Easy Post Series

Description

This plugin helps you create a series of posts. It creates a new taxonomy named ‘series’ (can be modified via filter, see FAQ). There is no setting needed for this plugin. Once it is installed, assign posts you want to group as a series via post editor.

The plugin also creates a posts navigation on posts that belong to a certain series. See screenshots for the examples.

Screenshots

Installation

How to install this plugin:

1. Download and extract the plugin.
2. Upload ‘easy-post-series’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
3. Activate the plugin through the plugin dashboard.

or

1. Go to your plugin admin page on WP admin dashboard.
2. Click “Add New” and search the name of the plugin.
3. Install and activate the plugin.

FAQ

How do I change the style of post navigation?

You can change the style by adding new CSS rules to your theme’s style.css.

What are available filter hooks?

• wpeps_languages_directory
• wpeps_taxonomy_labels
• wpeps_taxonomy_args
• wpeps_taxonomy
• wpeps_html_before_nav_paragraph
• wpeps_html_after_nav_paragraph
• wpeps_html_after_nav_list
• wpeps_nav_post_order
• wpeps_nav_post_orderby
• wpeps_archive_page_post_order
• wpeps_archive_page_post_orderby

How to change series taxonomy to something other than ‘series’?

Add the following code to your active theme’s functions.php

add_filter( 'wpeps_taxonomy', 'prfx_series_taxonomy');
function prfx_series_taxonomy( $taxonomy ) {
    return $taxonomy = 'taxonomy-name';
}

How to change series archive page post order?

Add the following code to your active theme’s functions.php

add_filter( 'wpeps_archive_page_post_order', 'prfx_archive_page_post_order');
function prfx_archive_page_post_order( $order ) {
    return $order = 'ASC';
}

add_filter( 'wpeps_archive_page_post_orderby', 'prfx_archive_page_post_orderby');
function prfx_archive_page_post_orderby( $orderby ) {
    return $orderby = 'date';
}

Reviews

No ability to add post to Series

wp-MeMeMe March 18, 2022

I’m guessing this hasnt been updated to work with Gutenberg, but I cant find any way to add posts to a series. I would love to use this plugin – I really like how it appears in published posts, but the problem makes it unusuable.

The best post series plugin. Period.

Toni December 12, 2017 2 replies

Why is this the BEST post series plugin? It is extremely well developed, takes 0 effort to use, primo results, minimal space usage on both sides. 1). Nothing to set up, copy/paste, or do. 2). Series interface is minimal on the post edit page. Just a box that works exactly like Tags – you do not choose from a list of series. If you have a lot of series this is critical – a deal maker or breaker. I have tons of series – sets of activities based on one reading passage for example. It is important to have them grouped together but it was difficult, I was about to just do it manually, until this plugin. 3). Great looking, compact but complete results: with all posts in series linked in a collapsing box. So you don’t use up post space with series info = but it is all available. Brilliant! This plugin is a life saver for me. Seriously. Please donate to keep this (or any 5 star) plugin you use maintained! Thank you for your work. It is a pleasure to use this plugin. It is very important to one of my sites.

Fantastic!

jasokol1 September 6, 2017 1 reply

I don’t usually leave reviews, but after my experience with other Series plugins, I felt that I should share. This one just worked. It provides a clean, collapsible list of my post Series at the start of the post. There’s a link that opens up a blog page containing all the posts in the Series. The only thing I wish it had was the ability to add a next in series/previous in series navigation link at the bottom of the post. Otherwise, it’s perfect.

Great little plugin

danrocha April 16, 2017 1 reply

Does what it says, and does it well. Simple and elegant.

Very good!

Stefano February 17, 2017 1 reply

Works beautifully and doesn’t have a sucking frontend design, as other similar plugins do!

Exactly what I needed

faeldray September 3, 2016

Works perfectly out of the box. When I asked the author about a particular function, it did not exist but he added it in a new version in a matter of days. Amazing support.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0

• Initial release.

1.1

• Add new filter hooks so that user can modify the plugin (See FAQ for available hooks).

1.1.1

• Fix: series post nav only showed max 5 posts.

1.1.2

• Fix: CSS styles and JS scripts
• Fix: use plugin version number in CSS and JS enqueue script
• Improve: separate navigation ouput function so it can be outputted using a function