Sorry if these seems like a rant but anyway. There comes a time when I get an idea for a blog and find that it is a bit too long and afraid that people would leave it without having read the entire piece. So I think to break my content into cohesive chunks that would flow as a sort of series. But theres a problem I don't know why or how but I can't seem to get a series to work ๐
I have seen these series posts before and I thought I should be able to create one but the dev documentation didn't do me much justice๐. Hence the reason for this blog. I'm asking for help. If you know how to make a Dev series post would you be so kind as to assist myself and everyone else who reads this post by leaving a link in the comments or better yet. Write a tutorial on how to do it because the only ones I can find didnt really help my cause.
And just to clarify I am aware that you need to use the jekyll font matter dev editor and place a :series: tag in the front matter. I have read the docs. I couldn't get it to work. Also the last time I checked there are no liquid tags for a series which is why I am assuming that you need to use the jekyll font matter (according to dev docs).
If you've received my distress signal thank you for actually reading it๐.
Top comments (8)
A note that after adding the article to the series, it won't appear with that nice list of series articles you may have seen until there's at least 2 published articles in the same series.
I could write up a mini-tutorial on this and post tomorrow since I've made two series on dev.to if that would help people
Thank you. I'll give the series another shot with 2 posts this time. That mini tutorial would be a great help as well
As promised, mini tutorial:
Dev.to Writing: Making a Series!
Nathan Kallman ใป Jul 27 ใป 2 min read
You can read the following article, I hope it helps.
A Beginners guide to the DEV editor
Habdul Hazeez ใป Dec 14 '19 ใป 11 min read
cc: @kallmanation.
Have you tried addingthe series: [series name] to the front-matter par of your post?
Ref: dev.to/p/editor_guide
I've tried that but it didn't seem to change anything when I previewed,
It won't appear in preview (unfortunately).. as dev.to currently only includes published posts in the series list.
Also the series list only displays if there are at least 2 published posts in the series.
It is very unclear to me what problem you are trying to solve here. :)