Widgets

stripShow includes a handful of widgets that can be incorporated into any widget-aware WordPress theme you may wish to use.

stripShow even creates an additional sidebar area, called Comic Sidebar, that you can use if you want to keep your comic widgets separate from your WordPress widgets. Any theme that has been set up to can use this sidebar.

The widgets have been renamed and rewritten in stripShow 2.5, to take advantage of new features in WordPress 2.8. Now, all widgets are "multi-widgets," meaning they can be used more than once on a page.

The widgets included with stripShow 2.5 are:
 * stripShow Navbar:This widget provides a set of navigation links for the first, previous, next, and last comics, as well as a random comic. You can configure this widget to rename or omit any of those five.
 * stripShow Calendar:This widget is identical to WordPress's own calendar, except that it only shows comics, not blog posts.
 * stripShow Storylines:This widget includes a storyline dropdown, showing all storylines in your archive, and an informational section showing which storyline is current and where the reader is in that storyline.
 * stripShow Comic Rant:A rant is simply the text associated with a comic -- the content of your comic post. Examples might be what you were thinking when you drew the comic, or some extra information to give it context.


 * stripShow Bookmark:It's always a good idea, if you've got a lot of comics in your archive, to give readers the option of bookmarking their place and returning to it later. Since people's browser bookmarks are cluttered enough as it is, stripShow provides a handy means of setting a bookmark at the current comic. The stripShow Bookmark widget has three buttons -- one to bookmark the current comic, one to go to a set bookmark, and one to clear the bookmark. These can be styled like any other element.


 * stripShow Comic:Inserts a copy of the current comic into your sidebar.
 * stripShow Character Cloud:Just like a post tag cloud, for characters. Displays all the characters that appear in your comics, in "cloud" form -- with more prominent characters appearing in a larger font.