Maintenance-only for In Series
Well folks, I think it’s been a fairly decent run, but I’m throwing in the towel for In Series. I’ll be around to answer questions and hammer out some bugs here and there, but the release schedule of WordPress has thrown me for my last loop; it’s just too much work and not enough reward. I also don’t seriously use my own plugin — I’m not exactly an avid blogger :) — and I think that’s a big missing piece for any internal motivation that I had.
I’d like to thank Lorelle VanFossen for the inspiration she provided — she is ultimately the reason I got started with this project. I’d also like to thank Scott “Skippy” Merrill for the original codebase, and his support in transitioning the project off to me. Of course, I’d like to thank my users for not only using my plugin, but being so kind as to report bugs, translate, and even leave a donation now and again.
I would very much like to find a new maintainer for this plugin; however, if you would like to pursue a developed alternative, Organize Series is also available, and now has many of the features of In Series.
11 Responses to “Maintenance-only for In Series”
Posted: May 1st, 2008 at 10:28
Thanks for all your hard work and dedication over the years with In Series - it is a fantastic plugin and I really hope someone steps forward to take up the development, as you did in the past.
Best wishes
Posted: May 5th, 2008 at 08:31
[…] for yet another release of Organize Series. Incidentally - I noticed that Travis Snoozy made the announcement that he is no longer actively developing his “In-Series” plugin and will only be maintaining it until he can find someone to take over it’s development. […]
Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 02:46
Thanks for the plugin / work you have done!
I have one question: I do not understand how I can hack my theme just to the serielist and next links ONLY in single.php.
My Website: Blog Tim You can see the first Post. The list ist under the_content()
Thanks for helping & Best wishes!
Posted: May 13th, 2008 at 18:25
Don’t hack the theme; use the 3.1 Beta and set up appropriate templates for multi-post vs. single views.
Posted: May 16th, 2008 at 01:48
Thanks for the hard work you have put into this. I didn’t realise that you didn’t even us it yourself! Truly a work of love.
I’ll certainly keep on using it until WordPress takes a step too far, and then I guess I’ll have to transition to the Organise Series plugin. That’s not a scenario that I face with much relish. Or even a dab of mustard. :)
Posted: Jun 4th, 2008 at 07:17
Hi, sorry to see that you’re not going to be able to help with this anymore! I think it fills a HUGE hole in how WP (doesn’t) work - what kind of publication throws series articles out in any order that they were received from the authors? If you’re writing a series, you write all the articles as information comes in, you don’t hold up the entire set because you’re waiting for a research point on article 2 to be clarified.
Anyways, I just installed it today on WP 2.5, and if you’re in the mood to answer a question, I’ve got one.
I found that when I applied a series name and chose First for the first article (in a previously created series), it worked fine. But when I tried to choose the same series for the second article, it didn’t have the new series name in the dropdown? Also, it only had First and Last radio buttons on the second (or any) article, so I’m not seeing how I could choose the order.
Am I missing something here? I read through the documentation and it looks like it just isn’t getting the new series.
Thanks for all of your hard work on this!
Posted: Jun 4th, 2008 at 09:06
The drop-down changes meaning. If the post is in a series, that drop-down is a list of posts — this is how you reorder a post to an arbitrary position within the series. If the post is not in a series, then the drop-down is a list of existing series (and the text box appears after it so you can create a new series). There is a column in the “manage” tab for posts that will allow you to see whether or not a post is in a series, and if it is in a series, which series.
As to why an existing series would not show up in the drop-down: the most common cause for this is that the post author is different from the author who created the series. Verify that you don’t have more than one login, or anything like that.
Posted: Jun 9th, 2008 at 01:32
Question: Bug or Feature?
Changes to the simple options are not registered when I switch to advanced options. E.g. I want the TOC to appear in all views and I changed that in the simple options. But as soon as I save any changes in the advanced options it reverted back to “only in single post views”.
Maybe this is related to the fact that the simple options page is not localized.
Posted: Jun 9th, 2008 at 07:31
Feature.
Posted: Jan 15th, 2009 at 00:16
Nice and impressive plugin. I want to use this plugin to my blog Drobon.com but I’m confused bcoz I don’t know whether it is compatible to Wordpress v2.7.
Posted: Jan 15th, 2009 at 05:34
It might work, but it’s neither tested nor supported after WordPress 2.4.