The Manage Series Screen

The Manage Series feature is available in the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Series. This feature allows you to quickly manage all posts linked to a Series. You can use this screen to re-order, schedule publish, and unpublish all the posts in a Series.

This “Manage Series” screen is available under the “Posts” link in the WordPress admin area:

In the image below, you can see the full “Manage Series” screen with 3 series:

Manage Series

Here are some of the tools on this screen that you can use to manage your series:

  • Series order: This allows you to change the order of the posts in your series.
  • Publish or schedule posts: Either publish the whole series now, or schedule it for the future.
  • View series in frontend: Takes you to the visitors' view of this series.

The Series Order Feature #

If you click on “Series order” you will be taken to the screen shown in the image below. This feature allows you to drag-and-drop posts in the Series into a new order. Take a look at the image below and you'll see that movies are in wrong order (if you don't like Star Wars, you'll have to trust us on this).

Series order screen
Update Order Series

You can select each row and drag and post into it's correct position:

Drag and drop series
Drag Drop Series

Also on this screen, you can see any unpublished posts in this series. When you're ready, you can click the “Publish Unpublished Posts” button to add them to the series.


Publish or schedule posts #

The “Publish or schedule posts” link will also take you to a new screen. In the right sidebar, you can choose a publishing date for any unpublished posts in this series.

Publish All
Publish All

If you choose the current date, the posts will publish immediately. If you choose a date in the future, all the posts in the series will be scheduled. In the image below, you can see that 3 posts in this series are scheduled for future publication.

Schedule All Posts