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Organize Series and WordPress 2.6

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I noticed that Wordpress 2.6 broke one of my favourite plugins - Organize Series. I don’t use it on Is There Food, but it’s handy at Eurocritics. Thanks to the post revision functionality in 2.6, Organize Series goes a bit bonkers (it doesn’t know any better, bless it) and you end up with “part 8 of a 3 part series” after a few revisions.

But I’m happy to report I found a satisfactory work around: turn off those pesky post revisions. They’re great in the right environment, but for single user blogs they might not a great deal of help. And for now, I’d rather have working series functionality on Eurocritics than post revisions.

First off, follow the mighty Lester Chan’s advice to turn off post revisions. You can also use the SQL he’s posted to delete revisions from your database (although you might want to keep them around for the next part).

Then, fix the damage that’s been done. You’ll need to check through the wp_postmeta table and get rid of any references to posts with ids that relate to revisions. Then, set the series_part value for each of your existing posts to be the correct value.

Once you’ve done that, harmony and equilibrium should be restored.

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