WordPress Posts, Pages and pagination

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Chewing on WordPress.

While rummaging through the WordPress theme code I stumbled upon this vague function call ‘link_pages()‘. Not knowing what is was or did, I looked it up in the documentation. And it seems that WordPress can paginate (lengthy) posts out-of-the-box. Great! But while the difference between a post and a page can be confusing for WordPress starters, adding pagination to the equation may be too much. 🙂

That’s why it probably is somewhat hidden. (Or should I have read the manual?) Nonetheless, for people prone to write elaborate posts it could come in handy. All you need to do is add the following magic code in your post, , and your off. Notice the pages links below.

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15 responses to “WordPress Posts, Pages and pagination”

September 7, 2006

quasi.dot » Blog Archive » Read the rest of this article…

[…] Ho scoperto quasi per caso che WordPress supporta “out of the box” la possibilitÃ di paginare un post piuttosto lungo. Non che sia una necessita’ impellente (a meno di non voler provare a raddoppiare il numero di page view quasi per incanto…) ma e’ divertente. Il trucco consiste nell’inserire la parola magica <!–more–> nel punto in cui si vuole l’interruzione del testo. Se funziona lo si vede qua. Il suggerimento mi e’ arrivato via Think Lemon, anche se con riferimento al quicktag <!–nextpage–>. […]
September 25, 2006

Paginar un post en Wordpress » paranovatos.com

[…] Buscando una manera de paginar en WordPress porque en ocasiones me parece mas practico que la paginacion se presente 1 2 3 4 .. en vez de “pagina anterior – pagina siguiente”, me encontre este post WordPress Posts, Pages and pagination entiendase Post WordPress, paginas y paginacion, el cual daba un tip muy simple: si quieres paginar tu post (articulo), simplemente donde quieras paginar inserta la etiqueta […]
April 28, 2007

Search Engine Optimization for Wordpress Blogs

WordPress Pagination Plugin For SEO…

How well are your older posts being crawled by search engines?
If your blog contains hundreds or thousands of posts you could be in DEEP trouble.
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June 8, 2007

de ce?

sorry to re-open an year old post but next-page tag works even in the home page, all you have to do is to put in the index.php or home.php the code:

<?php link_pages(); ?>

PS: i was searching something about wordpress pagination and i found your post 🙂
July 13, 2007

Bryce

Wow, so simple. Thanks for this. No plugin needed then for this.

Thanks for the research
August 4, 2007

Silveira Neto

I reallly hate this function.
February 15, 2008

mImran

This for html formats meaning posts ending with html creates pages like …html/1 …html/2 not that good.
March 5, 2008

ex

Not good? That’s perfect! Thx for info!
May 14, 2008

yMladenov

Thanks a lot!
I’m writing just the lengthy articles you mentioned. BTW, I landed on this page from the “wordpress pagination” phrase on Google. Good seo 😛
October 25, 2008

lee

I have been scouring the web for this answer and all I got was pages of coding. Yours was sooo simple. Thank you!!!!!!!!!
July 20, 2009

Skint & Demoralised

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August 10, 2009

Lampdocs

I’ve got a problem: sometimes my posts are splitted, but the pagination menu is not shown. I am using , and pages really exist, but “1 2 3 ” is not shown. What could be the problem?
March 5, 2010

Nga

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vim to very …
April 16, 2010

Joanna Benz

This is the clearest explanation I have seen for the nextpage command. Thank you for posting it.

For beginners who are unsure about whether to set up their site using posts or pages, this article might be helpful:

http://unlimited-bandwidth-hosting.com/hosting-articles/setting-up-a-site/posts-versus-pages
April 5, 2011

Wrecked Reviews

Awesome, this worked wonders! Thanks for posting this!