Title: Styling multiple-page posts Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Styling multiple-page posts * Resolved [pj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psinco/) * (@psinco) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/) * In single posts that I divided into multiple pages using , I would like to style the extra pages differently. I probably need to use a conditional tag in the Loop, but I can’t figure out how WordPress distinguishes the remaining pages in a multi-page post from the opening post page. In other words, I don’t know how WordPress knows it’s on Page 3 of a long post rather than on Page 1. I want Page 2, Page 3, etc., to look slightly different than Page 1. * Does anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/) * (@stvwlf) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215297) * One way to do this would be to wrap the contents of page2 in a div and assign a class of page2. Then you can assign CSS styling in your stylesheet to override the default styling of page2, page3, etc. You’d assign those classes on the editor’s HTML tab. * ```

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``` * stylesheet: * ``` #content .page2 p { color: #123456; margin-top: 20px; } #content .page3 p { color: #654321; margin-top: 10px; } ``` * [robbono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robbono/) * (@robbono) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215377) * I have the same question. There is a bug in WordPress that causes the_content not to work properly in sidebars after pagination (i.e., the_content() works in sidebars on page 1 of a paginated post, but not on subsequent pages 2, 3, 4, 5, etc). * Because of this, I want to disable a sidebar block based on whether or not it’s the first page of a paginated post. Therefore, the aforementioned solution (for styling purposes) will not work for me. * WordPress has some way of knowing what page it is – some kind of property. What is this property, and how can I create a conditional statement using it? * Thanks! * [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/) * (@stvwlf) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215389) * [@robbono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robbono/): When on the 1st page of paginated post, this variable will not exist: `$wp_query->query_vars['page']` * When on the second page its value will be “2”. * you can test for 1st page with `if ( isset($wp_query->query_vars['page'] ))` if it returns false you are on the 1st page. * [robbono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robbono/) * (@robbono) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215396) * Great! At least if I can’t fix the sidebar the_content() bug, I can disable the block in question on the 2nd and later posts. Thanks again! * [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/) * (@stvwlf) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215401) * I don’t know what you are after, but I just displayed post content that is displayed in the main post area, in the sidebar, on all pages of a paginated post with ` echo $post->post_content` * However it’s the full content, not paged. It would have to be run through some filters to page it. * If you are trying to display posts in the sidebar, you are better off using a custom WP query – see [http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/](http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/) * Thread Starter [pj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psinco/) * (@psinco) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215474) * > you can test for 1st page with > if ( isset($wp_query->query_vars[‘page’] )) > if it returns false you are on the 1st page. * This works beautifully. Thank you for the great suggestions. * [robbono](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robbono/) * (@robbono) * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215595) * [@stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/) – Yep, I could use $post- >post_content, but what I’m trying to display is a poll using WP-Polls – so the content only displays as [poll-id: 8], which triggers WP-Polls to display the poll. It only works when it’s run through the_content(), not when echoed as a variable. My knowledge of filters doesn’t go far enough for me to figure out how to get it to trigger WP-Polls plugin, so I’m just going to have to hide the block until the sidebar issue is fixed. * BTW, I’m using a custom WP-Query, but there’s a reported bug with WordPress not clearing out globals on the 2nd page (even when using wp_reset_query() ), so no matter what I do, the_content() always displays the wrong content – but that’s a topic for another post. * Thanks again for the conditional advice! I’ll be using that for now! * [Michael Soriano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mks6804/) * (@mks6804) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215663) * > you can test for 1st page with > if ( isset($wp_query->query_vars[‘page’] )) > if it returns false you are on the 1st page. * so there is no function to determine if a post is on the paginated page. not like is_paged(); * [hkalant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harryplusk/) * (@harryplusk) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-multiple-page-posts/#post-1215716) * Hello, Can I change the way numbers are showing up in multi-page posts in Twenty Ten theme? I can’t find the piece of CSS code that is responsible for that. ( I would like to remove the grey background and use some border-radius for the corners.) thnx. 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