Installing stripShow

New Installation
Before installing stripShow, you will need a working WordPress installation. These instructions will assume a plain vanilla installation, without a lot of customizations.

Automatic Installation
The easiest way to install stripShow is to use WordPress's automatic installation feature.
 * 1) From your WordPress administration page, select Plugins->Add New.
 * 2) In the Search field, type "stripshow".
 * 3) Press Search Plugins.
 * 4) Hopefully, stripShow will be among the results when you search for it by name. Click Install to the far right.
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 * 1) An overlay should appear, giving information about the plugin, with a red Install Now button.
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 * Press the Install Now button.
 * 1) WordPress will now attempt to install the plugin. It will show some status information telling you what it's doing.
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 * Click the Activate Plugin link.
 * 1) stripShow is now activated! You can move on to configuring it.

Manual installation

 * 1) First, you'll need a working WordPress installation. Installing and configuring WordPress is beyond the scope of this document, but help can be found at WordPress's website.
 * 2) If you are upgrading from a previous version of stripShow, make sure you disable the plugin in WordPress's Plugins page before proceeding.
 * 3) Upload the folder called stripshow to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
 * 4) Activate the plugin through the Plugins page in WordPress.
 * 5) Choose a theme. stripShow 2.0 ships with a new framework theme, stripShow Sandbox. You can read more about its features in Theming stripShow.
 * Also included is stripShow Classic, which is nearly identical to the original stripShow example theme included with version 1 of stripShow.
 * I recommend copying at least the folder called stripshow_sandbox into your themes/ folder. This will allow you to create a child theme based on this framework. See Chapter 7, Theming stripShow.
 * 1) Create a folder to hold your comics. If such a folder already exists, take note of its location relative to your WordPress root, as you will need to enter that location on the stripShow Options page. In either case, this folder will need to be writeable by your webserver, in order to use stripShow's upload feature.
 * 2) Configure stripShow using the stripShow Configuration page.