Title: Next Page split post question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Next Page split post question

 *  [Andrei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thequietdream/)
 * (@thequietdream)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I wonder if anybody has been using the <!–nextpage–> tag to split posts in custom
   installations of WP.
 * I have tried using this tag that I found in the WP docs to create pagination 
   inside a post, but so far it does nothing whatsoever. Initially I thought it 
   might be the fault of the theme I was using, but switching to the default WP 
   theme didn’t help the situation. I have also tried to create a simple page for
   the single post where I could use the wp_link_pages function, but again to no
   result.
 * Could anyone offer some suggestions to what I need to do to use this tag (or 
   obtain pagination within a post) ?
 * Thanks!

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 *  Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/)
 * (@keesiemeijer)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163910)
 * Did you use the html-mode of the editor to insert the `<!--nextpage-->` tag?
 * Do you use [wp_link_pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_link_pages)
   within [The Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)?
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_Page-Links](http://codex.wordpress.org/Styling_Page-Links)
 *  Thread Starter [Andrei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thequietdream/)
 * (@thequietdream)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163913)
 * Hi keesiemeijer, thanks for the reply.
 * yes, I used the html editor to add the tag (otherwise it would’ve displayed the
   tag itself as text within the post). I even checked the database entry with phpMyAdmin
   to make sure the tag was correctly written and not encoded in some way.
 * I don’t use wp_link_pages within The Loop, there’s no need for that. wp_link_pages
   is meant (as the codex says) to be used for a single post. As such, I used it
   on the single.php page, which displays a single post (not the post while looping
   through the list of posts) so there’s nothing to loop through.
 *  Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/)
 * (@keesiemeijer)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163917)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_link_pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_link_pages)
 * > “This tag must be within The_Loop.”
 *  Thread Starter [Andrei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thequietdream/)
 * (@thequietdream)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163930)
 * Hmmm, in this case I suspect the tag is useless to me. I need to use it on the
   single.php template page, which stands outside the loop. Displaying page links
   for the same post inside The Loop doesn’t help me.
 * Have you used this function/tag before?
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163933)
 * Why not use <!–more–>
 *  Thread Starter [Andrei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thequietdream/)
 * (@thequietdream)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163936)
 * Hi kmessinger
 * I am using !–more– to make the list of posts (displaying a “teaser” of each post).
   But “more” only splits a post in 2, I need to split a single post in several 
   pages which should then be listed individually (page 1, 2, 3, etc).
 *  Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/)
 * (@keesiemeijer)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2163938)
 * > I need to use it on the single.php template page, which stands outside the 
   > loop.
 * What do you mean by this? You can loop through a list which contains only 1 Post.
   Maybe you need to create a loop for your single.php file?
 *  [austerus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/austerus/)
 * (@austerus)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-split-post-question/#post-2164187)
 * Hello again & thanks for the suggestion,
 * Took a while to go through the code but as it looks, the single.php file is itself
   inside a loop that goes around for one post. However, the function still produces
   nothing.

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