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Features

The following is a brief overview of all the features in Organize Series. For more indepth coverage of the features of Organize Series you can follow the Organize Series Usage Tips Series on my blog. Better yet, why not subscribe to the usage feed?

NEWEST FEATURE: Organize Series Publisher Plugin

Organize Series now comes bundled with a plugin that is the result of some custom work I did for Amanda Giles who graciously agreed to make this available to all Organize Series users. The Organize Series Publisher plug-in allows you to quickly publish all posts linked to a Series. It is dependent on having the Organize Series plug-in installed and activated. The Publisher plug-in works by adding a Status to each Series. If the status for a Series is "Unpublished", all posts tied to that Series can be individually published, but those posted will be "held" until the Series itself is published. Once the Series is "Published", all previously published posts in that series will be immediately published and visible on your site. Any posts in a Series still in the Draft status will be left as such and will not be published (until individually published). If you have a large number of articles, this saves time and provides a clean "publish" with no accidental broken links from unpublished posts.

For more details on this feature you can check it out on the Organize Series Plugin Page on my website.

Integration with WordPress taxonomy system

Beginning with version 2.3, WordPress introduced a database and core change that resulted in a new taxonomy system. The core WordPress has two taxonomies - "categories" and "tags". Organize Series introduces a new taxonomy "series". Thanks to the rich api provided to plugin authors Organize Series takes advantage of (as much as possible) the built-in WP goodness! As an added bonus - plugin developers can expand on what Organize Series offers by interacting with the new series taxonomy and the built-in filters/hooks.

More "organize" for taking care of your series...

Check these additions to your WordPress administration:

• A "Manage Series" page. Add, delete, edit all your series on one handy dandy page. Functioning much like the "Manage Category" page, Organize Series makes it easy to keep track of all the series you are writing.
• Integration with the Edit->Posts page. Now it's easier than ever to keep track of what posts have been added to series in a familiar setting. Even better, you can also filter the post list by series giving you a quick way to see all the posts you've already added to the series. Organize Series also integrates with the "quick-edit" feature - so you can edit series information for posts right on this page.

Add "prettify" recognition to your series...

Easily associate images with your Series via the Manage->Series page. Images can be easily uploaded, picked using the built-in WordPress Media uploader.

Integration with Write/Edit posts page

Organize Series brings a new "box" to your write/edit posts page for series related tasks:

• Add new series on the fly. Ajaxified and simple to use (works pretty much the same as adding new categories on the fly)
• Add posts to existing series.
• Choose what order you want that post to be in the series. If you leave the field blank, your post will automatically be appended to end of the series. But if you want you can number that post to be whatever part you want and every other post in the series will be automatically adjusted for their new parts Is that cool? Yeah, I thought so too!

Works out of the box.

Once you've activated the plugin (and are not importing from earlier versions) all you have to do is visit the Series Options page and then you're ready to go (you don't have to change/or add anything!). Out of the box, Organize Series defaults to automatically insert into your blog all the necessary "template tags" for displaying series related information.

Use permalinks? No problem, Organize Series detects that and introduces a permalink structure for series archive pages (defaults to http://yourblogaddress.com/series/%theseriesslug%). Don't like the default settings/look...well...

Complete options page for easy customization without having to edit any .php files

Nearly everything you might want to customize with Organize Series can be done on the Series->Options page:

• Control placement of series related info (Series Meta, Series Table of Contents, Series Postlist boxes, Series Navigation Strip, etc.)
• Customize the html output or series related info by using the %token% system with a token legend right on the page (check out the screenshots tab).
• Control what the path of your "series table of contents" link will be.
• Control how posts in a series will be displayed on series archive pages. The default is by date in descending order (newest to oldest) - but you can order it by part too.
• Set the icon width for images associated with series for different pages.

Pretty cool eh? But maybe you'd like to be able to customize things even more?...

A whole bundle of template tags for theme authors and WP tweakers

Do you actually like going into the guts of your theme files? Then, you'll love the "template tags" organize series makes available for you! Better yet, I've made it easy for you to find them: All the template tags you'll ever need are found in the series-template-tags.php file in your Organize Series plugin directory. Each tag is also fully documented inline so you can have a better idea what it does!

You can also edit the default .css file for orgSeries OR point to your custom .css in styles.css for your theme.

Oh, if you implement Organize Series in a cool way let me know here

And one last thing I've just gotta mention...

Widgets!! Need I say more?

Usage

There's just so much to say about how you can use Organize Series that I've decided to write a series of posts dealing with using Organize Series. You can follow along with the series here or feast on the feed.

Don't forget, if you have questions related to usage, I'm usually pretty good at responding to requests for help here.

Have fun - and get writing those series!!