Multi-page pagination
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I created a page, that has multiple pages underneath it. It is actually a collection of articles. http://jeffsuever.wordpress.com/study. The pagination gets me the “pages 1,2,3,4” etc. as I wanted, but my questions comes in when I get more articles. It will just be a never ending series of numbers. What I was hoping for was “1,2,3,4….10” or something like that.
Is this possible?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What you are doing is splitting the content of only one page. Usually pagination is used for a small number of pages because you are asking a lot from your readers to sift through many untitled “pages;” how would someone remember what is on page 7 without a descriptive title. As to the format of the numbers being like “1,2,3,…10” I don’t know.
It seems to me you would be better off making those sections of that page into posts, and then categorizing them as “study” and “Exodus,” “John,” “Acts” and so on. That way your readers could choose a lesson to read about; they’d be much more likely to find topics they are interested in if you offered them choices rather than just numbers.
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That might work. I had considered that, then making each particular study (Exodus, John, Acts, etc.) its own sub-page.
You bring up a very good point about the descriptions.
Will have to give it more thought. It kind of seems like I am trying to make a site with two different blogs on two different pages, without having to maintain two sites and the audience being able to go from one to the other easily. hmmmmm -
jeffsuever
No, not more sub pages. Use categories!!!With most blogging software, you don’t even have an option to make separate pages. (see Blogger for example).
Wordpress has the option to make pages for information that does not change: an about page, a page about what are the books in the Bible, a page about the ingredients your need for recipes, a page about the major plant classifications, or whatever else is basic non-changing information your readers should know about your blog topic.WordPress also has a very powerful and useful tool for making category pages on the fly. If you use categories, WordPress.com generates category pages dynamically for you, with all the posts you assign to those categories.
Just write posts and assign the posts to categories, add a category widget, and the wp software will make the posts available to your readers automatically: all your posts in “Exodus, John, Acts, etc.”
It’s a bit difficult to get your mind around, but well worth the effort. Read the following and ask more questions if you like.
http://support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/
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