don’t want to pay money try Less.app from the same guy, if you’re not on a Mac then I got no clue.)

Future plans:
* better customization (colors, location of title page quotes/synopsis, arbitrary css field, etc.)
* fold a chapter list widget into the theme?
* work on top of other comic plugins? This would be easier if I had a CE->other plugin importer.
* alternate css for vertically-oriented comics (maybe even on a chapter-by-chapter basis?)
* set things up for internationalization

If you implement any of these, send me a patch and I will totally fold it into the next release rather than do it myself.

Enjoy!

-Margaret Trauth
egypt@urnash.com