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In Series and WordPress 2.5
Unfortunately, WordPress 2.5 completely breaks my tests — specifically, my automation can’t seem to get a sane post ID back after saving a new post. So, In Series is, and will for the forseeable future, remain untested with WordPress 2.5. It should work; use at your own risk (and please report back with any issues).
19 Responses to “In Series and WordPress 2.5”
Posted: Apr 1st, 2008 at 04:18
It works really well for me on WP2.5.. Worked right out of the box after the upgrade.
Let me mention at this point that I’m using v 3.0.12
Posted: Apr 2nd, 2008 at 10:14
Awesome job ! A question for you.
I want to be able to use series articles created with in a series as the main text in the body of a page. The layout and navigation of in a series is ideal for this.
A few other plugins and you are close to achieving a CMS look and feel. Plugins such as postlists and my custom widgets…
I’ve been searching and cannot find a function to echo an individual post, such as into the main body of a page.
I know this is not an in a series question, but if you have a suggestion it would be great.
Posted: Apr 2nd, 2008 at 19:46
@Vishwas
Thanks. I always appreciate guinea pigs, but I hate requiring them, because that usually means folks are inconvenienced when issues crop up. I expect it to work, but I’d feel better about declaring officially if I could get my @$%! tests to work. Ah well. :)
@Mike
Something like $old_id = get_the_ID(); setup_postdata($post_id); the_content(); setup_postdata($old_id); I would presume, but I don’t honestly know if/how “the loop” works in pages vs. posts.
Posted: Apr 7th, 2008 at 03:40
wordpress 2.5 can wait for me. had nothing but trouble yet with upgrades as most (cool) plugins rely on old chunks of code :&
hope you are doing well on any tests, once I have no more university this semester I will excessively using in-series again.
Posted: Apr 7th, 2008 at 15:21
It isn’t working for me with 2.5 Nond of the old series are intact and my formatting page is just a bunch of A’s in each box. I had some problems installing 2.5 so that could be my issue.
Any thoughts?
Posted: Apr 7th, 2008 at 17:23
@Crossn81
First thought: check the FAQ.
This sounds vaguely familiar. I’ll dig a bit if you tried the steps in the FAQ and things still aren’t panning out.
Did you create a new DB, or upgrade in place? In Series has its own tables, so you must make sure that those tables exist in your current DB.
Posted: Apr 27th, 2008 at 06:46
Uh-oh, for my WP 2.5 the In Series Plugin (3.1.0 beta 5) only works for existing series. I cannot add a new post to an existing series because the drop down menu is empty (except for —new series—).
PS: I have the updated translation for the beta version, should you be interested in that. Or do you want to wait until it is out of beta?
Posted: Apr 27th, 2008 at 10:18
Hey Julia,
Could you confirm for me that you have gone through the proper upgrade procedure? The plugin works fine for me in my 2.5 test bed. Did you only upgrade WordPress, or did you upgrade In Series at (roughly) the same time, too?
As for the translation… I’ll be happy to post it up for the time being if nothing else. I’m fairly sure that the strings are pretty much locked down.
Thanks!
Posted: Apr 27th, 2008 at 22:59
I upgraded In Series before the WordPress update and I did deactivate, delete, copy and reactivate the plugin.
The existing series work just fine (toc and links displayed in the post).
I did the install again just now but still the drop down menu is empty.
In the database I have 3 tables with “prefix_in_series_3_0_11_xxx”. Those should not be there, right? How do I fix this? Is it possible by hand in the database?
Posted: Apr 28th, 2008 at 14:17
Hey, I love your plugin, but have a few questions:
I’m on WordPress 2.5.1, and In Series 3.0.12. I put a bunch of posts that were out of chronological order into a series and the links lead me through all the posts between the ones linked (so the first post was like april 1st, and I had another unrelated on april 2nd and then the second in the series on april 3rd…the link force to me the april 2nd post, even though it’s not in the series).
Also, is there anyway to make this work on pages in addition to posts?
Thanks.
Posted: Apr 28th, 2008 at 16:06
@ Julia
Er… those tables are where In Series stores its data. They should absolutely be there — there’s a problem if they’re missing. Can you get me the error output of PHP perchance?
@ Icarus
Are the posts in the order you want them in the drop-down? Please see the section on reordering a series in the documentation if the posts are in the wrong order.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 05:01
Good, the tables are correct (the name threw me off a bit).
One more thing I noticed: I have an old draft which I added to an existing series before the update (of both In Series an WordPress). In the editor view the post is correctly shown to belong to the series. What I don’t know is if the previous/next links will be correctly added once I publish the post (within the next 2 days).
OK, now on to the PHP error output. Where do I get that from?
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 06:52
Yes they are in order in the drop-down. The problem is that when viewing the posts in the series, they are linking to posts that are not in the series. You can see what I’m talking about here. All of the posts titled “Remains, pt. X” are in the series, but you can see with the previous and next links that they are linking to posts not in the series.
Thanks.
Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 07:25
@ Julia
Yes, the links will be correct when you publish; that’s a tested scenario.
The “fatal errors” entry in the faq has links to relevant PHP documentation for enabling errors to show up directly in your web pages.
Posted: May 5th, 2008 at 05:26
Hello Quandary -
Just a heads up, I’m going to be installing In Series 3.0.12 on my Wordpress 2.5 install. Since I see Julia is having quite the problem, I have no problem assisting as I soon plan to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1 and figure after I write some posts, I can upgrade to 3.1.0 Beta.
Since the steps were confirmed as upgrade plugin first, then wordpress, I’ll do the same and let you know of any errors. Then maybe we can pinpoint the problems/bugs and get 3.1.0 out of Beta!
Quandary, you ok with that?
I’m writing and SEO for Business series that will hopefully have it’s first post today. If you need access to any specific area of the site, let me know.
Posted: May 5th, 2008 at 06:56
@Jori
Please, be my guest. :)
(P.S., I fixed your link’s domain, but it still 404s — I presume because you haven’t written the series yet.)
Posted: May 5th, 2008 at 07:05
@Icarus
Sorry for the late reply. Your comment got caught in the spam trap. :(
In Series issues links called “Previous in series” and “Next in series” (that’s the default text anyway). You’re looking at WordPress’ previous/next links, which do not have anything to do with In Series. The In Series links are working just fine… they’re at the very end of the post, and do not include any non-series links. :)
Posted: May 14th, 2008 at 05:40
Found the error!!!
It was my very own wrongoing because I changed the my user ID (for security reasons). Of course then in the In Series table the user ID did not match.
After I corrected the ID all my series showed up again in the editor’s drop down menu.
Posted: May 14th, 2008 at 06:33
Ah yes… that indeed has a way of causing problems. :)
Glad you sleuthed it out!