i never found the button to make pages for posts!
i had to enter the code manually.
wordpress cannot eliminate pagination of posts! it’s part of blogging.
do tell me if you have the pagination button in your wordpress installation.
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illys
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I believe I had to get ahold of a plugin even back in 2.2 for it, but I remember there being a button beside ‘…More’ for splitting up the post into a new page. Even if there wasn’t (and I can always do a test-install of that old version n a fresh directory or ibay, ) keeping pagination out of the core features would be as bad an idea as adding in tags was a very, <i>very good idea</i>.
I think it was a feature to the post-making toolbar back in 2005-2006, so rather many versions back, but I think I can quite understand if they are looking to eliminate confusion between ‘Newer posts’ and ‘older posts’ in the navigation between blog entries. I think hi is mostly a templating and wording issue though, and should not be a valid reason to shy away from the feature/having pagination as a core feature.
Of course the wordpress team has known what they are doing since the very beginning, since <!–newpage–> is something I can easily remember using, since y stories hit the 500kb mark when getting loaded all at once.
Ok, it’s version 1.5 that has a plugin, an old one, called [url=”http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/05/23/wppaginate/”%5DwpPaginate%5B/url%5D, so that should fit with my time using it – 2004-2005.
But a plugin for 2.5/2.6 I haven’t found… Ah, let’s try the plugin database. post again in a bit.
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illys
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Ok, there is a support page on paginating posts:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/141927
But to use pagination, your blog template needs to have the wp_link_pages() loop in it, as written here:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/12/paginating-or-split-wordpress-post-or-page-with-nextpage-in-wordpress-not-working/
I believe the default wordpress themes have this function (wp_link_pages) per default, but of course it can be done by hand.
This plugin looks to be ideal, as it adds in the tinyMCE (post editor) buttons:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multi-page-toolkit/
And while pagination links can be nicely stylized by hand and with css, there are plugins to do it for you.
Currently I need to re-do all this myself in my posts, so.. I can’t get back to you on [i]which[/i] plugins.
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illys
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And by the way, it’s ‘<!–nextpage–>’, not ‘<!–newpage–>’.
yeap this is one button which i miss on the wordpress toolbar. it should be on the html toolbar along with more. it is even missing from the advanced toolbar in visual mode!