xen111

So tag archives don’t use tag.php anymore?

Is this new? I mean in WordPress. As far as I can see there is still the index.php < archive.php < tag.php < tag-id.php < tag-slug.php hierarchy.

But thanks for your response, I shall check out the new version (at some point) ;-).

Xen.

Hi Nerrad. Thank you for your response. I wrote that before I checked out the various Series plugins. I have already installed Organize Series on another blog of mine to try it out.

I have been out of it for a while, but I think I might need to modify the plugin for a bit. I’m first gonna see what I can do with templates and template tags, then study the source of the templates tags, and then study the source of the rest of the plugin. It shouldn’t be that much.

I read that the plugin should work alright with WPML, so I should be able to edit the language of the series that I add. Hopefully? And the series permalink structure should work with WPML’s tax_permalink_filter(), because the series fall under the taxonomy structure.

What I am probably going to modify is to introduce a custom post type called “series-header” that will connect each series to a header-post that allows a real introduction to be rendered on each /series/name/ page, including an auto-generated Table of Contents (series.php). What it will also allow me to do is to allow for comments for the entire series instead of only for individual member posts. My series.php will first include the header, then the TOC, then list all the posts (full inclusion), and there will be a link (in a box of its own or a tab) at the top that would open the comments page by way of a $_GET parameter. The comments page would display the header including comments, probably just using series.php. In effect the series page would have two views depending on the parameter.

The header posts will thus have a slug and language assigned to it based on the slug and language of the series. Its comments are the comments of the series.

I choose full inclusion because on this blog all my posts follow a concise, short format. The result will be a page for each series that allows the reader to read the entire series in one successive read, possibly with paging.

But I’m not busy with it yet, my blog is in deep slumber now.

I have the same issue; however: the option panel does save the new settings, so there is no real problem. I just tested the plugin; it works fine.

You see the issue with putting the posts in chronological order instead of reverse chrono-order is that a blog visitor expects everything to be in reverse-chrono order. If some category suddenly does the reverse, that is confusing.