Split a long blog post into pages
A lot of bloggers say you shouldn’t write really long articles and to keep your blog posts to about 500 words. But sometimes you just have to let the words flow. To a point. There is such a thing as blog post that’s too long.
For those times where you find yourself pouring out boatloads of information, and you don’t want to overwhelm your reader with the endless scroll, there’s a fancy built-in pagination feature in WordPress.
To use it, at each point you’d like a new page to begin, type in the following:
<!--nextpage-->
You can see it in action at the bottom of this post.
Sure it’s a little tedious if you have an post that spans 20 pages. At that point I’d revise and cut out stuff in order to whip the post into shape for internet consumption.
There are other pagination plugins around the WordPress world, but I’m all for keeping it as simple as possible.
