Title: Split Long Posts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Split Long Posts?

 *  [astereo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astereo/)
 * (@astereo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/)
 * Hello.
    I’ve been trying to find a plugin that splits long posts over multiple
   pages. The plugin I tried using (Page Posts 2) is activated and didn’t do anything.
   I looked through the php file to see if there was a setting for how many words
   before it split and I couldn’t find one.
 * Anyone know how to get this plugin to work or know of a similar one?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-365784)
 * When writing or editing a post, there should be quicktags available. The more
   quicktag writes <!–more–> where you want the post to break.
 *  Thread Starter [astereo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astereo/)
 * (@astereo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-365785)
 * The more quicktag doesn’t not break posts into multiple pages, it only helps 
   decrease the amount shown on a homepage by making you click more to read the 
   rest.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-365787)
 * `<!--nextpage-->`
    will do that, provided you have the proper template tag in
   your template file (index.php?), namely `<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>` – usually
   it is in the feedback div of the Loop.
 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-365788)
 * what about using the_excerpt rather than the_content?
 * `
    <?php if ($single) the_content(); else { the_excerpt(); if (!empty($post->
   post_excerpt)) { ?>
 * <?php
    } } ?>
 * instead of
 * `
    <?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>
 * I mean, what’s the point of the split? With the excerpt, you could explicitly
   copy the first portion into the excerpt field when writing the post or leave 
   the excerpt field empty and it will auto-default to show first 120 words…
 * read: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-365789)
 * You can also insert the `<!-- nextpage -->`, but your theme will need to support
   it and it seems many theme authors aren’t aware it exists. But essentially, each
   time you use it it breaks the post up into pages.
 * More info on that option here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#I_used_the_Quicktag_.3C.21–nextpage&#8211](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#I_used_the_Quicktag_.3C.21–nextpage&#8211);.
   3E_in_a_post_so_why_doesn.27t_it_work.3F
 * [gah, while I was writing that 3 others responded. lol]
 *  Thread Starter [astereo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astereo/)
 * (@astereo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-365794)
 * Thanks guys, got it to work 🙂
 *  [David Cameron Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-dave/)
 * (@seo-dave)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/split-long-posts/#post-366385)
 * I was looking for help with the PagePosts 2 plugin which I think is suppossed
   to automatically split posts that are long into multiple pages. I found the plugin
   under [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Posts_Formatting](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Posts_Formatting)
 * Like astereo above I’ve installed the plugin, but nothing happened (I tried both
   versions of the plugin). So checked out the associated webhsite, but it’s in 
   Chinese, so no help their.
 * I’ve also tried <!– nextpage –> which does what I want, but not automated. I 
   need it automating because some of the posts I plan to add will result in a lot
   of pages (over 30) and I’d like them all roughly the same size without having
   to work it out manually (adding the <!– nextpage –> at X number of charachters
   would be time consuming!).
 * So has anyone got pagepost2 plugin working with WP version 2.0.2 or know of another
   solution?
 * Thanks.

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