Post Series

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Organize related posts into multi-part series.

Location: Member Blog → Series


Overview

Post Series help members:

  • Group related posts together
  • Guide readers through multi-part content
  • Build comprehensive guides and tutorials
  • Track reader progress across posts

Features

Feature Description
Series Creation Group related posts together
Navigation Previous/Next buttons between series posts
Table of Contents Auto-generated list of all posts in series
Progress Tracking Show readers their completion percentage
Series Landing Page Archive page for each series

Settings

Setting Options Description
Navigation Style Buttons, Links, Cards How prev/next looks
TOC Position Before, After, Both Where TOC appears
Enable Progress Yes/No Track reader progress
Series URL Slug Custom text URL structure (default: “series”)
Allow Non-Logged Progress Yes/No Track guest readers

Creating a Series

For Members

  1. Create a new post (or edit existing)
  2. Find the Series section in the post form
  3. Click Add to Series
  4. Either:
    • Select an existing series
    • Or create a new series (enter name)
  5. Optionally set position in series (Part 1, 2, 3…)
  6. Save the post

Series Options in Post Form

Option Description
Select Series Dropdown of user’s existing series
Create New Enter name for new series
Position Order in series (auto-increments if blank)
Remove from Series Unlink post from series

Series Navigation

Appears at the end of each post in a series:

Navigation Display Example

← Previous: Part 2 - Setting Up     |     Next: Part 4 - Advanced Tips →

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Part 3 of 5 in "Complete WordPress Guide"
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Navigation Styles

Style Appearance
Buttons Styled buttons with arrows
Links Simple text links
Cards Rich cards with thumbnails

Table of Contents

Auto-generated list of all posts in the series:

TOC Example

Complete WordPress Guide (5 parts)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✓ Part 1: Introduction
✓ Part 2: Setting Up
→ Part 3: Core Concepts (You are here)
○ Part 4: Advanced Tips
○ Part 5: Conclusion
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

TOC Position Options

Position Where It Appears
Before Content At the top of the post
After Content At the bottom, before comments
Both Top and bottom
Sidebar Via shortcode in sidebar widget

Progress Tracking

Track reader progress across series posts:

How It Works

  1. Reader views a post in the series
  2. Post marked as “read” for that reader
  3. Progress percentage updates
  4. Visual indicator shows completion

Progress Display

Your Progress: ████████░░ 60% (3 of 5 parts read)

Progress Storage

Reader Type Storage Method
Logged-in users User meta
Guests (if enabled) Browser cookies

Series Landing Page

Each series gets its own archive page:

URL: yoursite.com/series/complete-wordpress-guide/

Landing Page Shows

  • Series title and description
  • Total posts in series
  • List of all posts with status
  • Overall reading progress
  • “Start Reading” or “Continue” button

Shortcodes

Series Navigation

Add navigation manually in post content:

[bp-member-blog-series-nav]

Table of Contents

Display TOC anywhere:

[bp-member-blog-series-toc]

Series Archive

List all series on a page:

[bp-member-blog-series-list]

Attributes:

Attribute Default Description
user_id current Show specific user’s series
count 10 Number of series to show
show_count yes Show post count per series

Managing Series

Reordering Posts

  1. Go to series settings (or edit a post in series)
  2. Drag posts to reorder
  3. Or manually set position numbers
  4. Save changes

Editing Series

  1. Go to Member Blog → Series
  2. Find the series
  3. Click Edit
  4. Update name, description, or settings
  5. Save

Deleting a Series

  1. Find the series
  2. Click Delete
  3. Choose what happens to posts:
    • Keep posts (just unlink from series)
    • Delete posts too

Multi-Author Series

Series can include posts from multiple authors:

  1. Primary author creates the series
  2. Other authors select the series when creating posts
  3. All posts appear in the same series
  4. Each author retains ownership of their posts

Use Cases

Tutorial Series

  • “Learn JavaScript in 10 Days”
  • Sequential learning path
  • Progress tracking for students

Storytelling

  • “My Travel Adventures” (ongoing)
  • “Building a Startup” diary
  • Chronological narrative

Reference Guides

  • “Complete SEO Guide”
  • Non-sequential reference
  • TOC for easy navigation

Course Content

  • Course modules as series
  • Lesson posts within each
  • Track student progress

SEO Benefits

Series provide SEO advantages:

Benefit How
Internal linking Automatic links between related posts
Topic authority Comprehensive coverage signals expertise
User engagement Readers consume more content
Reduced bounce Navigation keeps readers on site

Troubleshooting

Issue Solution
Navigation not showing Check if post is in a series
Wrong post order Edit positions in series settings
Progress not tracking Verify progress tracking is enabled
Series page 404 Flush permalinks (Settings → Permalinks → Save)
Last updated: January 15, 2026