Pagination, how to implement within a post

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Styling_Page-Links

AlchyMyth, thank you! I knew it had to be something like that, but couldn’t find it. I didn’t search for it under “styling page link” – just under pagination, which gave me all sorts of info about creation of the pagination code, but not how to implement it!

Thank you, thank you!

For anyone else looking for this info, the answer is to add

<!–nextpage–>

where you want a page break in your post. Simple, if you have the info – impossible without it.

to make life easier, there is also this plugin which adds a button to the visual page/post editor
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/nextpage-buttons/

(due to changes to the plugin search routine, it does not come up if you search the plugins for ‘nextpage’)

Thanks AlchyMyth. I can’t make nextpage work, though. I downloaded it and put it in the appropriate directory, but it doesn’t show up on my plugins page, so I can’t activate it. Any idea what’s going on?

I downloaded it and put it in the appropriate directory

no idea – it should be in the /wp-contents/plugin/ folder of your wordpress installation on your server.

alternatively, try to install it from within the dashboard – plugins – add new
searchterm ‘nextpage-buttons’

That took care of it – thank you.

Interestingly, the <!–nextpage–> code was placed between <h3> </h3> tags, like this: <h3><!–nextpage–></h3>

As it turns out, there’s a conflict with the theme I’m using, which became obvious with the h3 tags, as it placed the page tags inside the <h3></h3> codes. So it appears that no pagination will work until I go to a new them – a task I’m not looking forward to.

That’s a shame – but this isn’t the first thing that hasn’t worked with this theme. Now, if only I could figure out a way to select a theme that plays well with others!