Paginating or Split WordPress Post or Page with NextPage in WordPress Not Working

It’s possible to using <–nextpage–> WordPress Quicktags to paginate a blog post in WordPress post or page so that an article can be split into two or more multiple pages. This function allows long article to be cut into pieces and presented in several short pages instead of one single page. The <–nextpage–> Quicktags works on both WordPoress post and page.

However, if after inserting the <–nextpage–> tag into the blog post or page using the editor, and the function doesn’t work to paginate the post or page entry, and the article is still in one page or the rest of the article has been cut off and hidden, but there is no navigation links to allow readers and visitors to click in order to browse next or previous page, the problem probably caused by the WordPress template that are actively in used do not have the necessary template tag.

wp_link_pages() is the template tag that are needed to be include in the WordPress template files in order to show the paginated page links. wp_link_pages() (and also link_pages() which has been deprecated) will display page-links for the cutoff point at each <!–nextpage–> Quicktag that can be used one or more times. Normally, wp_link_pages() is added at the end of the post or page loop.

For more information on wp_link_pages(), visit WordPress documentation.

16 Responses to “Paginating or Split WordPress Post or Page with NextPage in WordPress Not Working”

  1. carlordena
    July 6th, 2009 17:33
    16

    I tried and it does work
    try it these way
    edit your page
    make it sure it is in html editor not in Visual
    type in:

    at the bottom of the page
    and click “update page”
    Lastly click on “View page”

    you have to be precise in executing word and saving page.

    I hope it works.

  2. Ai~
    May 8th, 2009 14:20
    15

    Thanks so much for this — I was looking for a tutorial on this exact issue, and thank you for a short and sweet article. :) God bless!

  3. barabashko
    January 28th, 2009 11:39
    14

    Is there any way to add nextpage tag to Writer?
    Maybe somekind of addon? tag is working on my ussr photo site, but i cant see it in my writer :(

  4. Alfie
    January 24th, 2009 11:39
    13

    Would you know how to make the pages permalink to be like this;

    http://www.example.com/post1-2.htm
    instead of;

    http://www.example.com/post1.htm/2/

  5. eligio
    August 26th, 2008 13:03
    12

    @vic you need a plugin from http://www.dailyblogtips.com/ . the name of the plugins is “Homepage excerpt”. You can control the number of words per blog post to be displayed on the homepage or you can edit your index.php and modify your the_content to the_excerpt to display the summary.

  6. Greg Magnus
    August 21st, 2008 22:23
    11

    I looked everywhere for the solution to this page not showing issue. List pages was missing from the templates (more than one of blog)! Thanks!

  7. Vic
    June 25th, 2008 01:30
    10

    Hi there,
    Know anyone how plugin to use if I want only a part of the article to be displayed? If someone want to read more there will be a “read more” link… Can anyone help?
    On my blog right now is displayed all the article…

  8. Jim
    May 10th, 2008 04:23
    9

    May I suggest taking a look at the Paginated Comments Wordpress plugin? I see you have a ton of comments on many topics and this may help.

  9. Doug
    April 25th, 2008 02:25
    8

    Hi, I can’t find where to inset the tag. Can you help? Which file do I insert it into? Thanks.

  10. Richard
    March 23rd, 2008 04:46
    7

    Thanks for the tip. I was just looking for a way to do this and was not sure of the answer. I am going to give it a go and see i can make it work.

    Thanks,
    Richard

  11. Sam
    March 3rd, 2008 08:27
    6

    Great tip, exactly what I was looking for. This is a tag that is often forgotten in WP themes… (by myself as well). Thanks!

  12. Alin
    December 21st, 2007 12:23
    5

    :) ) this is nuts! Look at the page source if you really want to see what I meant.

    Sorry about too many posts.

  13. Alin
    December 21st, 2007 12:21
    4

    Let me try it this way . I hope it works.

  14. Alin
    December 21st, 2007 12:19
    3

    Let me try it this way . I hope it wors.

  15. Alin
    December 21st, 2007 12:16
    2

    Try using the nextpage as a HTML comment. That is &lt!–nextpage–&gt. It works on my site.

    ~alin

  16. simon
    November 26th, 2007 20:09
    1

    i cant seem get the next page to work any tips…

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