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Ways to handle very long articles
I have a 10,000+ word technical walkthrough, complete with screenshots and code samples. It is, as you can probably imagine, unwieldy for a single page article.
I’m out of habit with long-form articles like this, and I want to publish with as few barriers to reader comprehension as possible. One of the methods I’ve seen, particularly with long-form reviews, is a select dropdown toward the footer with ‘Chapter 1: foo’, ‘Chapter 2: bar’, ‘Chapter 3: base’ options which hyperlink to the various parts of the article. I’m sure there are other clever ways, too.
From a publishing standpoint with the reader in mind, I can split the article across a 10+ individual articles and style them the same so they appear coherent and matched, but is there a Textpattern-native (or a plugin, if needed) method that I can insert something into a single long-form article that achieves the same thing as splitting the article? Effectively like this, which is a bit like <a name="#woo">, I suppose:
<txp:something_to_indicate_a_chapter_id id="1" />
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<txp:something_to_indicate_a_chapter_id id="2" />
Nulla placerat metus diam, efficitur varius risus venenatis nec. Sed quam turpis, facilisis sit amet vulputate at, placerat ac libero. Ut massa turpis, condimentum vel ultricies in, hendrerit id metus. Maecenas eleifend facilisis magna convallis auctor. Proin tempor vehicula fermentum. Cras in malesuada ipsum. Nulla auctor elit sed eleifend ultricies. Proin eu varius lorem. Phasellus nec rhoncus libero, ut elementum est. Sed porttitor pulvinar mi sed consectetur. Sed vel ipsum sem. Sed molestie, magna ut bibendum sodales, purus sem porttitor ex, vestibulum ornare ante tortor eget mauris. Suspendisse dictum convallis lorem, vel dictum ante rhoncus ut.Take this (work safe) example:
That’s the base article. Ars Technica use pages with hyperlinks, which have this URL format (note the trailing numbers):
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/05/review-the-absolutely-optional-apple-watch-and-watch-os-1-0/2/
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/05/review-the-absolutely-optional-apple-watch-and-watch-os-1-0/3/
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/05/review-the-absolutely-optional-apple-watch-and-watch-os-1-0/4/…and so on. This is what I want to achieve. Perhaps inevitably, Ars Technica do this with WordPress – can something similar be achieved with Textpattern?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
Never used it, but there was soo_multi_doc before, not sure if it is current.
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
Nice one -thanks, Jonathan.
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#5 2015-06-07 13:58:14
- uli
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
There’s also smd_pagicle. From Stef’s plugin page:
Automatically split long articles into bite-size hunks which visitors can navigate between using the handy pager. The whole article is loaded in one go; the various pages are simply switched into view via jQuery.
IIRC (toyed with it 5+ years ago) there’s an arbitrary codestring to separate the chapters, like
••• --- UNIQUE DIVIDER --- •••.
Edit: Removed what was inapplicable.
Last edited by uli (2015-06-07 14:00:50)
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
Aha! An smd plugin – even better. Thanks, Uli.
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
I kind of like long articles to be on one url, especially when there is a printing stylesheet – but that’s just me:)
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
colak wrote #291404:
I kind of like long articles to be on one url, especially when there is a printing stylesheet – but that’s just me:)
There will be that option available, certainly. Perhaps a single article with appropriate anchors and presentation will achieve my goal. I’ll think on it.
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Re: Ways to handle very long articles
Thank you, Oleg – excellent.
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