Right on the heels of 1.6.1, one day later, I’m releasing another version of the Organize Series WordPress Plugin.? Again, it’s a minor bug fix - ordinarily some of this stuff I’d leave until I can add more features etc.? - but since my life is pretty busy lately I’ve decided to release any fixes as I do them so that it can benefit those using this plugin.? I never know how long it will be before I can work on it again.

Anyway, enough with that dribble…you can download the files on the page here.

I just finished version 1.6.1 of the plugin.? There’s nothing big in this version - just a minor bug fix and some added files to make it compatible with the new WordPress plugins page.? I want to thank Jim for his communication with me that alerted me to a potential problem with my plugin resulting in this bug fix.

You can find out more and download the Organize Series WordPress Plugin on this page.

I’ve just pushed live the new version of my Organize Series Plugin for WordPress.? I was going to hold off doing a new release until I got some more features added I had in mind but the bug fix that is in this publish couldn’t wait.? So without further ado here’s the scoop on what this version includes:

• BUG FIX: Blank screen/errors in the options panel when plugin installed in WordPress versions below 2.1.
• NEW FEATURE: You can now set how posts will be displayed on the series ?table of contents? page (i.e. ascending or descending, ordered by date, author, title etc.) This can be selected via the new options panel on the plugin options page. (NOTE: This appears to only work with WP 2.1+ for now - I?m still investigating if it works with other versions)
• NEW TEMPLATE TAG: ?is_series()? This tag will check for if the displayed category archive page is a series category. Returns true if it is, false if it isn?t.

As always, for the download and installation/upgrade and usage instructions, check out the plugin page.

Thanks to Thomas Sutton, I became aware of a bug in the plugin that caused the post content for all posts to disappear when the auto-tag toggle for the series-meta was disabled. I’ve updated the .zip file for the download - which you can get quickly here. The only file that needs to be replaced is orgSeries.php.

Or if you are comfortable editing .php files do the following in the orgSeries.php file:

Find,
if($settings['auto_tag_seriesmeta_toggle']) {
$content = wp_seriesmeta_write($postID) . $content;
return $content;
}
which is at about line 375 (to 378)

ADD (at line 379 right before the })
return $content;

That’s it! I really apologize for that bug. It is something I should have noticed earlier. Thanks Thomas for pointing it out!

I’d already noticed a few bugs here and there after my initial release of the plugin and so I decided to give it another once over and fix them. This is a minor release so there are no new features added but there is one rather important bug fixed that caused the list of posts to not display in the series list box on a post page. I also made a change to the default .css file that affected the way a category icon displayed in the series list box when it’s width was set to wider than the box. Before the change the category icon would appear across the borders of the box. Now the box expands to accomodate the width of the category icon.

Small things but important nevertheless! Is anybody using this plugin yet? It’d be nice to know how people are finding it and what features/things they’d like added (or taken away) to make it better!

click here to go to the plugin page