In-Series 2.0 is now available!
This version allows for negative numbers when ordering your series, so you can now easily insert items at the beginning of your series without re-numbering all the existing entries. Note that due to an unfortunate bug in WordPress 1.5.2, you will be unable to use a zero.
In-Series 2.0 also fixes a few minor problems with the all_series() template tag.
Thanks to Drew for his assistance debugging this!
On Fr. Daniel added:
On Fr. Daniel added:
The code didn't come through--it's series_table_of_contents()
On skippy added:
Fr. Daniel: thanks! I've corrected that, and updated the zip file.
On Drew Vogel added:
Skippy... I installed the 'release' version (instead of the betas we'd been working with) of this plugin but noticed that it broke the "" functionality... If you visit http://www.drewvogel.com/index.php/all-series/ you'll see what I mean. I've got more than the single series that's listed there...
That page is generated by a page template... Please let me know how this can be addressed, and thanks for a great plugin!
On Marcos added:
I simply wanted you to know, it's working great! Thank you a lot.
On Djarnis added:
Have you thought about adding a sorting parameter to some of the functions like "series_table_of_contents()".
To me it would be more intuitive if the newest post was on top, instead of at the bottom.
On Andrew Peacock added:
Love it, love it, love it. I hate creating new categories that only hold maybe half-a-dozen related posts, and this plugin has made each series of posts so much easier to link together without having a million categories.
Thank you VERY much,
Andy
On Alan added:
Nice plugin. I added a line (around line 30) after "$this_series = array();"
if (!$ids) {$ids=array_reverse($arrPost_IDs);}
Which allows you to get away with not putting in the series_order data, and just lists in raw db order (i.e. should be ID). Currently it throws an error if you don't do it, and i thought it would be nice for the lazier of us!
On Alan added:
My mistake - my change doesn't do what i said at all! it puts them in reverse order of how you add the metadata :-(
I'll knock together the ID order hack tho.
On Alan added:
get rid of the "array_reverse" in my added line (above) and put in an "order by post_id" on the end of the query in the line starting $arrPost_IDs = $wpdb->get_col(... line
On Eduo added:
Hey.
I've used in-series for a while and today I was thinking on making a multi-chaptered post with a tutorial, which some friends have asked for.
I have the option of using a paginated article or using in-series and I can't decide. After a while I realised that the only thing I wasn't sure on in-series was the fact that I can't, to my knowledge, display the full contents of the whole series as a single article if I so desired. I do like the episodic nature of in-series but the inability to have the users being able to print or generate a single page with everything on it is kind of limiting.
Have you considered giving the option of displaying the full serialized article? I had thought either modifying the page.php file or creating a new book.php file that is linked from in-series TOCs ("Click here for all chapters in a single page" or something).
If there is already something like this I may have missed or if you have plans for something like this let me know.
Something nice as well would be a box like the current categories one with a listing of existing series and a field to add new series. It would make it much easier creating a new-in-series post when the previous one was entered a year ago.
Regards
Eduo
On Daniel added:
Nice plugin very handy.However Ive got a bug with the all_series() function. Its seems to only display the first series name instead of listing all the different series. Any ideas about this?
Skippy, the Readme file for this plugin is still missing the final "s" (on "contents") in the
line.