Webcomic

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7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 9 months ago; the previous band took 14 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ madabril

   5.8y ago

   Great plugin bogged down by limited support.

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2. ★★★★★ LukeA

   8.6y ago

   I tried several of the other plug ins and this one works great for me. It was a little bit of a learning curve, but what isn’t? I like the fact that I can load and schedule all my comics for months out!

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3. ★★★★★ Derek Padula

   8.7y ago

   This is the only comic plugin I found that actually worked. All of the others were either inadequate or included way too much. This plugin was simple and modifiable. Of course, I had a lot of trouble setting this plugin up when it was in the 4.0 version, and each time I updated it, it seemed to break by replacing the loop file that had custom code in it. But I got used to it. When I upgraded to the 5.0 version it caused a lot of breaking issues across the site. Luckily, Mike offered free tech support. I created an admin account for him through WordPress, he went in, and resolved the issues the same day, at no charge! It’s rare to find customer support like that. Especially without paying for it. This alone makes it a plugin worth using.

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4. ★★★★★ emilysparkle

   10.0y ago

   won’t install on fresh wordpress instance. This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by emilysparkle.

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5. ★★★★★ paulchrisjones

   10.1y ago

   I thought this plugin would make it easy to integrate comics into my site. But the trouble is, I can’t get the plugin to work. The hundreds of pages of documentation don’t help and the support forums are all but dead. The main problem is that this plugin is too complicated. This topic was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by paulchrisjones.

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6. ★★★★★ flipdahacker

   10.6y ago

   Can anyone direct me to a specific area of forums etc that detail how to set up? 😥😢 i’m using “inkblot ” as the theme and “webcomic ” as the plugin. I havent uploaded any content yet because i don’t understand how to set up the “storylines, characters transcripts, settings etc. I’ve jumped from every webcomic based theme over the last month looking for something intuitively simple that i can get up in no time and i’m beyond frustrated. To add to the chaos…i know little to no css, php etc 😒 any info i’d greatly appreciate.

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7. ★★★★★ Greenlaw

   10.6y ago

   Our old comics website had become dated and it was getting difficult to manage all the content we had on it, so I started looking into WordPress and the different comics themes and plugins that were available. It took a lot of trial and error but what I finally settled on was the Inkblot theme with the Webcomic plugin. This combo works well right out of the box and customizing it is pretty easy (tip: look to the widgets for custom nav buttons.) Once you wrap your head around the workflow, Webcomic pretty much manages scheduling and publishing your comics for you, so you can focus on possibly more important things like actually creating comics. It even has a system for monetizing/selling your comics but I haven’t really looked into that part of it yet. If I had to pick on one thing, it’s probably the current online documentation. The plugin’s website has good information for getting started but the Webcomic plugin has apparently evolved quite a bit since it came out and I kept running into outdated or conflicting information about it on the web. Fortunately, the developer Michael Sisk has been super helpful in explaining the intended workflow and he even showed me how to implement certain tricks I needed for one of our comics (Streams). The Webcomic user community has been pretty helpful too. Overall, the Webcomic plugin and Inkblot theme does exactly what I needed it to do for our comics Brudders and Streams, and I’m looking forward to any future Webcomic updates from Mike. If anybody is interested, I’m thinking about creating a tutorial explaining how we set up and use Webcomic, and post it on our website littlegreendog.com. If you want to see what we have now, just click on the Comics menus when you get there. Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ deviantbono

   11.4y ago

   Although there are some tricks to installing any plug-in, Webcomic has just the right balance of ease-of-use and full-customizability that makes it the perfect solution for hosting one (or more) webcomics.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.3

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-30 700+ → 600+ down after 411 days in tier
2. 2024-12-15 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2024-12-14 700+ → 800+ up after 6 days in tier
4. 2024-12-08 800+ → 700+ down after 393 days in tier
5. 2023-11-11 900+ → 800+ down after 144 days in tier
6. 2023-06-20 1K+ → 900+ down after 20 days in tier
7. 2023-05-31 900+ → 1K+ up after 60 days in tier
8. 2023-04-01 1K+ → 900+ down after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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Webcomic: 600+ active installs, 4.0★ (13 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/webcomic