Title: Manually inserting page numbers
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Manually inserting page numbers

 *  [Nerin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerin/)
 * (@nerin)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-inserting-page-numbers/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve started looking at pagination for longer posts.
    The problem I have is that
   I want my Page numbers to appear specifically at the end of the text, where the
   page is being divided.
 * I’ve had a bit of a search and can’t find a method to do this, instead getting
   articles on just pagination and dividing.
 * Here is an example of a long post on the site [http://www.krank.ie/category/society/tom-cruise-the-irish-scientology-protests/](http://www.krank.ie/category/society/tom-cruise-the-irish-scientology-protests/)
   
   As you can see, the page numbers appear below the author bio and the sharing 
   buttons. Instead I want them to appear above the author bio box.
 * I would appreciate any help

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 *  [Christine Rondeau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crondeau/)
 * (@crondeau)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-inserting-page-numbers/#post-3755996)
 * How are you creating the pagination? Are you using the nextpage links?
 * `<!--nextpage-->`
 * This next page tag is similar to the more tag, but doesn’t appear by default 
   in the wysiwyg editor.
 * Here’s an example of a post where I used this tag – [http://www.wpyogi.com/2012/12/learning-child-theming-with-twenty-twelve/](http://www.wpyogi.com/2012/12/learning-child-theming-with-twenty-twelve/)
 *  Thread Starter [Nerin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerin/)
 * (@nerin)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-inserting-page-numbers/#post-3756099)
 * <!–nextpage–> Is the tag I am using, yes.
 * The issue is with placement of the page 1,2,3 etc buttons.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-inserting-page-numbers/#post-3756105)
 * general info:
    plugins often dump their output at the end of the post content(
   via a filter acting on `'the_content'`) while the `wp_link_pages()` function 
   is usually inserted after `the_content()`
 * you will need to create a similar filter (with higher priority) for `'the_content'`
   to insert the pages-links _before _the author info etc;
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Filters)
 * for specifics, please contact your theme’s developer for support;
 * this forum does not support commercial themes; [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-inserting-page-numbers/#post-3756105)
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