Multiple Page WordPress Posts
There may be occasions when you want to split a WordPress post or page into multiple pages. This can be useful and reduce load times if it is a particularly long article or has a lot of images embedded in it. This is easy to do using WordPress.
WordPress has had this little known ability built it for some time now. Its a real easy way to split your posts or pages into as many pages as you want. The numbering of pages called “Pagination” is not an option available from either the default Visual or HTML WordPress editors. This option is not to be confused with the More tag that is used to show usually the first part of a post on the main blog page and then the whole post in its own page. The More tag is available from the post editor toolbar.
To split the page into multiple pages you first must be using the HTML or Code editor. Then just use the following code wherever you want to split the page or post:
So a multiple page post would look something like this:
Sorry due to some conflicting plugin settings I can’t show the code that you can copy and so posted the “Nextpage” code as an image. I usually don’t post anything long enough to use this option but I have had some people ask me about it. There may be plugins available to make use of this WordPress option but I see no need to add another plugin to just add this small bit of code to a page or post.
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On some wp blogs I used “paging plugin” http://blog.portal.kharkov.ua/2008/01/24/paging-plugin-vozvrashhaetsya/
This plug-in automatically breaks long posts into pages on paragraph border.
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Great tip. I had no idea that you could split posts into multiple pages. I see how it could improve page load times, and faster page load times also lead to more SEO credit.
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I’ve been doing this for a while now, but I’ve only recently realised that the additional pages aren’t displayed to feedreaders, and they don’t even know they are there – WP need to fix this
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This is great. It means I can, keep all post content above the fold with this simple insertion…I’ll see what the results look like in the reader where I allow “full” feed.
Presently I am monetizing my sidebars so in fact I may want people to read below the fold however this is a great tool.
Thanks. I’ll use it and if I want people to read below the fold, for the monetization of the sidebar below the fold then I’ll just display two or three posts at a time on the front page. This is a very nice tool.
I’m going to implement and post about int now. (now means 1-2 hours, if I”m not interrupted, of course)
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Awesome, cheers.
I always thought WP did this automatically, but I must be getting confused
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Greta post, I didn’t realise you could do this with WordPress.
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Nice. I dont know if I can split pages in Wordpress. I used my blog for photoshop tutorial and each page has lots of pictures in it. I’m sure this will make the page loads faster.
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I never tought at that, i got a plugin that does that
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Wow great, I was not aware that we can split the pages in WordPress. This will make our work to perform on a faster speed and accurately. Thanks
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Just like that
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Ohh my god why didn’t I find this before -_-
I thought it would do it by it self just by finding more than once on a post…
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Need help – my nextpage code is ending page 1… but I am not getting the links/pages to show up for the rest of my article.
Any ideas on why the links to the rest of the article are missing?
Thanks,
Dave
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Good advice to all…now i came to know that we could split pages in word press. great idea posted and this will help a lot of people here.
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Nice one! Really helpful post, not a lot of bloggers, especially the beginners, know that you could actually have multiple page posts. This would be really useful. Thanks for the tip!
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Great post and just what I was looking for!
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Very nice! Now I can just have an opener that won’t take too much clutter out of the rest of my posts if that specific post is long. Thanks!
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Thats a fairly neat idea if you have long article and you dont want a 4 foot page to display the entire thing. We often write short articles about Sarongs but sometime we write about travel or cruises or cool hidden beaches while on vacation..etc. I guess anything over 1000 words would be perferct for this. =)
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This is a useful tip. Unlike the tag, the pagination tag isn’t widely known yet (or is it just me?). I’ve been using Wordpress for years but never knew about it.
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I love wordpress, very informative and helpful post. Thanks keep it up good work.
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I tried this with no results, any idea why it won’t work please? BTW thanks for this info, hopefully you will know why this doesnt work for me
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Jeff Replied:
September 10th, 2009 at 7:43 am
No idea why it doesn’t work for you. It might be theme related. Try switching to another theme. If it is theme related, sorry wouldn’t know how to fix the theme.
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This is simply Great! This is indeed a very helpful post. I didn’t know that its possible to split posts into multiple pages! This can save time. Thank you!
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I didn’t know this was possible until now and it looks easy to do. Thanks for sharing
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Very nice! Now I can just have an opener that won’t take too much clutter out of the rest of my posts if that specific post is long. Thanks!
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I had trouble with this on one of my Wordpress sites. I’d always have these monster posts that went on forever…now I can change that so thanks very muchly.
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I was looking for this! Thanks for the help! I got it to work no problems.
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This is very useful information, especially for web designers. Thanks!
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Hey this is really cool means now we can have more detailed posts.
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