Series Posts Please!
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It would be great if wordpress.com supported series posts better. I do not have access to plugins, so don’t know which ones of these are the best, but I know that there are options out there. I would love to be able to automatically create a listing of posts (in order, not last first) for a certain category, and to be able to easily include a ‘next in this series’ and ‘previous in this series’ link after each post.
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THANK YOU!!!
That is perfect! I’ve had such a hard time seeing the difference between things you can do on the free wordpress.com vs. those you need wordpress.org for. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is great!
Would there be any way to use this to throw links at the bottom of a post to direct you to the next in line, or previous in the series? It feels lit somehow this could happen, but I haven’t hit upon it in my experimenting yet. Thank you so much for your help!
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As the date and post tile are embedded into every URL on a published post we can predict what the URL of the next post in a series will be. Does that help?
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oops! post tile was meant to be post title
I’ve had such a hard time seeing the difference between things you can do on the free wordpress.com vs. those you need wordpress.org for.
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Does that help -> Maybe??? I have to think about that. do you know what the post ID is? I feel like that might be key.
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@ brewsacks,
I would love to be able to…easily include a ‘next in this series’ and ‘previous in this series’ link after each post.
Your posts automatically display links to the previous and next post chronologically. You may add such links to the bottom of your posts selectively, for example, choosing only those in a series of related posts, by copying the links and pasting them where you’d like them to appear.
Examples:
1. <span class=”meta-nav”>←</span> Structure Series #1: First Things First, or Donald Maass Strikes Again2. Structure Series #2: Plotting for the Pantser <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>
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I’ll try that again:
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<a href="https://kjottinger.wordpress.com/2015/06/08/structure-series-1-first-things-first-or-donald-maass-strikes-again/" rel="prev">Structure Series #1: First Things First, or Donald Maass Strikes Again</a>which creates the link Structure Series #1: First Things First, or Donald Maass Strikes Again
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The left and right (previous and next) arrows from your links don’t display here, but do when I paste the links into a blog post window.
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Thank you… I’ll have to play around with that. I think it will make more sense as I try it. I know that I can manually add links to this post or that post, but it would be nice to get an automatic next in series or previous in series link to appear, without me having to orchestrate every detail.
I’ll play though, maybe that is somehow what you’re getting at, and I’m just not seeing it yet. What is the ‘rel=”prev”‘?
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@ brewsacks,
I know that I can manually add links to this post or that post, but it would be nice to get an automatic next in series or previous in series link to appear, without me having to orchestrate every detail.
I suspected that was what you were after, and then regretted going into so much detail on creating links. If you look at the bottom of your single posts (not the posts or blog page) you’ll see that links to previous and next posts appear automatically on the Reddle theme. You’re asking if the same thing can happen with a selected series of posts. The problem with this is that you may know that a group of posts form a series, but how would WP know?
One problem with regard to implementing your idea is that there is only one posts page allowed on a WordPress.com website. If you could have two posts streams, then it would be easy to create one with only selected posts in a series, and the problem would be solved.
I’ll play though, maybe that is somehow what you’re getting at…
That’s right. I don’t have an ideal solution, so instead I offered a suboptimal suggestion.
What is the ‘rel=”prev”‘?
It stands for “relationship = previous.” It evidently directs the link to the previous post in a series chronologically. The order of the series in that case is identified by the timestamps of the individual posts.
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One common way of organizing posts in groups by category, is to assign a specific category or tag to related posts. Category and tag archives pages then automatically assemble posts into groups by category and tag, respectively. Then custom menus may be created to provide arranged link menus to the posts in selected categories, and (if applicable) subcategories.
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Thanks all! So helpful. I figured out enough to make my life significantly easier! I appended the ordered list to the end of each series post, as a menu thingy, which will get kind of long, but that is OK, because I stuck the cut-off break ahead of it so it is hidden until someone wants to read more. A great work-around, and I’ll survive just fine without getting exactly what I want!
You guys are great, and I really appreciate all the detailed responses!
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I appended the ordered list to the end of each series post, as a menu thingy
Nice workaround. Glad to help. : )
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