emmanuelg

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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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.

chaozh

Simple Post Series 文章专题插件，也叫文章系列插件，集所有类似插件功能之所长！你可以创建专题（有点像自定义的分类），将文章添加到该专题（支持拖放添加、排序哦！），然后使用简码插入到文章中，或使用小工具展示。专题内的文章都可以在后台统一管理，你无需再次修改文章。支持在可视化下一键插入某个专题的文章……更多功能与用法都等你发现！！
<ul>
<li>可以在文章编辑页面可视化添加简码以展示某个专题下的文章列表，除文章与页面两种内建类型外，最新2.2版开始支持自定义类型了哦；</li>
<li>可以设置自动在文章页或主页上显示某个专题下的文章列表，除去你每篇文章修改的麻烦，甚至可以设置展示摘要或缩略图；</li>
<li>可以在管理员文章管理页面上按照某个专题进行筛选，文章管理比原来更加方便；</li>
<li>从2.0版开始支持文章可视化拖拽添加到专题的功能，甚至可以改变专题下文章的显示排序哦。</li>
</ul>
可以在这个github项目中找到最新更新的beta版代码！欢迎fork/star该项目，也欢迎提出各种改进意见或使用中发现的问题。
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simple-post-series allows you to insert series short code for displaying a bunch of posts in the same serie. 
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.
With this plugin, you can:
<ul>
<li>Add / Delete a post from a serie with simple drag & drop move,</li>
<li>Display the list of series in a post, or display this list in sidebar, with widgets for exemple,</li>
<li>Filter posts by a special serie in your admin post managent page,</li>
<li>Automatically insert the list of posts of a specific serie, without using shortcode.</li>
<li>TinyMCE Integrated. Don’t need to learn the shortcode syntax. The plugin add 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.</li>
</ul>
You can find latest beta source code in <a href="https://github.com/chaozh/Post-Series" rel="nofollow ugc">github project</a>.
This plugin is enlighted by Tuts+ and their Sessions. You can find a very helpful <a href="http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/plugins/adding-post-series-functionality-to-wordpress-with-taxonomies/" rel="nofollow ugc">cource in NetTuts+</a> to figure out how this plugin works in WordPress.
<h3>Usage</h3>
simple post series adds two administration pages, a widget and shortcode.
<h4>Customize your theme</h4>
simple-post-series uses now a specific taxonomy to implement series. It means
<ul>
<li>The link to series can be: http://host/path/series/[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>
You can customize your theme by creating page like ‘taxonomy-series.php’ which overrides default archive page to display the content of a serie. 
A sample archive page template is located in ‘[simple-post-series]/template/taxonomy-series.php’ and you can freely modified it and place in your own theme.
<h4>Administration pages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Series gives ability to change or rename series,</li>
<li>Settings/Post Series contains all options of the plugin. In this page, you can activate the auto display feature.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcodes</h4>
<ul>
<li>To display the list of series: [series options], with the following options:
<ul>
<li>id of the series. Default ”,</li>
<li>slug of the series. Default ”,</li>
<li>title of the list. Default ”,</li>
<li>limit: number of series to display in the list. Default: -1 to display all series,</li>
<li>show_future: displays unpublish posts in the series. Default: on,</li>
<li>class_prefix: of the list section. Default ‘post-series’.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

Simple Post Series

Simple Post Series实现按照自定义系列专题的形式管理文章并展示的功能，实现可视化拖拽、添加、小工具等功能！

EG-Series vs Simple Post Series