working on actually getting this thing working

classes/ComicPressDBInterface.inc

@@ -45,15 +45,14 @@ class ComicPressDBInterface {
 		$this->_prepare_wp_query();
 
 		if (!is_array($categories)) { $categories = array($categories); }
-
 		$sort_order = $first ? "asc" : "desc";
 		$terminal_comic_query = new WP_Query();
 		$terminal_comic_query->query(array(
 			'showposts' => 1,
 		  'order' => $sort_order,
-			'category__in' => $categories,
+			'category__in' => $categories
-			'status' => 'publish'
 		));
+
 		$post = false;
 		if ($terminal_comic_query->have_posts()) {
 			$post = reset($terminal_comic_query->posts);

classes/ComicPressTagBuilder.inc

@@ -112,7 +112,13 @@ class ComicPressTagBuilder {
 
 		switch ($method) {
 			case 'setup':
-				if (empty($this->post)) { throw new Exception('You need to have retrieved a post for setup to work'); }
+				if (empty($this->post)) {
+					if (isset($arguments[0])) {
+						throw new ComicPressException('You need to have retrieved a post for setup to work');
+					} else {
+						return false;
+					}
+				}
 				$this->_setup_postdata($this->post);
 				return $this->post;
 			case 'from':

comicpress-core.php

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ add_action('init', '__comicpress_init');
 // @codeCoverageIgnoreStart
 
 function __comicpress_init() {
+	global $core;
+
   $classes_search = array(
     '/classes/', '/classes/backends/'
   );
@@ -47,4 +49,8 @@ function __comicpress_init() {
   $comicpress_admin = new ComicPressAdmin();
   $comicpress_admin->init();
   $comicpress_admin->handle_update();
+
+  if (!is_admin()) {
+  	$core = new ComicPressTagBuilderFactory();
+  }
 }

test/ComicPressTagBuilderTest.php

@@ -523,6 +523,18 @@ class ComicPressTagBuilderTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
 		ComicPress::get_instance(true);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @expectedException ComicPressException
+	 */
+	function testSetupEmptyPostException() {
+		$core = new ComicPressTagBuilderFactory();
+		unset($core->post);
+
+		$this->assertTrue(false === $core->setup());
+
+		$core->setup(true);
+	}
+
 	function providerTestProtect() {
 		return array(
 			array(null, 'test'),