• » Introduction to Organize Series Usage Tips
• Series Options Page: Tokens
• Series Options Page: Automation Settings
• Series Options Page: Series Post List Template
• Series Options Page: Series Navigation Template
• Series Options Page: Series Meta Template
• Series Options Page: Series Table of Contents Template
• Series Options Page: Wrap up
• Showing off your series
• Showing off Your Series: Series List

When I first started off in the WordPress blogging world there are a few things I discovered fairly quickly:

1. WordPress is a kick-butt platform for publishing on the web. It’s not only a great tool for typical blogging usage but also makes a great system for designing CMS based websites.
2. There’s an awesome community behind WordPress. Having such a big and helpful community certainly makes learning and using WordPress all the more easier.
3. There’s tons of plugins that extend the capabilities of what WordPress can do.
4. I like tweaking and playing with the codebase of WordPress.
5. There’s nothing built into the core for handling series of articles…

That last point was something that I encountered more and more as developed other websites (in particular my sermons website at UnashamedSermons.com). Out of that need and not finding a plugin to meet that need I went on to write what is now known as the Organize Series WordPress Plugin. Of course, shortly after the first release I was pointed to the “InSeries Plugin” currently being maintained by Travis Snoozy. He’s doing good work with In-Series but bleh, I decided a little competition won’t hurt (and I like my approach to series a bit better ).

Organize Series has gone through quite a transformation in the past year and I spent a great deal of time taking it to new heights for version 2.0. The earlier versions of Organize Series integrated with the category system of WordPress but Organize Series 2.0 integrates with the taxonomy system introduced in WordPress 2.3 and thus creates an entirely new taxomony called…you guessed it…’series’! Although, this limits Organize Series 2.0 to only working with WordPress versions 2.3 and up, I think if anyone is running an earlier version of WordPress they are really missing out and maybe just maybe my little plugin might help them make the switch

Of course, with all the changes and new features I’ve added to Organize Series, I’ve decided to try and do some more in-depth documentation to help users get the most out of this plugin. What better way to do that than to use Organize Series to organize a series on using Organize Series (how do you like that sentence!).

I’m going to try and add at least one post a day for the next few weeks to this series until I’ve exhausted all I can think of that might help people get the most of of Organize Series. If you have things you want more detail on then make sure you leave a comment and I’ll update the post if necessary (or use it as the basis for another post in the series).

Oh, and by the way - at some point in this series I’m going to be highlighting different blogs/websites that are using this plugin (and especially focusing on unique usages of orgSeries). If you want a chance at getting mentioned then head on over to here and leave a linky to an example of how you use orgSeries.

Well, so ends the first post in the Organize Series Usage Tips series - but here’s a couple links to other resources that should be handy…

Organize Series WordPress Plugin Page
Organize Series Support Forums
Organize Series Usage Series Feed
Organize Series Category
Organize Series Category Feed

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