organize-series

Issues and Series for Newspapers, Magazines, Publishers, Writers

PublishPress Series is the publishing plugin that allows you to organize posts into issues or series. This is ideal for magazines, newspapers, writers …

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Needs sharper proof Magazine: Content publishing operations content publishing operations · final 52.5 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

Relative URL in rel css line

Relative URL in rel css line: users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Relative URL in rel css line Hello, Would it be possible to not use relative URLs in the html code?

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94

critical error after upgrading

critical error after upgrading: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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critical error after upgrading After upgrading to v3.1.0, the website started to show “critical error” when trying to view any post.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.94

v3.1.1 fails to open wp-admin “articles” with a fatal error.

v3.1.1 fails to open wp-admin “articles” with a fatal error.: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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v3.1.1 fails to open wp-admin “articles” with a fatal error.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.88

Pagination issue on all series

Pagination issue on all series: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Pagination issue on all series Greetings — I’m having a problem on all series, and that is the pagination is broken.

mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.86

Fiddly

Fiddly: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Fiddly It works, but it’s hard to get the styling right.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85

Higher Level of Permission Needed

Higher Level of Permission Needed: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Last November I upgraded all my websites to PHP 8.1.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85

Tags are shown in random

Tags are shown in random: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Best Bo The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] Hi Just started using your plug-in, but I really like it so far.

question support · medium severity · relevance 0.84

Grouping posts within Series?

Grouping posts within Series?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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I am trying to find a replacement for IssueM, which allows us to create posts, then assign them to a topic and an issue.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Style Sheet Changes

Style Sheet Changes: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Style Sheet Changes I’ve been using the plugin for a decade, and I’ve always used the same style sheet tags: .series-nav {background-color:#E1DBE6; width:100%; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top:0px; padding-top:2px; padding-bottom:2px; text-align:center; margin-top:25px;} .serieslist ul{padding:0px; margin:0px;} .serieslist-li {list-style-image:url(https://www

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

Error in the plugin when accessing /wp-admin/edit.php

Error in the plugin when accessing /wp-admin/edit.php: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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Error in the plugin when accessing /wp-admin/edit.php Hello When I go to /wp-admin/edit.php to view my posts, I get an error related to the plugin.

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Manage Issue Based Magazine (Multi-language) praise owner · intel 72.6 · weakness 64.2

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stale update history below-average rating bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

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Bug Library praise owner · intel 71.9 · weakness 62.7

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stale update history 12 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

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Fix Another update is currently in progress praise owner · intel 39.1 · weakness 32.2

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stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor update health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions

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Collected Signals

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complaint Series icon URLs are silently truncated due to VARCHAR(100) column limit support · 2026-05-27T08:50:54+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

PublishPress Series silently truncates icon URLs longer than 100 characters, breaking modern media or CDN image URLs without warning.

Evidence: If the icon URL exceeds 100 characters, it gets silently truncated before being saved, resulting in broken image URLs without any warning

bugs series icon URLs content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Error in the plugin when accessing /wp-admin/edit.php support · 2026-04-02T23:48:29+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Error in the plugin when accessing /wp-admin/edit.php: users show bugs, compatibility, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Error in the plugin when accessing /wp-admin/edit.php Hello When I go to /wp-admin/edit.php to view my posts, I get an error related to the plugin.

bugs compatibility setup quality content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed v3.1.1 fails to open wp-admin “articles” with a fatal error. support · 2026-04-02T20:19:12+00:00 · high severity · magazine

v3.1.1 fails to open wp-admin “articles” with a fatal error.: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: v3.1.1 fails to open wp-admin “articles” with a fatal error.

bugs compatibility support setup content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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question Settings – disabled shortcodes (3.1.0) support · 2026-03-11T09:48:15+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Settings – disabled shortcodes (3.1.0): users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Settings – disabled shortcodes (3.1.0) I have posted this on the Github too: https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-series/issues/1080 Disabling any of the “on page” views (post list box, post details, post navigation) now completely disables the shortcodes which is not preferable behaviour.

bugs missing feature reporting content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed critical error after upgrading support · 2026-03-10T21:46:36+00:00 · high severity · magazine

critical error after upgrading: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: critical error after upgrading After upgrading to v3.1.0, the website started to show “critical error” when trying to view any post.

bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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complaint PublishPress Series displaying in wrong order support · 2026-03-05T15:58:11+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Series pages displayed the latest episode first regardless of ordering settings, with the user later suspecting the theme.

Evidence: Changing from ascending to descending, or using date order does not affect this.

bugs compatibility support series post ordering content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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complaint Series boxes moved to top degrading this plugin support · 2026-01-02T04:28:54+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

The user says moving list boxes to the top degraded the free plugin and asks for placement customization to return.

Evidence: moving the list boxes to the top of the page is a backward-incompatible change

missing feature pricing series box placement content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed 2.14+ ‘List Box’ position not respected with Custom Template support · 2025-12-15T11:49:40+00:00 · low severity · magazine

2.14+ ‘List Box’ position not respected with Custom Template: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Please give us the freedom to choose again 💫 Currently, I’ve rolled-back to v2.14 to maintain the same view, everything is working as expected.

compatibility missing feature setup easy content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Count of series items is off by one support · 2025-12-04T19:42:12+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Count of series items is off by one: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Count of series items is off by one This appears to be a similar issue as reported in the following forum topic: Series showing 1 less (i.e.

bugs support value cache content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Style Sheet Changes support · 2025-11-24T23:57:13+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Style Sheet Changes: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Style Sheet Changes I’ve been using the plugin for a decade, and I’ve always used the same style sheet tags: .series-nav {background-color:#E1DBE6; width:100%; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-top:0px; padding-top:2px; padding-bottom:2px; text-align:center; margin-top:25px;} .serieslist ul{padding:0px; margin:0px;} .serieslist-li {list-style-image:url(https://www

compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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neutral German Language support · 2025-11-19T12:01:51+00:00 · low severity · magazine

A user offers German translations and the vendor directs them to a new translation platform or email workflow.

Evidence: I’ve added German translations to the project.

German translations content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Relative URL in rel css line support · 2025-11-17T21:17:37+00:00 · high severity · magazine

Relative URL in rel css line: users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Relative URL in rel css line Hello, Would it be possible to not use relative URLs in the html code?

security bugs performance missing feature content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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complaint Post image does not display when post is attached to a series – DIVI support · 2025-11-06T13:33:50+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Featured images stopped displaying in a Divi post slider when the related post was attached to a series.

Evidence: featured image doesn’t display in a post slider when the image’s associated post is attached to a series

bugs compatibility series featured images content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed PHP version 8+ breaks the plugin – 2.15 version support · 2025-09-28T11:49:41+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

A user initially thinks Organize Series breaks under PHP 8, but later finds a different outdated plugin was the cause and thanks the maintainer.

Evidence: I got the culprit: an outdated niche plugin which I love but that hasn’t been updated in ages

compatibility quality support series entry display content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

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complaint Free version: Undefined variable error references pro-only variable support · 2025-09-19T02:27:33+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

An update caused a visible undefined variable warning on series posts in the free plugin, and the maintainer confirmed a fix would ship next release.

Evidence: Warning : Undefined variable $maximum_items

bugs series post display content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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complaint ‘List Box’ disappears after v2.15 update support · 2025-09-13T15:59:09+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

After the v2.15 update, custom-template list boxes disappeared from posts, forcing the user to roll back to v2.14 while the vendor confirmed a free-version bug.

Evidence: After updating to v2.15, the List Box stops to show inside posts.

bugs quality series list box content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

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mixed Does exactly what I was looking for (5 stars) review · 2025-08-11T07:45:45+00:00 · low severity · magazine

The reviewer likes the free series plugin but says shortcodes would make them buy Pro and wishes series information were collapsible.

Evidence: Shortcodes would be something that would let me buy the pro version; however, currently I am satisfied

missing feature quality value series shortcodes collapse content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

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praise A great plugin! (5 stars) review · 2025-06-27T09:43:08+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

A great plugin!: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: A great plugin!

support quality content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

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question Grouping posts within Series? support · 2025-06-05T16:37:11+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Grouping posts within Series?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I am trying to find a replacement for IssueM, which allows us to create posts, then assign them to a topic and an issue.

bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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mixed Fiddly (3 stars) review · 2025-05-31T10:48:50+00:00 · medium severity · magazine

Fiddly: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Fiddly It works, but it’s hard to get the styling right.

missing feature support setup reliable content publishing operations Investigate Pain card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check magazine publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

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