Organize Posts into Series

Pro. This feature requires WB Member Blog Pro. The free plugin must be installed and active first. See the Pro index for every Pro module.

Post Series help members group related posts together, creating multi-part tutorials, guides, or story sequences with automatic navigation between parts.

What You’ll Learn

How to create and manage post series Setting up series navigation Using table of contents Tracking reader progress

Enable Post Series

Go to Member Blog → Features & Modules Toggle Post Series to On Click Save Changes New Series tab appears

Series Features

FeatureDescriptionSeries CreationGroup related posts togetherNavigationPrevious/Next buttons between series postsTable of ContentsAuto-generated list of all posts in seriesProgress TrackingShow readers their completion percentageSeries Landing PageArchive page for each series

Configure Series Settings

SettingOptionsDescriptionNavigation StyleButtons, Links, CardsHow prev/next looksTOC PositionBefore, After, BothWhere TOC appearsEnable ProgressYes/NoTrack reader progressSeries URL SlugCustom textURL structure (default: “series”)

Creating a Series

For Members

Create a new post (or edit existing) Find the Series section in the post form Click Add to Series Either:

Select an existing series Or create a new series (enter name)

Set position in series (Part 1, 2, 3…) Save the post

Series Options in Post Form

OptionDescriptionSelect SeriesDropdown of user’s existing seriesCreate NewEnter name for new seriesPositionOrder in series (auto-increments if blank)Remove from SeriesUnlink post from series

Series Navigation

Navigation automatically appears at the end of each post in a series:

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

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Part 3 of 5 in “Complete WordPress Guide” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Navigation Styles

StyleAppearanceButtonsStyled buttons with arrowsLinksSimple text linksCardsRich cards with thumbnails

Table of Contents

Auto-generated list of all posts in the series:

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

PositionWhere It AppearsBefore ContentAt the top of the postAfter ContentAt the bottom, before commentsBothTop and bottomSidebarVia shortcode in sidebar widget

Progress Tracking

Track reader progress across series posts:

How It Works

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

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

Progress is stored in user meta for logged-in users, or browser cookies for guests (if enabled).

Series Landing Page

Each series gets its own archive page:

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

The 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

Managing Series

Reordering Posts

Go to series settings Drag posts to reorder Or manually set position numbers Save changes

Editing Series

Go to Member Blog → Series Find the series Click Edit Update name, description, or settings Save

Deleting a Series

Find the series Click Delete Choose what happens to posts:

Keep posts (just unlink from series) Delete posts too

Shortcodes

Series Navigation

[bp-member-blog-series-nav]

Table of Contents

[bp-member-blog-series-toc]

Series Archive

[bp-member-blog-series-list user_id=“current” count=“10” show_count=“yes”]

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

SEO Benefits

BenefitHowInternal linkingAutomatic links between related postsTopic authorityComprehensive coverage signals expertiseUser engagementReaders consume more contentReduced bounceNavigation keeps readers on site

Troubleshooting

IssueSolutionNavigation not showingCheck if post is in a seriesWrong post orderEdit positions in series settingsProgress not trackingVerify progress tracking is enabledSeries page 404Flush permalinks (Settings → Permalinks → Save)