Possible solution: “nextpage” on a static homepage

OK I think I’ve gone part of the way towards solving the persistent issue of getting the nextpage tag to work in a home page; please note this is not yet a complete solution, and it’s also pretty crude coding; at this iteration the more tag doesn’t work with this code, and the homepage checking is not yet sufficiently rigorous to overcome all possible error conditions – see the foot of https://cmslamp.com/category/wordpress/ for discussion and a possible better checking method.

In your main page template immediately after the header call, insert

<?php /* required when home page has "nextpage" tag */ global $more; ?>

In your main page template immediately before the get the content call insert

<?php /* required when home page has "nextpage" tag */ $more = 0; ?>

In your main page template immediately after the content call, insert

<?php /* for nextpage tag processing */

if (is_front_page() != 0) {

/* DEBUG ONLY echo "<br />The home page ID is " . get_the_ID(); */
/* DEBUG ONLY find the number of subpages and display number if more than 1 */
// if (isset($numpages)) {if ($numpages >=2) {echo "<br />The number of pages is "; echo $numpages; }}

?>

<p></p>
<?php 

$i = 1;
if ($numpages >=2) {

echo "<h4>PAGES: ";
while ($i <= $numpages):
$gopt = get_option('siteurl');
$npage = "/?page_id=";
$gid = get_the_ID();
$spage = "&page=";
$spagenum = $i;

$string1 = $gopt . $npage . $gid . $spage . $spagenum;

    echo "<a href='$string1'>" . $i . "</a> " ;
    $i++;
endwhile;

echo "</h4>"; }
?>

<?php

} else { wp_link_pages('before=<p>&after=</p>&next_or_number=number&pagelink=page %');}

/* end homepage processing for nextpage links */  ?>

As I said, it’s crude, but I’d welcome feedback; if after further dev/testing it is still robust in several themes then I may consider rewriting it for a plugin architecture with filters.

Robert