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Pagination for writing a guide or a review

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

hello,

here you can see a post in my blog with pagination.

Each extra page has its own name and on the top and bottop of the content you can clearly see a drop down menu with those pages (or list) for quick navigation.

That makes it easy for someone to jump to page 3 of that post since that is what he wants to read and since the page has a name he knows what that page includes.

 

Basically i am more than happy with this forum since it does not miss any functionality in any way. So i was wondering if something like that is possible. If it is i am going to disable my blog and start working only on my forum

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

If you mean pagination of a single post then no – and I doubt any forum would offer this. Not really even sure how such a thing could be handled. If I am misunderstanding then perhaps I need a bigger explanation!

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

No my friend you did not misunderstood at all. I think vbulletin has a feature like this.

 

What i am talking about is

 

What about a pagebreak code feature, that would allow you to make a post into a multipage post?

For example…:

Introduction

..sometext

 

Opening the box

..some more text

testing

..some more text

 

Conclusion

 

…the last text

This would make it possible to make article like posts with a quick index of its content, preserving vertical browser space and perhaps even boost performance, since a lot of information is withheld unless you dig in.

 

Cool
MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

no, sorry no such feature…  dont understand how that would pertain to a forum… certainly understand for a post or a page, but not a forum entry…

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

well it was just an idea :D.

Basically i find it hard to connect a multipage blog entry with the forum since the forum post gets way big. So i thought asking here might solve this thing.

I will just make a post in the forum with an intro and then will link it to the blog post. That way i wont have my forum stretched.

 

Thanks for your answers both of you 😀

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

ah, so you are linking a multipage blog post to a forum topic? you can limit the number of words that get posted in the topic to keep it from getting large…

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

maybe there is a way to link a blog post with the forum but the post that is created in the forum is like an excerpts? 

 

so the blog post wont stretched but it will have a link to the blog post if you want to read the full story and also be able to talk about the post in the forum.

 

Damn even i cannot understand my self.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

you missed my post… yes, wp excerpt… or just a word limit…

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

Mr Papa said:

ah, so you are linking a multipage blog post to a forum topic? you can limit the number of words that get posted in the topic to keep it from getting large…

 

damn you are fast. I didn't manage to see your post since i was posting mine. Sorry.

 

Yes exactly that solves my problem 100%. How is that possible? Is there any link i can read a guide about it?

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

oh my god i am such a $$@#%%

Sorry mate but having the forum back-end in Greek makes things hard.

 

I will start tomorrow a new translation with only the front end in greek (i hope i manage to find all the strings)

 

Thanks once more.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

np. glad to help.

v5.0 has the backend and frontend separated out into different translations…

GN GnFi
GnFi
Member

Mr Papa said:

np. glad to help.

v5.0 has the backend and frontend separated out into different translations…

i know and i really can't wait. By the way beers incoming from me tomorrow, just for all the wonderful job you two people doing.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

looking forward to it! thanks for the kind words!