Wordpress with Comicpress wigging out on me

[Matt]

Well, that error says that your script needs escapeshellcmd and exec enabled not shell_exec. You can enable escapeshellcmd and exec but doing so opens up several security holes. Make sure your scripts are always up to date when they are running using overrides of our recommended settings.

Try going to the /comicpress-manager directory and uploading a file called php.ini that has the following line of code:

disable_functions =  allow_url_fopen,show_source,system,passthru,popen,proc_open,proc_close,proc_terminate,proc_get_status,proc_nice,readfile,escapeshellarg,ini_alter,parse_ini_file,show_source