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1. Dadator
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I am new to WordPress but an experienced programmer.
   I am attempting to use posts rather than static pages for a series of 'how to' technical guides. The guides are long, maybe 10 pages each.
   The crux of the problem is how to achieve user friendly navigation within these long technical guides.

   I want to break the posts into a number of pages with navigation via a drop down using named titles, next and previous buttons.
   In the future it would be great to add:-
   - A table of contents would allow a user to jump back in and use the guide as a technical reference
   - Tabs which could hold comments, reviews & parts list (the guides pages would remain on the first tab)

   "Multi page Toolkit" will break a post into multiple pages but the "Page Title" feature does not work for me. Also some have remarked that the Plugin is poorly designed.

   How would I go about breaking the article into multiple pages with drop down sub-post-page title navigation, next & previous?

   As a secondary question, it seems to me that I could easily break the guides down using static top level and child pages.
   It would then be relatively easy to construct a navigation drop down from a subpage query.
   Please help me tune into the 'use a post' way of thinking, if applicable!

2. YouON
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Using custom post type with hierarchical yes?

3. Dadator
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I do not understand the question.
   The posts will be catagorised.
   I could create a custom post type and a template.
   How does that help section a post?

   I could split a large post into many smaller posts but that does not seem right as the 'how to' is one piece. Also may make the job of rating the how too harder.

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