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WordPress gives us a lot of ways of classification: categories, tags, date … All of these methods are efficient, and cover most of our needs. But they are applied to all posts, and don’t allow differenciating or highlighting some specific posts. 
Sometime, it may be helpful to group items into folders or into series, in order to promote these posts, or simply because they belong to a logical sequence, such as tutorials with several stages.
The EG-Series plugin gives a set of easy and ergonomic functions to manage series of posts. This plugin allows to include posts into series, to create, delete or rename series. It also includes widgets and shortcodes to display list of series, or the list of posts belonging to the series of the current post.
EG-Series use only standard tools of WordPress, and doesn’t create additional tables or objects in WordPress. The version 2 of the plugin uses the taxonomies. The main advantages are:
<ul>
<li>The plugin was created in order to reduce as possible, manual operations, and reduce the number of errors,</li>
<li>EG-Series is fully customizable: users can choose the label of shortcodes, and slug used for series’ link,</li>
<li>It can be installed and configured very quickly. It also allows to modify a lot of posts without editing them.</li>
</ul>
With this plugin, you can:
<ul>
<li>Add / Delete a post from a serie,</li>
<li>Create / Rename / Delete series,</li>
<li>Display the list of series in a post, or display this list in sidebar, with widgets for exemple,</li>
<li>Display list of posts, using an another shortcode, or an another widget,</li>
<li>Automatically insert the list of posts of a specific serie, without using shortcode.</li>
</ul>
EG-Series is TinyMCE Integrated. That means you don’t need to learn the shortcode syntax. The plugin adds a button in the tinymce toolbar. You just have to click on this button, choose parameters/options, and click insert. That’s all, the shortcode will be insert into your post with the right parameters.
<h4>Contributions</h4>
Thanks to the following people for their help
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cédric</a></li>
<li><a href="http://monkeyman.be/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jan Fabry</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Customize your theme</h3>
EG-Series 2.x uses now a specific taxonomy to implement series. It means
<ul>
<li>The link to series can be: http://host/path/[slug]/[Name of the serie]</li>
<li>You can build / customize a specific page in your theme to display the content of a serie.</li>
</ul>
In the path <code>.../wp-content/plugins/eg-series/themes</code>, you will find some available customization for themes Twenty Ten, … 
To customize these themes, just copy the file <code>taxonomy-series.php</code> into the path of your theme <code>.../wp-content/themes/[Name of the theme]</code>.
You can also customize your theme, by modifying the <code>index.php</code> or <code>archive.php</code> file. For example:
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<pre><code><div class="archive-meta"><?php
 echo htmlspecialchars(term_description( '', get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ));
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</code></pre>
To customize your theme templates, you have some templates tags available in the file <code>eg-series-template-tags.inc.php</code>

EG-Series

I've been using this very capable plug-in - almost a suite of plug-ins - for organizing and displaying posts in series for several years. I should have given it a positive review long ago.
The only reason I would hesitate to recommend it to others is that it has not been updated in two years. It also has some very minor functionality and language glitches and less than comprehensive documentation.
In addition, not being updated/supported means that some problems have crept in. After the WP Core upgrade to 4.2, the widgets stopped appearing: It turned out, however, that a fix was very simple (see Support Thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/has-the-latest-version-211-lost-its-widget?replies=5#post-8181189). 
So, you should be prepared to do some figuring out for yourself, although, once you do figure it out, you'll find that it works very well, it comes with rich options for alternative display and linking modes, and that the pieces are knit together quite well.



4 Stars not 5 only because no longer supported

EG-Series helps you to organize your posts in a new way, allowing the creation of groups (series) of posts. Can be useful to promote some posts.

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<ul>
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<li>Comments – Display or hide comments on the single sermon page.</li>
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</ul>
<h3>Pro Version Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Elegant List View – The new list view layout is perfect for churches who want to display sermons in a compact manner or for churches who don’t utilize a sermon image. <a href="https://advancedsermons.com/layouts/" rel="nofollow ugc">View Example</a>.</li>
<li>Facebook Videos – Add Facebook and Facebook Live videos to your sermons. Great for churches who want to broadcast live sermons due to COVID-19 regulations.</li>
<li>Bible Passages – You can add any number of passages to a sermon, with a variety of translations, and the option to automatically link to biblegateway.com.</li>
<li>Bible Version and Translation – Customize the bible passage version and translation.</li>
<li>Sermon Bulletins – Attach sermon bulletins to your sermons so users can download and use them at a later time or follow along.</li>
<li>Custom Archive Slug – Change the slug of the sermon archive page. For example, by default, all sermons would be located under /sermons/, and a single sermon with slug “god” would be under /sermons/god/.</li>
<li>Customize Labels – Use the term Messages instead of Sermons? No problem! Customize the verbiage for Sermons, Speakers, and Topics.</li>
<li>Series & Speaker Details – Display series and speaker image, title, description, and links above sermons on the archive page.</li>
<li>Search Sermons – Advanced Sermons integrates fully with WordPress’s native search features making it easy for visitors to find sermons.</li>
<li>Customize Filter Bar – You have full control over the archive filter bar and can remove the elements you are not using to only show what you want.</li>
<li>Social Sharing – Your visitors are only one click away from sharing their favorite sermons. Getting the word out has never been easier.</li>
<li>Related Sermons – Display related sermons in a series on the bottom of the sermon single page.</li>
<li>Navigation – Add a navigation section to the single sermon template with “previous” and “next” buttons so users can navigate through sermons.</li>
<li>Sermon Sidebars – Display a beautiful sidebar on the sermon single page. Customize with any WordPress widget.</li>
<li>Shortcodes & Widgets – A full-featured shortcode system allowing you to show exactly what you need and where.</li>
<li>Language Settings – Language settings allows you to customize Advanced Sermons default text to your preference. Example: Scripture instead of Bible Passage.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Thank You</h3>
Thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy Advanced Sermons. If you have any suggested features we would love to hear them! You can contact us <a href="https://wpcodeus.com/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.

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