There was a major bug reported today that I was able to reproduce and I quickly got a fix together (can’t believe I missed it!). I also slipped in a minor new feature so that users can choose to NOT have a backslash after the seriestoc url (see request here). That is all.
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Organize Series 2.1.6
Nov 2
I just finished getting the next version of my super duper series plugin for WordPress launched to the wild. Organize Series 2.1.5 has got some neat stuff in it:
- New Feature: A bundled plugin called “Organize Series Publisher”. You don’t have to activate it if you don’t want but it’s there if you want to try it out! This new add-on for Organize Series is a take-off of the Issues-Manager plugin created by Jonathan Brinley and was sponsored by Amanda Giles who hired me to port Issues-Manager so it works with Organize Series. Amanda graciously agreed to have this released to all users of Organize Series! Basically, this add-on allows you to set a series so any posts assigned to it won’t publish until you explicitly publish the whole series. Read more about it on the Organize Series Plugin Page
- New Feature: custom base for series permalinks. Yeah, now you can change ’series’ to something like ‘myawesomesequenceofposts’…well, you can..
- New Feature: Added a new function for you power users who want to be able to fully control the output of series data. get_series_ordered() has joined the party and you can thank Amanda for it too! With this function you can get series data from the database and manipulate it however you want when it’s returned. Do the tango with it if you want! Uh…yeah…
I’ve just pushed Organize Series 2.1.2 to WordPress/extend/plugins. This release of the plugin fixes series feeds that weren’t working and also (hopefully) fixes the problems with the_excerpt().
A pretty major bug slipped through with the release of Organize Series 2.1. What happens with the bug is when someone posts a comment to a post that is part of a series, that post will lose it’s series information. Not good. Organize Series 2.1.1 should fix that. You’ll want to upgrade as soon as possible.
At long last, another update to my flagship WordPress Plugin (well, really the only WordPress plugin I’ve developed…)! This is a significant release which is why I skipped doing a version 2.0.9 and went right to 2.1. A couple of quick notes about this release.
- Organize Series 2.1 will only work with WordPress 2.8 and higher. The code was starting to get bloated with trying to support all the previous releases and I really don’t have the time to keep supporting earlier versions of WordPress. If you really need to use Organize Series with an earlier version of WordPress then I suggest you keep using Organize Series 2.0.8.
- Because of some of the feature add-ons you really should read the note about upgrading (read this – scroll down a bit for the upgrade notes) so you don’t have any unexpected stuff happen.
- Going forward I’m still going to be offering limited support via my support forums. What does limited mean? It means I will answer basic questions that don’t take me a lot of time to answer and I will also respond to bug reports (and work on fixing them). However, I am unable to devote any more time to significant usage related questions or new feature requests. Feel free to post such requests in the forums and there may be other users willing to help you. Another option is to contact me and hire me to do custom work for you related to Organize Series.
It’s time to get out of beta and get this version onto WordPress.org/extend/plugins so more users can enjoy all the goodies. Once again, a big thanks to all the people who have helped test and fix the bugs that first got introduced way back when WordPress 2.6 was released. There’s so many of you I’ve lost track – but they are in the feed 
Click here to download Organize Series 2.0.8
Here’s a list of fixes/features with this new version:
New features
- Added a new argument to the “wplistseries” function – “number” which enables users to limit the number of series displayed
- Reworked the layout of Organize Series administration integration with WordPress so it “fits” with WordPress 2.7 – including showing “Series” in the Dashboard “Right Now” widget.
- Organize Series interface can be floated around and respositioned in the write/edit posts screen for WordPress 2.7
- moved the “Manage Series” menu item to the Posts submenu area for WP2.7 (previous versions stay in the same location)
Minor
- fixed an inconsistency with ’showlastupdate’
- fixed some bugs with the atom feed (was an early update…not sure if it’s still working correctly now)
Organize Series Beta 2
Oct 18
Fixed a bug reported here. This was a pretty major bug affecting scheduled posts that are a part of a series, let me know if you have any problems with it!
Download Organize Series 2.0.8 development version
UPDATE (12/6/08): Just a heads up that the link above downloads from the trunk of the Organize Series subversion repository so you will get the bleeding edge version of Organize Series (currently at 2.0.8beta4). I’m not going to be responding to bugs listed here as frequently (unless I can reproduce easily…so make sure your report is as thorough as possible) because I’m ramping up to get a release ready for when WordPress 2.7 is released this week. OrgSeries 2.0.8beta4 currently WORKS with WordPress 2.7 RC1
Patience pays off – for those of you waiting for a version of Organize Series that will work with the latest version of WordPress (currently WP 2.6.2)! I just want to give a shout out to all the people who have been trying to hack up fixes in the interim instead of just waiting (and a thanks to Matthew Porter who emailed me his version of a fix – which I used a section of). One of the major hurdles keeping me from releasing even just this beta is that my “unique” “automatic-series-part-ordering” system was horribly broken by the new revision system introduced with WordPress 2.6. The fixes offered up by others worked for adding new series but if you modified an existing post that is a part of a series and reordered it in the series then things would go haywire. So, I needed time to test and fix – which I haven’t had much of. Well today, sitting at my wife’s bedside in the hospital while she sleeped (and staying up a bit later too) I managed to hack off this beta. Here’s the rough changelist:
Just thought I’d put up a quick post to let folks know I am aware of the issues/bugs with Organize Series in the newly released version of WordPress. Unfortunately they are pretty major bugs and I will not be able to push out an update to Organize Series anytime soon. I just don’t have the time. To the impatient folk: I use Organize Series pretty extensively myself on my various blogs so I understand the pain this creates. I’m forced to hold off on upgrading my own WordPress installs until I can update Organize Series so ideally I’d like to get this fix done sooner rather than later but it just isn’t going to happen.
In the last post, I talked about how you can show off the latest series in your sidebar. One of the caveats of the latest_series() function/widget is that it only shows one series. The “latest series” function is just a way of giving readers quick insight into the most recent series you’ve published to your blog and is the easiest to customize.
However, there is another more powerful function included with Organize Series that you can use to output a list of all the series you’ve written where you want that acts very similar to the “wp_list_categories()” template tag in the WordPress core. What that means is that if you’ve already got a handle on how to use “wp-list_categories” then you’ll have no problem with “wp_list_series()”. Let’s take a closer look:
The Widget
For those of you who are uncomfortable with editing your theme files and who are using a theme with widgets enabled there is a widget included with Organize Series that you can use to output the list of series in your sidebar.
The widget name is “Series Widget” (imaginative eh?) and when you activate it you’ll see that there are some options you can set for the widget (Click on “Edit”). Here’s a breakdown of what the various options are:
My name is Darren Ethier. I'm the Assistant Pastor of Waterloo Pentecostal Assembly in Waterloo, Ontario. I'm the father of four children and husband of the most beautiful woman in the world. My passion is technology and it's strategic use in ministry. I'm also the developer of the popular WordPress plugin Organize Series 
