12 Oct
3.1 Open for Beta
A newer beta is available; please see 3.1.0 Beta 2.
All right, folks; I’ve tagged off 3.1.0 Beta 1. The adventurous can give it a try — it should be mostly operational, and has all sorts of nifty, shiny, new, undocumented goodness. The new (not yet documented) features are:
- Widgets!
- Table of Contents
- Series List (with the nifty “most recently posted to” sort as an option!)
- Different layouts for single and multi views is back!
- New “basic” configuration screen (with the option to switch to the advanced screen from 3.0)
- The ability to tag series from e-mail or other remote posting, with <!–series-*–> tags.
- The ability to add links for the first and last posts in a series.
- The ability to have the first, previous, next and last links show up with a different format if the link doesn’t have anything to point to (or it would point to the current page).
I’m really excited about the feature set in this release — I’m gearing up to write the automated tests, but I wanted to give the daring a chance to start playing with the plugin now. Naturally, if you find any bugs, please let me know. Oh, and you should totally back your database up before installing this. ;)
Download In Series 3.1.0 Beta 1.
Table of contents for In Series Releases
- In Series 2.1.0
- In Series 2.1.1
- In Series 2.2.0
- In Series 2.2.1
- In Series 2.2.2
- 3.0.0 Escaped!
- 3.0.1 Out…
- 3.0.2: In Series for Everyone
- 3.0.3: Security and Bugfixes
- 3.0.4 Out
- 3.0.5: FK Fandango
- 3.0.6: Come and Get It
- 3.0.7: Nothing Important
- 3.1 Open for Beta
- In Series 3.1 Beta 2
- In Series 3.0.8 — Someone Found a Bug!
- In Series 3.0.9 — performance boost
- In Series 3.0.10 (that was fast…)
- In Series 3.0.11 — Collation and Character Sets
- In Series 3.0.12: Breathing Room
14 Responses to “3.1 Open for Beta”
Posted: Oct 13th, 2007 at 19:03
I was playing around with the plugin and noticed two bugs.
1. Remove is not working for me. When I try to remove a post from a series and save the post, the post is not removed from the series.
2. When modifying the options in basic mode and saving, any custom options in advanced mode are lost. They can be picked up again by changing to advanced mode and saving the options again, but this loses any modifications made in basic mode.
I’m using wp 2.3 btw.
Feature request: Having the option to place the TOC on the first post in the series only would be great.
Great work on the plugin!
Posted: Oct 13th, 2007 at 20:04
@Jeff
Noted; I pulled out a limiter in hopes that I’d get the post-in-multiple-series feature in. It didn’t happen, so I need to put the limiter back (doing this will make the removal code work again). I’ve checked the fix into the 3.1 maintenance branch.
This is actually by design — Basic and Advanced are completely independent of each other. The reason is because folks who are upgrading may want to try out the basic config, or someone could accidentally switch to basic settings. In these cases it would be a pain to lose all the advanced settings due to the mode switch. You should not have to save for the new settings to take effect when switching between basic/advanced modes. I considered a side-feature (a separate button) to send basic settings to advanced settings, but haven’t implemented it.
That’s a feature for 3.2 (it’s been mentioned before), provided indirectly via inline tags. I still don’t have a bug # for this, though I probably should. ;)
Posted: Oct 14th, 2007 at 20:48
@Jeff
Oops, looks like I was wrong about the removal thing. My automated tests blew up in my face because all reordering operations were broken. I tracked the problem down to the logic, and made a fix that got the tests passing again. I could have sworn that re-adding the limiter had fixed the problem, but I was manually testing and multitasking at the time.
Thanks for the report, in any case. :)
Posted: Oct 16th, 2007 at 06:57
This is pretty exciting. Perhaps I’ll use my site as a guinea pig over the weekend…. I don’t mind running into problems since Quandary has always been so great at fixing any problems pretty quickly!
Posted: Oct 16th, 2007 at 09:06
@Ananda
Thanks. I’ve shook about three bugs out of this particular Beta so far; you probably don’t want to use it on a production site or anything yet. However, all the automated tests from In Series 3.0 should be passing for the release of Beta 2, so (theoretically) if you stick to only the old functionality and don’t use any of the new stuff, it should be the same as before.
No promises yet, though. ;)
Posted: Oct 17th, 2007 at 19:48
No problem. Great work on the plugin! Sounds like it has a very promising future.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2007 at 04:22
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Posted: Oct 27th, 2007 at 08:03
Quandary, I started using your plugin last week and am extremely happy with it, and I’m also very impressed with the care and attention you give to the community regarding it. You’re a great asset to the wp community.
-c
Posted: Oct 27th, 2007 at 11:05
@Clint
I know how to build solid software, and even a thing or two about how to make it usable, but I must confess that I don’t know how to build a community. I’m trying real hard, though, and hopefully I’m getting some things right. ;)
I’m glad that you’re enjoying In Series; if you run into any problems, please be sure to let me know. Thanks!
Posted: Oct 28th, 2007 at 06:28
Ha, yeah youre doing a good job! One thing I have encountered that I havent figured out a way around yet is this: The site that I’m dev’ing has large images to start out posts. When I make an in series post the TOC appears above the image, I’m trying to figure out how I can get it to start below the image.
I’m putting in the images first in the post textarea.
Any thoughts?
Posted: Oct 28th, 2007 at 06:37
d00d! Beta 2 hooked me up, I can put the TOC at the bottom of the post thanks man!
Posted: Oct 28th, 2007 at 12:30
@Clint
You can re-arrange the ToC position in 3.0, too, but it’s nowhere near as obvious. ;)
That said, you’d have to make the image part of the site’s theme in order to get the ToC to come after the image, but before the rest of the post content. In Series can’t render things inside the post content (yet). I’m glad that you found a suitable alternative, though. :)
Posted: Nov 10th, 2007 at 00:13
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Posted: Nov 20th, 2007 at 07:18
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