Paginating Blog Posts

[drschilling]

Hi,

My blog posts average about 4,000 words and go as high as 7,500 words. I also have 10,500 posts. I'm working to improve the speed of my site (bostoncommons.net) which is running Magazine-Pro.

I was thinking of trying a pagination plugin like WP-Paginate to improve load times.

Anyone have any experience with this? Also, how do I modify the theme to accomplish this?

Thank you!

David

http://bostoncommons.net

[Andrea Rennick]

Wordpress has a built in shortcode for this.

<!--nextpage-->

it works in literally any theme since it goes in your content. Paste where you wish the page to break.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts#Visual_Versus_Text_Editor

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[drschilling]

Hi,

I am aware of the short code. But I have 12,500 posts on my site. Would take the rest of my life to place them manually.

Any automated way to do this?

Thanks!

[carasmo]

A search in Google "programatically <!--nextpage--> wordpress" (no quotes) yields nothing I found useful.

I would use a jQuery plugin to count the paragraphs and then insert the pagination.

See http://web.enavu.com/js/jquery/jpaginate-jquery-pagination-system-plugin/. Read the entire post.

Then read:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-properly-add-javascripts-and-styles-in-wordpress/

When you use the js plugin, then you don't touch your content. Make sure you use a more specific selector (entry-content), don't use the #content in the example:

$( '.entry-content' ).jPaginate {items: 4, paginaton_class: "myownclass"} );

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