PublishPress Series v3.1.3: New Welcome Panel and Clearer Series Settings
This post is about a release of the PublishPress Series plugin. This plugin allows you to organize WordPress posts into issues or series. This is ideal for anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic.
PublishPress Series v3.1.3 focuses on making the plugin easier to start using and smoother to manage day to day. The headline change is a new welcome panel that helps new users take their first steps, alongside clearer settings screens and a set of important maintenance fixes.
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New welcome experience for first time users
This release adds a welcome panel designed to guide new users toward the most important early action: creating their first Series. If you are setting up the plugin on a new site, this should make the first few minutes more straightforward and help you find the right place to begin.
Settings are easier to understand
The settings area has also been improved so site owners and editors can better understand what each option does before changing it.
- Setting descriptions: Each editor setting now includes a short description to explain its purpose.
- Indented sub settings: Related options are visually grouped under their parent setting for easier scanning.
- Pro badges: Pro feature badges now link to the Series upgrade page so users can quickly learn what is included.
Bug fixes and maintenance updates
PublishPress Series v3.1.3 includes several fixes that improve reliability across the admin area, compatibility with newer PHP versions, and upgrade routines.
- Add Series filter: The category filter on the Add Series screen has been fixed.
- Fatal error prevention: A “Cannot redeclare ppseries_addons_settings_hooks()” error has been resolved.
- PHP compatibility: PHP 8.5 deprecation warnings related to SplObjectStorage have been addressed.
- Database upgrade: A failed series icon column upgrade issue has been fixed.
- Free plugin screens: The missing top banner has been restored on three screens.
- Translation support: The “Custom Template” string is no longer hard coded and can now be translated.
Developer improvements
This update also includes cleanup and workflow improvements for developers and maintainers.
- Safer template handling: Escaping and sanitization were improved in the series navigation template tags.
- Code cleanup: The use of extract() was replaced with explicit variable assignments.
- Function refactor: The ppseries_get_series_slug() function was simplified by removing a redundant global variable declaration.
- Repository maintenance: Development workspace files, GitHub workflows, and Dependabot triage automation were updated.
This post provides an overview of the new features in this release of the PublishPress Series plugin. The complete changelogs for both Free and Pro versions are available in our Docs area.
Organize WordPress posts into issues or series
PublishPress Series allows you to group posts into issues or series. This is ideal for anyone who writes multiple posts on the same topic.
