Multi-Page Posts and Numbering/Sequencing Continuation

  • Resolved Jamie

    (@tgjamie45)


    2 weeks, 3 days ago

    Hi,
    So I thought to put this in a separate request. I have noticed that there is per page no ability to choose the numbering sequencing. So for example:
    – I have a Book/post with child posts under it.
    – I have footnotes that carry on through each chapter, but each chapter is in a new post.
    – eg. child chapter 1 has footnotes 1 – 30. child chapter 2 should have 31 – 60.
    – But in that second page, how to start it with number 31? Or maybe any other sequencing?
    It don’t see that I should use the “custom” as that is more for strange things like * or # or whatever.

    Would be great to have this capability.
    Thanks,
    Jamie

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  • Plugin Author Golemiq

    (@awesomefootnotes)

    1 week, 2 days ago

    For this, the plugin supports “Paginated Posts” — please check that section in the plugin’s README page.

    The idea is that, on any post, you can change the starting footnote number by using:

    <!--startnum=5-->

    In this example, 5 is the number you want the footnotes in that particular post to start from.

    Check whether this approach will work for your use case.

    One thing to keep in mind is that this is actually an HTML comment. This means you’ll need to switch your editor (Classic Editor or Gutenberg) to Code Editor mode and enter it as plain HTML. After that, you can switch back to the visual editor if you like — the editor should preserve the comment in the post content.

    Thread Starter Jamie

    (@tgjamie45)

    1 week, 1 day ago

    ok, ok, now I see how this works. Thanks for the support request on this. In fact, this does work for my purposes. So for anybody who reads this post I will put some info.
    Case:
    – Project isn’t using pagination but on posts, there are sub-posts. Much like sub-pages etc (think book chapters or something like that).
    – Each Sub-page follows the previous with footnotes. i.e. ch. 1 (fn 1 – 20). Then on sub-page two i.e. ch. 2 (fn 21 – 35).
    So inserting a tag in the custom HTML of <!–startnum=21–> has it start on number 21.

    Works well, thanks. Jamie

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