Hard code the nextpage tag into my theme?

Question

I have a custom post type for a Slideshow which uses Custom Post Meta to insert the different slides. How can I code the <!--nextpage--> tag in between the sides in my slideshow.php so that they slides will paginate? Right now when I try to do it the code doesn't show because it by it's nature it commented out.

Answer 1

This question was more extensively discussed at Hybrid support forum. I made and posted snippet for custom pagination of custom fields content there.

Answer 2

Inserting into your theme does not make much sense, because it's parsed prior theme display. You need to have that in your posts content prior to display (that means in $post->post_content when queried). This might not already be the case, so a reason why you currently experience that it is not paginating. The other reason why this happens is an incompatible theme.

The function that takes care about pagination in post templates (templates are a theme related part in wordpress) is called wp_link_pages(). You theme must support the multipage global variables otherwise this will never work. Those global variables are: $page, $pages, $multipage, $more, $numpages. You can learn more about their usage in setup_postdata() (undocumented function, see setup_postdata() in source).

So if you manage to get all the <!--nextpage--> fragments into your posts content and your theme supports multi pages for that custom post type template, you should be fine. The wp_link_pages() function might be handy to achieve this.

Answer 3

for me <!-- nextpage --> is not working for any theme. Check the post http://article-stack.com/education/web-design-n-development/blog-blogger-blogging/xampp-how-to-run-test-wordpress-locally.amty