In response to the cry for help:
Here's everything you need to know about series on Dev.to!
Making a series
If you remember from the previous article, there's two editors here on DEV.
For the Basic markdown editor, simply add series: My Series Name to the front matter (aka the stuff between the dashes --- at the top).
For the Rich + markdown editor, click the Post options button at the bottom of the editor (the little circle with a hexagon around it).
Then, enter a new value in the "Series" input box to create a new series, or click one of your already ongoing series.
And you've made a series!
Actually making a series
If you preview or publish your first series post, you may notice something.
Nothing happened.
This is because Dev.to will only include that nice series list at the top and bottom of the article (as you can see on this one) once there are at least two published posts in the series. (This also applies to new unpublished posts in the series; in preview they will not appear in the list and only appear once they are published).
It makes sense, but probably is not intuitive the first time you try to make a series.
So to actually make a series, you will need to actually write a series (of posts :) ).
And you may return to old, already published posts and edit them to add them to a series. So if you've written a "standalone" article; then realized you have a great follow up; just add them both to the same series and viola! Instant series!
That's it. I hope this helped answer your question @CoolCodekid.
If you have your own question, just ask in a comment. I read all of them and would love to add another post in this series that will actually help other writers in this awesome community!
Top comments (30)
just the exact information I needed. Thank you
Awesome, Just beginning mine
This is useful, thanks for sharing! It wasn't obvious when unpublished articles didn't appear in the series list!
Starting mine.
Super helpful steps! Thank you. :)
Hi nice articles about how to make articles.
Is there a way to sort articles inside a Series. It turns out that I need to add a few articles in the middle of the series but because they are newer they are automatically pushed to the bottom of the series list.
Any tip on how to arrange them?
Otherwise I will need to back up everything, copy and paste the articles again, but if in the future I need to add another article in the middle, the process become tiresome.
Thanks in advance.
I don't think there's currently a way to custom order a series unfortunately. Poking around on the forem repo (what powers DEV) the ordering seems to be hardcoded to the publish/cross-post date: github.com/forem/forem/blob/9e439f...
Thank you so much for the quick answer.
Yeah I was afraid that is hardcoded to the publishing date. I may need to remove the series table entirely and rely on 1 article acting as a table of content.
thank youu
You're welcome!
Great article, really helpful. Quick question though, will the name of the series be added to the front of the title of each article? or I'll have to add it if i want to?
You'll have to add it on your own if you want any sort of
My Series: Particular Articlestyle titles.How to use DEV? Well, find you can find your answer on DEV! Anyways, thanks so much for posting this post as I am doing at least five series by the end of the year.
Thank you first, but I am writing the following series
dev.to/one_past_last_jedi/jetpack-...
and it put my series in not my desired order ?!
can I change the order of the series? or there any solution?
Unfortunately custom ordering of series' posts doesn't seem to be supported currently. You could certainly go suggest this functionality as you aren't the first to want it:
Hi nice articles about how to make articles.
Is there a way to sort articles inside a Series. It turns out that I need to add a few articles in the middle of the series but because they are newer they are automatically pushed to the bottom of the series list.
Any tip on how to arrange them?
Otherwise I will need to back up everything, copy and paste the articles again, but if in the future I need to add another article in the middle, the process become tiresome.
Thanks in advance.
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