Series of posts in WP.com?
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I am just starting to design my new wordpress.com site and have run into a significant problem and therefore a question. Many of the posts I plan to upload are in series; they’re too long to squeeze into one very long post. I understand that plugins are available for wordpress.org sites that can configure series of posts: Organize Series; Post Series; Simple Course Creator. Is there a way to do something similar for a wordpress.com site? I could upgrade to a Personal plan, but I believe plug-ins are only available for the Business plan, which is beyond my budget. Thanks for your help.
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Hi @leoronan, I actually haven’t used those plugins. Can you tell us what specific feature set you need?
Typically when I’ve seen folks do a series here, they’ll write a post and put it in a certain category, or use a certain tag, then do the same with more posts from there.
If you wanted to display them from oldest to newest, you could create a menu link that does that for you.
Let us know how you want it to turn out, and we’ll see what built-in features we can recommend.
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Good evening, Supernovia. Thanks for your response! Here’s a good example of what I’m hoping to re-create on our WordPress.com website. The example is from our WordPress.org site. If you go to http://lightmorning.org/ and click on the Articles button at the top of the page, you’ll see a choice between Single Articles and Extended Explorations (aka, series of posts). Click on Extended Explorations and you’ll see 10 series of posts. Each post in one of the series has an active link, and at the end of each post you have the choice to either go back to the earlier post in the series or continue on to the next post in the series. Is there a way to do this, or something quite close to it, in WordPress.com? Thanks.
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Hi,
Each post in one of the series has an active link, and at the end of each post you have the choice to either go back to the earlier post in the series or continue on to the next post in the series.
So you can group posts by tag or category. But the next and previous buttons will go to the next or previous post on the site, regardless of whether it’s in the same category. So if you wanted to do that on a free WordPress site, for example, you’ll need to ensure that your posts in a series are not interrupted by posts from a different series, if that makes sense.
If you want people to be able to follow a series and get updates when you add new items, I’d recommend using posts. But, if they don’t need to be posts and can be pages instead, you could accomplish something like that with static pages, then list the pages for each series. Just create parent pages, then add each item as a child page. You can even change the page order.
As one more possible option, you could actually create each series as a separate blog with its own posts.
Or, of course there is the option to go ahead and get a Business site and add plugins as needed.
Does that help?
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One other thing you could do, if the posts in a series don’t need to be “dripped” out one at a time, is simply paginate a single post. That may suit your needs.
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Thanks for all the options to chew on!
You say, “As one more possible option, you could actually create each series as a separate blog with its own posts.”
Is it possible to have more than one blog on one WP.com site? In other words, could I have one blog page on the site be for individual posts and a second blog page be for series of posts?
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It’s not possible to have more than one blog, but you can separate out posts to different pages on your site by using categories.
So you’ll still have one main posts feed that shows all your posts, but then you can add different categories to your site’s menu, and if someone clicks on that category in the menu, they’ll only see posts published in that category:
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