How can I insert a PAGE BREAK into a page ??

[shags38]

I want to insert a page break into a page as its content is too long for one page according to some SEO advice I have. It is actually 18,000 plus words and I want to break it into about 10 pages.

I can easily do this in my CMS with a widget but when the html for the document is copied into Zen everything is fine except the page breaks are shown purely as text [page_break] and have no effect (so the page is one single page 14 miles long which the Googlebot will not read).

I just need a code for page breaks that gives the number of pages and the arrows on the top of each page thus 2 3 4 >> next.

Looking forward to some assistance.

thanks,
Mike

[ksookma]

You might just have to add all the pages manually as ez-pages and manually make the pagination.

[shags38]

You might just have to add all the pages manually as ez-pages and manually make the pagination.

Thanks for your comment however with over 300 articles at an average of 2 to a page it would mean upwards of 150 individual pages which will be a navigational nightmare for customers. On a current (non Zen) site I have these articles in categories of about 20 to 40 articles per category for easy selection and navigation by visitors.

There must be a simple solution - even this forum and the FAQ's pages on the Zen site have breaks then the < 2 3 4 5 >> page selection links on the pages.

cheers,
Mike

[afo]

How are you organizing your information? Are you using "document general"?

[gjh42]

As afo suggests, the easiest way to get the functionality you want would be to make the articles products rather than ez-pages or define pages, using the "document-general" product type. Each long article can be a subcategory with the pages individual "products" in it. This will automatically get the prev/next number links on the pages. You can then organize the article subcats into as many "chapter" categories as you want. They will be displayed in the document-categories sidebox.

[gjh42]

over 300 articles at an average of 2 to a page

If you are saying that most of the individual articles are short (not needing page breaks inside them), you could easily use ez-pages with one article to a page, and chapters set so that related articles are in one chapter which is headed by a main article/page. Only these main pages would be set to appear in the side or header menu; when the topic is clicked, there would be a table of contents with links for each page in the chapter. (Not exactly a prev/next, but each title would be shown in order, and you can make the current page distinct.)

[shags38]

As afo suggests, the easiest way to get the functionality you want would be to make the articles products rather than ez-pages or define pages, using the "document-general" product type. Each long article can be a subcategory with the pages individual "products" in it. This will automatically get the prev/next number links on the pages. You can then organize the article subcats into as many "chapter" categories as you want. They will be displayed in the document-categories sidebox.

Between yourself and AFO it seems that this is the answer so I will give it a try later today and see how it goes - I will let you know the result.

Many thanks,
Mike

[afo]

I'm in the process of changing it over to another CMS program, but right now, my nephew's site is Zen Cart as CMS and the information is a mix of document general and EZ pages. The link is in my sig.