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title: The Series Post Navigation Template
description: One feature in PublishPress Series is a Navigation strip that gets displayed with posts that are part of a series containing links to the next and previous posts in the series. This provides another way for users to click through to other…
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updated: "2026-03-16"
category: PublishPress Series / Series Templates
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# The Series Post Navigation Template

One feature in PublishPress Series is a Navigation strip that gets displayed with posts that are part of a series containing links to the next and previous posts in the series. This provides another way for users to click through to other posts in the series.

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## The Post Navigation Template

This screenshot below shows an example of the navigation template with forward and back arrows.

![Series Navigation](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/post-navigation-1-1024x217.png)
Series Nav Shortcode Output

You can control the design of this box by going to Series > Settings > Post Navigation, and choosing the "Custom Template" option.

![Post Navigation template](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/post-navigation-template-1024x575.png)
Nav Options

You control the output by inserting various tokens, text, and HTML markup.

You can automatically insert the series navigation strip into your blog by using the `%postcontent%` token. In this image above, the `%postcontent%` token is before the rest of the template telling the plugin that you want the Series Navigation Strip to show up after the post-content.

Removing the `%postcontent%` token would keep your post content from displaying. If you don't want the series navigation strip to show up just remove everything except for the `%postcontent%` token.

`%postcontent%` controls automatic insertion into the full post page views of your blog theme (on `is_single();`pages).

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## Template tags and Functions for Post Navigation

Here are the details for customizing the template files:

- `wp_series_nav()` - gets the links for previous OR next posts in a series. This function takes the arguments: series_ID.
- `wp_assemble_series_nav()` - this calls the series navigation template and replaces all the `%tokens%` with the related series information.

For developers who want to dig more deeply into the code, detailed explanations are included in the `orgSeries-template-tags.php` file: