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[Lawrence]

default output is more than fine, as it’s not user facing. I don’t mind how it looks currently – it’s functional 🙂

[Lawrence]

Hi Igor,

Just watched the demo video – it’s absolutely brilliant. Exactly what I was looking for, thank you! Agree, I will actually split the playlists down into ‘seasons’, so they won’t get so heavy all the time, but I wanted to make sure that it was capable of handling hundreds of posts.

So now that the plugin is done, how shall we proceed with delivery and payment? You would be better emailing me directly on lawrence@tabletoptactics.tv from here I think?

[Lawrence]

Ok sure, no problem – let me know how the test goes!

[Lawrence]

Also, I have discovered another potential problem. In the search field when adding another post, it searches by alphabetical order like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytfn4sbobu8vfof/Screen%20Shot%202019-06-16%20at%2011.24.35%20am.png?dl=0

However, the problem with my particular posts is that many of them end up being the same title. For example, I might have 10 posts all named ‘Battle Report: Dark Eldar vs Ultramarines’

When using this search field, I have no way to determine which of the posts I’m actually adding. This becomes quite time intensive… What would be really awesome is if the search field automatically defaulted to the latest post to oldest. So you could just scroll down and easily find the post you just published and then add it to the playlist?

Hope that makes sense! Let me know 😃

[Lawrence]

Hi Igor,

Ok great! That makes sense. I agree that re-ordering the videos over paginated pages wouldn’t work. Also as you say, honestly, I won’t really need to re-order the videos after import as I will always be sorting it from the latest video to the oldest in a blog style.

Here, why don’t you try importing my YouTube playlist of ‘Battle Reports’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x7No3i-dSQ&list=PLw8pVOyn9GVZ20d4OViD54o-i2377BgGq

There’s only 133 here, where on my website I have around 340, but should be a good test! Let me know how it goes 🙂

[Lawrence]

Just to clarify Igor, this is the series admin page I mean:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ho4sracz0jqm5c3/Screen%20Shot%202019-06-15%20at%2011.23.23%20pm.png?dl=0

Will the page be able to sustain over 300 posts on it in that playlist format? I’m guessing that a pagination might need to be built in?

Let me know!

[Lawrence]

Yes fantastic, that ordering of Series options is perfect! I’ve just looked at the video and the functionality is perfect Igor! Thank you very much for your hard work. I’m looking forward to using it shortly.

There is only one potential issue I have considered… My largest category has around 300 posts. Once that is imported into a series using the plugin, when going to the series admin page to add another individual post when I release one, or re-arrange those posts in the playlist, the page might have a problem displaying all of those posts? As there isn’t any pagination built into the admin page, I wonder, can it handle 300 post fields on it?

Just a thought!

Let me know 🙂

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Lawrence.

[Lawrence]

Hi yes, that would work perfectly for me! I’m guessing once the bulk import is done, I can also just add the latest post to the series manually anyway!

Sounds great so far 😃

[Lawrence]

Hi! Yes that’s more than fine to choose the dates before importing 🙂 As more videos will be added to the categories regularly, I envision them just auto updating on the series Playlist.

So basically, categories will always be in order of newest post to oldest. And Series Playlist plugin will just add all the videos from the post Categories in the same order automatically whenever a new post is added to that category. 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.

Hope that makes sense! And yes, please go ahead and start work on it. Looking forward to the demo on monday 🙂

[Lawrence]

Hi yes, this would be exactly what I was looking for. Although I would also like a button to be able to toggle the playlist in order of date earliest to latest or latest to earliest after you’ve imported that category into the series. But yeah, pretty simple in essence I guess!

Look forward to hearing from you about making this happen 😃

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Lawrence.

[Lawrence]

Hi Igor and Andrea,

I’m sorry to re-open this topic but as it’s the same subject thread. I have now installed the Theme update you kindly created for me. I would now like to go ahead and look at you developing the custom plugin for the import of posts. How could we go about arranging this?

Best,

Lawrence

[Lawrence]

Hi Igor,

Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this for me. Understood on the custom plugin – I didn’t realise it would be quite so complicated in that regard. For now, I will make use of your child theme update instead.

Thanks so much 🙂

[Lawrence]

Hi Igor!

Thanks for getting back to me. Actually the Category pages I have aren’t ‘Series’ Play List pages, but rather ‘Blog Grid Archives’.

I still require pagination for a Series Page plus a way to bulk import posts (like selecting an entire post category) for a Series rather than selecting a post to add to the playlist one by one using the drop down.

Can you advice on this?

[Lawrence]

Thanks Andrea! Look forward to hearing what you guys come up with.

Best,

Lawrence