emmanuelg

<p><strong>WordPress</strong> 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.<br />
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.</p>
<p>The <strong>EG-Series</strong> 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 <em>widgets</em> and <em>shortcodes</em> to display list of series, or the list of posts belonging to the series of the current post.</p>
<p><strong>EG-Series</strong> 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:</p>
<ul>
<li>The plugin was created in order to reduce as possible, manual operations, and reduce the number of errors,</li>
<li><strong>EG-Series</strong> is fully customizable: users can choose the label of <em>shortcodes</em>, 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>
<p>With this plugin, you can:</p>
<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>
<p><strong>EG-Series</strong> is <em>TinyMCE Integrated</em>. 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.</p>
<h4>Contributions</h4>
<p>Thanks to the following people for their help</p>
<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>
<p>EG-Series 2.x uses now a specific taxonomy to implement series. It means</p>
<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>
<p>In the path <code>.../wp-content/plugins/eg-series/themes</code>, you will find some available customization for themes <em>Twenty Ten</em>, …<br />
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>.</p>
<p>You can also customize your theme, by modifying the <code>index.php</code> or <code>archive.php</code> file. For example:</p>
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    ?></p>
<pre><code><div class="archive-meta"><?php
    echo htmlspecialchars(term_description( '', get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ));
?></div>
</code></pre>
<p>To customize your theme templates, you have some templates tags available in the file <code>eg-series-template-tags.inc.php</code></p>


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.

andergmartins

Steve Burge

PublishPress

Kevin Behrens

Olawale Adesina

Riza Maulana Ardiyanto

<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/series" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Series</a> is a publishing plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, short-story writers, teachers, comic artists, or anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic.</p>
<p>Newspapers, magazines and publishers can use PublishPress Series to create issues based on topics or time periods:</p>
<ul>
<li>Collect posts into monthly issues for a magazine.</li>
<li>Group together newspaper articles on the same topic.</li>
<li>Organize chapters into an overall story.</li>
</ul>
<p>When you’re writing a post, you can easily add a post to an existing series, or start a new series. You can also add a new post into the middle of an existing series, and the plugin will adjust the order.</p>
<h3>PublishPress Series Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Series Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of the Series Pro plugin. The Pro version of PublishPress Series supports custom post types, multiple series, extra tokens, shortcodes and more. <a href="https://publishpress.com/series" title="Series Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best WordPress newspaper and magazine plugin now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Easily assign posts to your series</h3>
<p>When you’re writing a post, you can easily add a post to an existing series, or start a new series. You can also add a new post into the middle of an existing series, and the plugin will adjust the order.</p>
<p>It’s easy to keep track of what posts have been added to a series. You can also filter the post list by series giving you a quick way to see all the posts you’ve already added to the series.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/installation-series/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to get started with PublishPress Series</a>.</p>
<h3>Display options for your Series information</h3>
<p>PublishPress Series allows you to add three different Series displays to your posts:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/the-post-list-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">Series Post List Boxes</a>: This feature allows you to show all the posts in the current series. You can choose to show the post title, featured image, author, publishing date, and much more.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/series-post-details/" rel="nofollow ugc">Series Post Details</a>: This display allows you to show where a post stands inside a series. The typical display will appear this way: “This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series How to Use WordPress”.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/series-post-navigation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Series Post Navigation</a>: This feature enables users to navigate the previous or next post in a series. There will be a Previous arrow and a Next arrow.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Order, schedule, publish and unpublish posts in your series</h3>
<p>The Publish Series feature is available in the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Series. This feature allows you to quickly manage all posts linked to a Series. You can use this screen to re-order, schedule publish, and unpublish all the posts in a Series.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/usage-publisher/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about Publish Series screen</a>.</p>
<h3>Blocks and widgets to show your Series information</h3>
<p>You can easily create beautiful layouts with PublishPress Series. This is possible thanks to an integration with the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Using the Content Display block, you choose your series from the “Show content with these Series” box. You will then have access to dozens of layout options.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/blocks-series/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about advanced layouts</a>.</p>
<p>PublishPress Series plugin provides two widgets you can use to display your series: Series Table of Contents, and Latest Series. Both widgets are packed with features and can be dropped into your theme, or into the Gutenberg editor.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/series-widgets/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about Series widgets</a>.</p>
<h3>PublishPress Series Pro: Custom post type support</h3>
<p>Custom Post Type support is available in the Pro version of PublishPress Series. With this feature, not only can you use PublishPress Series with WordPress posts, plus you can also create series with pages, or any other WordPress Custom Post Type. Your series can even have parts across different post types. That means you could have “Part 1” that is a post, “Part 2” that is a page, and “Part 3” that is another post type.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/custom-post-types/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about custom post types</a>.</p>
<h3>PublishPress Series Pro: Shortcodes</h3>
<p>PublishPress Series Shortcodes is a feature in the Pro version of PublishPress Series. This provides a set of WordPress shortcodes that allow you insert series information into posts. There are five shortcodes available:</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/overview-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about Series shortcodes</a>.</p>
<h3>PublishPress Series Pro: Add Posts to Multiple Series</h3>
<p>The Pro version of PublishPress Series allows you to add posts to more than one series. The core plugin only allows posts to be added to one series. The most obvious change you will see after enabling this feature is inside the post editing screen. The “Series” metabox will allow you to choose more than one series.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/overview-multiples/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to see more about the Multiple Series feature</a>.</p>
<h4>Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins</h4>
<p>The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. <a href="https://publishpress.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to join PublishPress</a>.</p>
<p>Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these Pro plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/authors" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Authors Pro</a> allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/blocks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Blocks Pro</a> has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Capabilities Pro</a> is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists Pro</a> enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/future" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Future Pro</a> is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/permissions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Permissions Pro</a> is the plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/publishpress" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Planner Pro</a> is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/revisions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Revisions Pro</a> allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/series" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Series Pro</a> enables you to group content together into a series.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/shortlinks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Shortlinks Pro</a> allows you to create custom URLs for your posts and external links. </li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/statuses" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Statuses Pro</a> enables you to create additional publishing steps for your posts.</li>
</ul>
<p>Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more… then you should try PublishPress.</p>
<h4>Bug Reports</h4>
<p>Bug reports for PublishPress Series are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-series" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.</p>


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