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Dev.to Writing: Making a Series!

Nathan Kallman on July 27, 2020

In response to the cry for help: A cry for help Sibusiso Dlamini ・ Jul 26 '20 #help ...
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James Batista

just the exact information I needed. Thank you

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Ishaq Nasir

Awesome, Just beginning mine

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Eric Dong

This is useful, thanks for sharing! It wasn't obvious when unpublished articles didn't appear in the series list!

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Farheen Shaikh

Starting mine.

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Ashley D

Super helpful steps! Thank you. :)

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Eduardo Alvarez

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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Nathan Kallman

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...

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Eduardo Alvarez

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.

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Denyse

thank youu

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Nathan Kallman

You're welcome!

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Adams Adebayo

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?

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Nathan Kallman

You'll have to add it on your own if you want any sort of My Series: Particular Article style titles.

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Wj

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.

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One Past Last Jedi

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?

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Nathan Kallman

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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Abhinav Dubey

Hey, Can we have multiple authors for a blog series?

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Sam Watkins

I tried with our organization (me and my two kids, we're writing about game dev). Unfortunately it doesn't work.

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Nathan Kallman

I've never tried; it might be possible if they are both writing for the same organization?

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Abhinav Dubey

Great, thanks for the information

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Sibusiso Dlamini

Thank you sooo much! Life saver 💯

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Hey, Bro (Nathan) can you share your markdown for this series?

series

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Nathan Kallman

Are you asking how to make that Dev.to Writing (8 Part Series) section in your screenshot? Or just a dump of each of these articles' original markdown?

There's no markdown to creating that display, just a matter of a setting in Post Options or addition to the front-matter of series: My Series Name and publishing at least two articles under the series and dev.to will display that section.

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

okay

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Alexandru Muntean

Thanks a lot! :)

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Nathan Kallman

Thanks for reading! (And I hopefully more writing ;)!)

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chaitdwivedi

Great article! Very helpful.

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andysaktia

Easy to understand! Thank you.

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Dominik Gorczyca

If only there was an option to place the series window only after your post or only before or even not at all.

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Nathan Kallman

Personally I'd like to see only the earlier posts in the before content window and only subsequent posts in the after content window... somehow that just makes more sense to me.

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Kashif Soofi

Can we add a single article in multiple series?