Storylines

=Storylines=

What Are Storylines?
Often, webcomics are organized in some way -- whether into chapters, volumes, etc. In stripShow, any such organizational unit is called a storyline. A storyline is simply a chronological grouping of comics.

A powerful feature of stripShow is the ability not only to keep track of which comics belong in which storylines, but also to manage nested storylines. This means that any storyline can contain storylines within it, and those storylines can contain storylines, to a theoretically indefinite level.

Managing Storylines
Storylines in stripShow are managed from your WordPress admin page. Click on Tools in the main menu, then select Storylines. This takes you to the Storylines management page. Storylines Admin Panel On this page, you can create, edit, or delete storylines. Storylines are really very simple to enter -- they have a name and a start date, and perhaps a "parent" storyline (remember, they can be nested). That's it. stripShow automatically orders stories by start date, so you don't have to enter them in any particular order.

From this same page, you can edit or delete storylines. To edit a storyline, click Edit on that storyline's row. Its information will appear above. The Add changes to Update. Simply make your changes and hit Update when finished.

Likewise, you delete a storyline by clicking Delete on that storyline's row. You will be prompted for confirmation, and then the storyline will be deleted. Deleting a storyline does not affect your comics in any way.

Using Storylines
Storylines can be used in a number of ways. The most common is to create a dropdown menu of all stories using the storyline_dropdown template tag. See Template Tags for additional storyline-related tags.