Write articles by series with the Organize Series plugin

In addition to classifying articles with categories and tags in WordPress, for magazine or blog pages, you may need to add another classification that is classified by series and will be displayed in partial order like TechtipsNReview.com is doing. , for example you can watch any series here.

This has the advantage that you can bookmark an article to what part of the series and then display it in sequence, which is generally very beneficial for pages with tutorial content.

So what is the best plugin to do this? If you are a coder, you can use a custom taxonomy and attach it. But if you need to find a plugin, I recommend the plugin Organize Series and this is also the plugin that this blog is also using.

Functions of OrganizeSeries

• Support to display the avatar for the series.
• Manually mark the order of articles in the series.
• It is possible to change the order of articles in the series.
• By default on the archive page, posts will be displayed in the order of the series.
• There are many paid addons to choose from, see here.
• Templates can be customized.

And one more thing you should know is that this plugin is also updated very often and has a support forum, so you can rest assured to use it, many major blogs now also use this plugin.

Plugin Setup

Immediately after installation, you should go through the setup section at Settings -> Series Options its to go through the main functions of the plugin before using it officially.

In that section, you can check it out for yourself to understand more. It has two main settings:

• Series Automation Core Options – General settings for the plugin.
• Series Templates Core Options – Customize the display structure of the series related parts outside the theme. Includes correction of English text.

The remaining part Series Table of Contents URL is to set the display address of the entire series list to the front-end.

Using plugins

First you need to create a series at Posts -> Manage Series.

Then in the Post editor, you can put it into a series of your choice and set the display part for it (Serie Part), if you don’t enter the series part, it will automatically add it in order.

And then by default the articles in the series will display like this.

Of course you can hide the elements that you don’t feel the need to go, for example at TechtipsNReview.com I don’t display the list of articles with the same series at the top of the post.

Customization Series TOC

Series TOC is the page where you will let it display a list of all the series available in the website you set up in Settings -> Series Options. However, if you have access, it may show that it is not compatible with the theme you are using. For example the image below.

The reason this happens is because it comes with a template by default, but that template does not have the same structure as the website’s theme. To make it display better, go to the plugins folder organize-series and copy the file seriestoc.php into the theme folder in use.

Then you should open the file archive.php or category.php in the theme you are using, put in seriestoc.phpthen replace the loop that displays the content with the following:

<?php wp_serieslist_display(); ?>
<div class="stocpagination"> <?php series_toc_paginate(); ?> </div>

For example:

Customizing the template of the taxonomy series

When you install this plugin, it will add a custom taxonomy namedseries. That means you can create files taxonomy-series.php then copy the code from category.php and then you can modify it a bit to make it display as you like.