How to Change Your Toocheke Settings: A Step-by-Step Guide

Ready to make Toocheke truly yours? The options page is packed with all sorts of settings you can tweak to control how things work and look. Whether you want to jazz up your layout or just fine-tune a few things, we’ve got you! In this super simple guide, we’ll show you how to customize Toocheke exactly the way you want it.

  1. Login to your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Go to the Toocheke → Options menu
  3. You’ll see a list of tabs, each offering different settings you can customize.

In the sections below, we’ll walk you through the available options and how they impact different aspects of your WordPress site. Want to jump to a specific section? Just click the link to skip ahead in the article!

Display

Your webcomic will likely be viewed on a variety of devices, especially phones and tablets. Toocheke lets you provide separate desktop and mobile versions of your comic post. By default, only one version is shown on all devices. To enable both versions, just check the option in the Comic Display screen and click Save Changes button.

Check out this step-by-step guide on creating a ‘responsive’ comic post by adding both desktop and mobile versions of your comic.

Ordering

The Comics Ordering option gives you the ability to determine the ordering of various elements within Toocheke:

  • How would you like to order your comics? – Defines how your comics are sorted in any list.
  • How would you like to order your comics in the slider navigation on the comic page? – Sets the order of items in the carousel navigation below each comic in the Webtoon layout.
  • On clicking a chapter, which comic would you like to navigate to first? – Determines whether the first or last comic in a chapter is displayed when you click a chapter thumbnail.
  • On clicking a collection, which comic would you like to navigate to first? – Determines whether the first or last comic in a collection is shown when you click a collection thumbnail.
  • Series Ordering – Controls which comic is displayed when you click a series thumbnail on the homepage (for Webtoon layout).

Archive

When you install Toocheke, an archive page for your comics is automatically created, accessible at yourdomainname.com/comic. By default, it displays the Thumbnail List layout. You can instead use any one of the layout options:

  • Thumbnail List
  • Plain Text List
  • Calendar
  • Gallery/Grid
  • Segmented By Chapters – Plain Text List
  • Segmented By Chapters – Gallery/Grid
  • Segmented By Series – Plain Text List
  • Segmented By Series – Gallery/Grid
  • Segmented By Year – Plain Text List
  • Segmented By Year – Gallery/Grid

Within the Comic Navigation settings, you can customize the available navigation options, adjust how they function, and replace the default navigation buttons with your own custom images.

Social Sharing

On this screen, you can choose which social sharing buttons to display on your comic post.

If you’d like to give your readers the option to support you through an external donation or subscription platform, you can add the links here. This screen showcases a list of popular platforms that can be displayed on your comic post.

Analytics

Toocheke allows you to collect and display key analytics for each of your comics, including likes, comments, and views. You can enable these analytics to be shown on this screen.

Top 10

If you have created a page of your ten most viewed comics, you can control the layout on this screen. To add a Top 10 page for your website, simply:

  • Go to the Pages → Add New Page screen.
  • Enter the title of the page in the Add title field.
  • In the right sidebar of the screen (under the Page tab), change the Template from Default template to Top Ten Comics Page.
  • Click the Publish button.

Series

The Series screen offers several options to control key aspects of them Toocheke’s series feature:

  • Do you want to publish more than one comic series? – This option determines whether you want to override the layout on the homepage by displaying a grid of thumbnails for all your series which link to the landing page of the series. Regular blog posts will be displayed below the grid. You can view demo of what it would like when this option is enabled here.
  • Do you want to display a list of ALL comics (for multiple series) on the home page? – Enable this option to show a list of all comics (across multiple series) on the homepage.
  • Do you want to display list of regular blog posts on the series landing page (applies to webtoon layouts)? – For Webtoon layouts, enable this option if you’d like to display regular blog posts on the series landing pages.
  • Select the series you would like displayed on the home page – If you choose not to override the homepage layout and instead use a traditional layout, you can choose from which series you will display the comic. 

Discussion

WordPress allows readers to comment on your comic posts, but by default, the commenting feature is not enabled on the homepage. If you’re using a traditional layout that displays a comic on the homepage, the comment form won’t appear. To ensure the comment form shows up on the homepage, simply enable the option on the Comic Discussion screen.

Blog

On this screen, you have a couple of options that allow you to control how blog posts are displayed on the home page and on the comic page.

  • Do you want to hide blog posts on your comics homepage/landing page? – This overrides whichever layout you have on the homepage by hiding the list of regular blog posts.
  • Do you want to display the blog post on webtoon layout? – If you’re using a Webtoon layout, the comic’s blog post won’t appear on the comic’s page. To override this and display the blog post, simply enable this option.

Age

Is your webcomic NSFW? If so, you’ll want to ensure that readers verify they’re over 18. You can enable this age verification process on this screen.

Language

One of the cool features of Toocheke is the ability to publish your comic in two languages. To display the language switcher button for readers, simply enable the option on this page.

Images

If you’d like to give your readers the option to view a larger version of the comic image by clicking on it, simply enable this option.

RSS

When you first set up Toocheke on your WordPress site, two RSS feeds are available:

  • Regular blog posts feed which can be accessed from yourdomain.com/feed/
  • Comic posts feed which can be accessed from yourdomain.com/comic/feed/

If you’d like to combine both feeds into the main feed (yourdomain.com/feed/), simply enable the option on this screen.

And that’s it! You’re now all set to take full control of Toocheke and make your WordPress site uniquely yours. With all these customization options at your fingertips, you’ll be creating a personalized website that offers your readers exciting new ways to experience your webcomic. So go ahead, experiment, and have fun tweaking things to your heart’s content.

Happy Tooning!

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