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#1 2009-10-07 01:17:45
- Luxebot
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Pagination for Long Articles?
Hi everyone, I am looking for a way to split long articles into pages. I have found hfw_pg and etz_pg but it looks like for both of them that you need to manually insert a tag in the article itself when you want to skip to the next page.
What I am looking for is a way to automatically paginate the articles, like if they reach 1000 words, for instance, then there’s automatically a link to go to the next page, etc (like in magazine sites). Is there a plugin available for this or is it already a function available in TXP? Much thanks for any and all help.
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
Definitely not core Txp. I don’t know of a plugin that fits your needs any more closely than the two you’ve already found.
Might be tricky to get something like this to work really well — to find appropriate page breaks, and divide pages in reasonable proportions, and do all this without incurring too great a performance penalty.
Code is topiary
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
Dang, Jeff— I was going to recommend multidoc as the closest-possible-solution. Multidoc takes the opposite approach: instead of splitting up big articles, it automatically generates the navigation (and all other necessary scaffolding and filigree) to connect multiple articles into a single, multipage document.
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#4 2009-10-07 03:00:06
- Luxebot
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
Oh :( I was almost going to try MultiDoc but I wasn’t clear on what it did, exactly. Thanks.
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#5 2009-10-07 08:29:56
- Luxebot
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
Might be tricky to get something like this to work really well — to find appropriate page breaks, and divide pages in reasonable proportions, and do all this without incurring too great a performance penalty.
Yeah — I guess I was hoping it would work like the excellent rss_auto_excerpt where you could choose between characters, paragraphs, and words as a place to split it. It would be so useful for a magazine-type site or similar! I wish I knew PHP/Javascript because I would definitely code it myself if I could.
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#6 2009-10-07 10:46:02
- uli
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
And there’s smd_pagicle
Choose where you split the page; either via some fixed code your authors can enter at chosen break points, or at particular elements on the page (e.g. at each <h2>)
In bad weather I never leave home without wet_plugout, smd_where_used and adi_form_links
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
Note to self: before saying “there’s no plugin for …”, check stefdawson.com first.
Code is topiary
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Re: Pagination for Long Articles?
jsoo wrote:
check stefdawson.com first.
Also a good move before saying “there is no possible way that Textpattern can…”
Stef can make Textpattern do Cirque du Soleil.
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