Jon Weatherhead

<p>Group related posts in a series. Automatically insert a list of all posts in the series as part of the content.</p>
<p>Manually embed a series listing with the provided shortcode and widget. Override the series template with a custom template.</p>
<p>A great <a href="https://planetjon.ca/4823/making-a-blog-series-with-also-in-this-series" title="How to use Also In This Series" rel="nofollow ugc">rundown of the plugin</a> is available on the Planetjon blog.</p>
<h3>How To Use</h3>
<p>Create new Series terms from the Series manager under Posts. Add posts to series either through the quick edit screen or through the full edit screen.</p>
<p>Also In This Series can be configured to automatically insert a series listing in posts belonging to a series.</p>
<p>To do so, navigate to Also In This Series settings under the settings option.</p>
<h3>Settings</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title heading level</strong> sets the HTML tag that will wrap the series title in series inserted automatically, with shortcodes, and with widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Title template</strong> picks from a list of title presets for displaying the title, including a presetfor no title.</li>
<li><strong>Automatically display series listing on post</strong> allows for automatic listing insertion in posts that belong to a series.</li>
<li><strong>Order of series display</strong> controls the order of posts (newest first or oldest first) in series listings.</li>
<li><strong>Window series listing display</strong> creates a window around the current post in a series listing. This is useful for large series where it is cumbersome to show the entire listing at once.</li>
<li><strong>Do not display series listing</strong> prevents the series listing from being shown. When checked, a link to the series is always shown.</li>
<li><strong>Always show series link</strong> forces a link to the series archive regardless of windowing. When unchecked, a link to the seriess will not be shown when the entire series listing is visible.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
<p>To manually insert the series listing of a post within a series as part of the content, use the shortcode [alsointhisseries].</p>
<p>This will have no effect if the post isn’t in a series.</p>
<p>To manually insert a specific series, use the series-slug attribute with the shortcode like [alsointhisseries series-slug=”your-series-slug”].</p>
<p>The shortcode attributes are</p>
<ul>
<li>series-slug=”slug”</li>
<li>use-frame=”yes|no”</li>
<li>frame-width=”number”</li>
<li>sort-order=”asc|desc”</li>
<li>title-wrap=”h1|h2|h3|span”</li>
<li>title-template=”also-in|ordinal|none”</li>
<li>hide-series-listing=”yes|no”</li>
<li>always-link-series=”yes|no”</li>
</ul>
<h3>Widget</h3>
<p>A widget that exposes all of the above options is available.</p>
<h3>Custom Template</h3>
<p>If you’d like to use your own series listing template, there are two options available.</p>
<ul>
<li>Place a template file <code>also-in-this-series/serieslisting.php</code> in your theme.</li>
<li>Use the alsointhisseries_template filter to provide an absolute path to a template file.</li>
</ul>


Also In This Series

Group related posts in a post series and automatically list all of the posts in the series as part of the content.

MakerBlock

<p>Simple Post Series with SEO! uses a WordPress shortcode to associate your posts together, with a little extra SEO mojo for good measure.  All you have to do is use the shortcode in each of the posts you want in the same series and the plugin does the rest.  It automatically finds all of the posts with the same shortcode, organizes them by publication date, and presents them in a professional and easy to read format with appropriate SEO tags.  If you wish to change the formating, you can just add your own custom CSS to your theme.</p>
<p>I’ve now added a button to the TinyMCE text editor that will allow you to select a series shortcode from the list of titles you’ve already used.  (Don’t worry!  I’m working on a button for the visual editor…)</p>
<p>If you like this plugin, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-series/" rel="ugc">please give it a 5-star rating over here –></a></p>
<p>This simple series plugin doesn’t clutter up your WordPress installation with unnecessary settings.  It doesn’t create extra tables, content types, or taxonomies.  It doesn’t require a special version of WordPress or the very latest features of PHP or MySQL.  Neither are there any unnecessary options, buttons, settings to mess with.</p>
<p>And, you can always <a href="http://makerblock.com/2012/01/simple-series-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">visit my website</a> (It’s mostly about awesome open source robots, if you’re into that kinda thing).</p>
<h3>To Do List</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create an uninstall button – it would delete ALL post meta info that was associated with a key of “mbk_simple_series”</li>
<li>Create a way to rename an entire series.  This would take a fair bit of work – since the shortcode inside each post would have to be edited.  It’s not that easy, but totally doable.</li>
<li>Consider storing all simple_series lists in a single plugin option, rather than in the post meta.  This would actually help with speed/efficiency since it would cache the results.  This would also make it slightly easier to uninstall.</li>
<li>Consider reducing the number of posts listed in a series list.  It could be hidden/revealed via jQuery.</li>
</ul>


Simple Post Series with SEO!

An easy to use shortcode for automatically creating and organizing a series list for multiple posts on the same topic with appropriate SEO attributes.

Also In This Series vs Simple Post Series with SEO!