Hello lorielb,

I’ve just answered you via private mail.
As I stated in the email, I think that the pagination issue is easier to include in the theme than the category post bulk importer for series.

I’ll go discuss with our developers and I’ll keep you posted on this.

Andrea

Hello Lawrence, I’m Igor, developer of this theme.
I’ve been checking your request and your website, and I see your category page is actually displaying the pagination.

Did you modify the global theme/wordpress setting or edited the curtom file to change it, therefore found already a solution yourself, or do you still want some help to achieve anything?

Thanks and have a nice day!

Hi Lawrence, I’m Igor, My collegue let me know that I misunderstood your request, sorry.

I just finished to create a child theme for you where series have pagination.
You can download it here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqo9ryozg903naz/vlogger-child-pagination.zip?dl=0

Then via FTP replace your folder vlogger-child.

The 2 modified files are the function.php and single-vlogger_serie.php.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW:

1) in the file single-vlogger_serie.php you will see there is quite a lot of new code.
You don’t need to do much, but there are 2 options for you in the code.

You can change the amount of posts per page, and you can choose to show or hide the header of the page in the paginated archives > 1.

The instructions are in the file.

2) If you had customizations in your child theme’s functions.php, the only new line of code is line 10

remove_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');

so you can copy it to yur customized functions.php

3) Please be aware that the interactive cards can become heavy if you use them and you have tons of videos per card. To limit this, you have to edit the functions.php of the theme, and change line 1093

'posts_per_page' => -1,

to something more limited

'posts_per_page' => 8,

Otherwise this may totally crush your page loading.

For a stable change, you can copy entirely the function
vlogger_extract_serie_episodes that goes from line 1072 to 1148 into the functions.php of your child theme, so the change won’t be lost on updates.

ABOUT IMPORTING IN THE SERIES:
Actually there is no real limitation on the amount of vides you can have in a serie, as this field can reach 5 billion characters, meaning thousands of videos in a serie.

Anyway, the biggest issue is that series videos and categories are 2 completely different structures of data.
Series are really ment for a manual usage, and there is no real way to mutate a category into a serie.

It is possible to achieve it via custom programming, but it requires a custom plugin that uses a custom procedure to parse all the videos in a category and adds them as videos to a serie.
This means you can import videos into a category, and after importing, mutate the category into a serie.

Anyway, such type of plugin requires quite some coding, and we can’t provide this as theme support.

The custom child theme that I just made for you already costed about 3 hours of work, and can’t go any further on other coding.

If you want we can program this plugin as extra service, meaning we will need to make a quotation for the work. The cost can be something between 150 and 250$.

If you are interested, I can make a more precise calculation.

Looking forward for your feedback wish you a nice day!
Regards
Igor

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by themes2go.

You’re welcome!
If you have any other issues feel free to open another topic.

Best,
Andrea

Hi Lawrence and thanks for getting back to us.
The easiest way to make such a functionality, meeting costs and results, is to have a function that allows to bring-in all the posts within a category.

So, let’s say, an area of the admin where you choose an existing Serie, and an existing Category, and it automatically enqueues all of the posts within that category under the chosen Serie.

Once done, you have the ability to reorder the episodes, editing the serie.
The original order would simply be the original date of each post.

Could this be a valuable solution for you?

Regards

Hi, sorry for the long waiting, we are still in the middle of publishing a new theme and Themeforest is making me go crazy :/

About out plugin
“after you’ve imported that category into the serie” > MMM no, that’s very hard to do as the date is not stored in the serie, and would require a double query and much much more work.
You can, instead, choose it before importing, this is much more possible.
Also, what if a serie already has videos inside? Does this require to choose where to enqueue them? if before or after existing videos?

If for you is fine, I can start working on this tomorrow, so I can send you a demo by monday, together with a fixed price evaluation based on the effective working hours.

Thanks!

Hi, I’m already working to the list.

all the things from the first part are fine, and are options (you can choose to add posts before or after existing ones, and the order you want).

The second (Likewise if a post is removed for some reason from a category, the Series playlist should also remove it, as it should be dynamically reading the posts from the categories.)

The 2 things are NOT linked, this is impossible.
Categories will most likely become a secondary selector that you can also eliminate after importing, if you don’t need it anymore (for example).

The plugin works ONCE, when the posts are in a serie, they are statically associated to the serie, is totally impossible to do a “live merging” when you edit the categories.

So, you import them accorging to the options you can choose time by time, the videos are enqueued from a category into the serie based on the chosen order.
I can also add a Middle confirmation screen, so you can see the list of the titles before confirming the import, and I can also add a safety function to undo the import if you want.

But I can’t do a function linked to every post change that updates the category, this is tecnically a tank of a function that may basically also require a ton of CPU to run, and is not something you want in your site.

Please let me know if is still ok asap, as I’m already on the code side 😉

This is the software architecture so far

/**
*
* PART A: SETTINGS FORM
* A.0 Create admin screen
* A.1 Dropdown categories
* A.2 Dropdown serie select
* A.3 Dropdown order
* A.4 Dropdown to append videos before or after existing ones
* A.5 Button to import
*
* PART B: EXTRACT POSTS AND MERGE
* B.1 Extract posts
* B.2 Extract the previous meta field from selected serie
* B.3 Unserialise the previous meta fieldd in array
* B.4 Merge with new fields
* B.5 Display the new merged list
* B.6 Save the new meta field in a temporary post meta linked with selected Serie
* B.7 Display confirmation button (form with post id and confirmation nonce)
*
* PART C: CONFIRM IMPORT
* C.1 Verify submitted post ID and nonce
* C.2 Extract the temporary meta field with new merged array
* C.3 Extract the old meta field with old existing videos
* C.4 Swap the 2 serialized meta fields
* C.6 Link to view and edit the serie
*
*/

Hi, please download this video where I show you the plugin functionslity ( if you wantch it from dropbox video and audio are horrible).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/504es8pldw73nsm/vlogger%20converter%20test.mov?dl=0

Please let me kno if is missing any funcitonality, then , I’ll proceed with some design to make the look nicer and easier, and display the posts lists in a better way.

Also I still need to to a bit more testing for edge cases.

Looking forward for your feedback

thanks and have a nice day

“When using this search field, I have no way to determine which of the posts I’m actually adding. ”

The solution is to use an advanced search plugin.
There are many with tons of customizations and additional fields.
Anyway, I don’t see the way this interacts with the plugin we are discussing here, translating categories is a functionality, searching contents is a completely different thing 🙂

I’m now trying to import your videos and will get back in minutes.

Hi, I just did and extensive test.
I imported your playlist, then imported also another one of 240+ videos, then mixed them in a single serie, then edited.

Again please download the video, as DB makes a low res preview making my voice sound even uglier

https://www.dropbox.com/s/078mc7cibe8zhx4/vlogger%20converter%20test2.mov?dl=0

Hope you like it 😉

PS. is for you ok or you want a fancier backend interface about the importing screens?
I didn’t add any design actually, is just pure default output…