I have updated my Multipage Toolkit to version 2.6 .
This is a major update, but you will be glad to hear it does not break any existing installations of the previous version.
Changes in this release include the following :-
New auto-insert option to display multipage toolkit on multipage Pages as well as Posts.
ALL pages link with custom seperator
The plugin by default now displays a ALL pages link in navigation links, this in effect allows the ability to display multipage posts on a single page – some people do not like multipage posts – so this fixes that!!
You can now add custom seperators between pages when viewing single page. Great for adding advertising code or extra things like images. This has been added by demand for the SEO types!!!
Visual Editor Integration
Multipage Toolkit is now fully integrated in to the WordPress Visual Editor (tinymce 3.x). What does this mean? Well as long as you are using wordpress 2.5 and above, you will now see two new buttons in your editor.
1st button, inserts page breaks i.e. adds pages to your posts – creating multipage posts.
2nd button, inserts and edits page titles.
Auto Insert Options Page
No more code, let me say that again no more code. Finally you can access all the powerful options available to you with the multipage toolkit right inside your admin panel. No more messing about with your theme files.
Coders you have not been forgotten…..
For people who still want to use code in their themes and need the extra level of control afforded – nothing has changed the same function calls and options still exist.
There is the addition to simplify the manual use within themes. You can now call the settings from the options page by using the following lines in your theme.
1st instance settings <?php TA_content_jump(1); ?>
2nd instance settings <?php TA_content_jump(2); ?>
You can still make custom settings via the function call. Please read my post here, which covers all the functions and options available as well as CSS styling options.
On the next page I cover the new features in detail…….
I am having an issue where (using single.php) the plugin works fine for page 1, 2 and all but when I click on page 3, it eaither adds or strips a tag and throws my page layout out.
I am using 2.7
ANy help would be great.
example:
(http://test.shakingpaper.com.au/tutorial/another-articles-for-you/)
Hi,
Yes it does work in wp 2.7 (my site is running 2.7).
Thanks for the donation, it is always appreciated as it spurs me to keep developing 🙂
I cannot wait to see it in action on your site.
I hope to release a new version soon – this will hopefully include new SEO options with browser titles and indexing features for search engines. I am also hoping to modify the options page to look better in wp2.7.
Has anybody tried using this plugin with WordPress version 2.7 or does it need to be updated for 2.7? Thanks.
Hey Tarkan! Thanks for this plugin. It is exactly what i was searching for. As soon as my new project will be online, I will send you a link. Donation already sent 😉
Regards from germany,
Markus
Hi Tarkan,
during the last weeks I had some talks with seo gurus and a lot of web forums users. what seems to be the best solution for seo and usability is to tell google to index only the all page. this can be easly achieved in this way:
test the url to see does not contains “all”. if yes, print in the header
META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOINDEX, FOLLOW”
to prevent indexing of the subpages.
In this way only the all page will be indexed by google, and there is no duplicate content.
ciao
f
p.s. i can not post html code, as you can see in my previous comments. but if someone index the all page only there is no need to eliminate comments from the subpages…
Just a little sujestion to improve the code in the previous comment. At hte and I decided to print the comments only in the first page and add a link to the comment page in any other page. This is the code:
<a href=””>Post or read comments
In this way comments are always print once. If in the robot file one tell to the spider not to index the all page there is no more duplicate content on the site.
ciao fabiano
Hi there,
I’m still thinking to a possible way to avoid duplicate comments. a possible solution is to print the comments only in the last (or first page) of the post, something like this:
or
ciao
f
Hi Neil,
My plugin does not do anything to the RSS feed.
The only settings in wordpress for the feed are choice of summary or full – I wonder if full text setting is not multipage aware therefore only showing the first page.
Try asking over at wordpress.org
Hi there,
Great plugin!
We have an issue in that we have a full post rss feed but when using pagnation it only shows the first page?
We syndicate our feed to a number of sites and unfortunately they only get the first page of posts.
Is this a known issue or do we need to change some settings?
Thanks,
Neil
Fabiano,
I am looking at providing an option to control the indexing. My only concern so far is
a) not sure how to approach the whole indexing sub-page or all page,
b) I don’t really want to change the fabric of how wordpress works – as standard wordpress treats sub-pages as seperate entities, without my plugin clicking on a multipage post takes you to the first page. There is no way of getting to the view all page (My plugin actually generates that otherwise it does not exist) – by me making the individual pages on a post non-index then nothing on the site will get indexed…
The only way forward I see is to make the first & view all page indexable and maybe turn-off indexing for the remaining pages.
I do understand where you are coming from in relation to the comments, but I think that is something which should be dealt with in the theme rather than my plugin.
If my idea above was implemented then it would be possible to not show comments on the view all page, as only the first page and the view all page is indexed – then duplicate content is reduced greatly….
Hi Tarkan
thank you for your time and effort. I’m still not sure if it is better to said to the spider not to index the all page, or the post subpages. Maybe you can add an option to let the user choose which one not to index.
On the google page I posted in my last comment they say:
“Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar.”
and also:
“If you have many pages that are similar, consider expanding each page or consolidating the pages into one. For instance, if you have a travel site with separate pages for two cities, but the same information on both pages, you could either merge the pages into one page about both cities or you could expand each page to contain unique content about each city.”
Look for exemple at this page: comments are 10 times longer than the post real content. I think when google spider those 2 pages it thinks they are more or less the same.
One possible solution is to put comments on a separate page, as I sayd in my last post. Or make google spider only the all page, in this way also the comments are present only one time. Maybe this is the best and easyest solution.
I don’t know a lot of site that have multipage post, usually people prefear one page post. In any case I think that it worth optimize your own site, and maybe you will be more popular than the sites you cite 🙂
ciao and thank you again
Fabiano
I am running a new internal beta of my plugin which takes care of the duplicate content issue for view all page.
The plugin now creates a meta header tag tell search engines to not index the view all page.
I don’t really think the comments duplication is that much of a worry. I have read most of the info from google and most of the very popular and large websites I visit have the same comments on each page of a multipage post.
Hello Tarkan
some others toughts about duplicate content. I think duplicate content is a serious question when using multipage posts…
In any subpage of the post there is a duplicate of all the comments, and I’m afraid this can be a big problem with google:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66359
A possible solution could be to have comments in a different page, something like:
http://www.mysite.com/posttitle/comments
and in every post subpage or “view all page” have a link to the comments page and do not print alla the posts.
What do you think about that?
ciao
Fabiano
Hi Tarkan,
thank you very much for your answer. I will follow the numeration as you did.
1) to add a “nofollow” to the all page was just an idea, I’m not sure it is the best one. maybe is better nofollow the other pages? I don’t know eactly. for this reason I asked this question here, hoping some SEO guru can find the best solution. In any case it is true, maybe just using the robot file will be ok.
2) I understand the problem! it is a shame, it would be nice to modify the title tag for each page. hope you will find a nice solution one of these days.
in any case I think it would be useful to have the function the print the current subpage title to use it at least inside the loop. if we can not change the title of the page ( tag) we can at least change the title of the post (what is inside ), is’n it?
3) thank you very much! I hope language switcher will be in the list!
4) thank you for that too, it is a good idea to let the user chose the best solution.
thank you very much for your time
fabiano
Hi Fabiano,
Thanks for the feedback – you have made some good suggestions. I’ll go through each one below.
1. Search Engines and View All page, I think it maybe possible to introduce a rel=nofollow for the View All links. This should hopefully solve that issue. Of course you can always use your robots.txt file to deny access to all urls ending with /all/1 (which will be the view all page locations).
2. Browser header titles – this is quite tuff. It has been mentioned before and the only solution I think that will work will make the plugin extremely bulky and complex.
The issue with the pagetitles is they are stored inside the post, so the post has to be retrieved to read them. Secondly, WordPress sends the header title to the browser outside of the loop i.e. before the post has been retrieved – so there would be no way of knowing the pagetitle of the particular page beforehand.
The solution I have come up with would be to scan all posts retrieving the pagetitles, etc then storing them titles somewhere that the plugin can retrieve them from to display for the header title.
I am currently happy with the performance of my plugin and this would make it very slow and increase the query count too much, so this will have to be shelved for now – unless I can find a better solution.
3. Translators – to be honest several people have contacted me about this, I have been very lazy on this. So I promise before I release the next version I will try and fix the plugin to worker better with these translation plugins.
4. Page numbering for View All link. I think this is personal preference. I like having the View All page numbered because it look neat and tidy. But, I do think you should be able to choose – so I will create a new setting to have page numbering on the View All links.
Hello,
I tried to send you an email but I’m not sure if it worked. I will post it here in the comments:
I really like your plugin multipage toolkit, thank you very much for that. I have some suggestion for you, I hope you will appreciate it.
I think there is some problem with SEO. The biggest one is the duplicate content, because the single pages and “view all” are more or less the same. is there any why to avoid google find duplicate content? maybe add something to prevent SE to spider the “view all” page?
the second problem is that on every single subpage the “title” tag in the header and “post title” always remain the same. and google is not so happy with duplicate titles. it would be very useful to add someting to those tags like this “post title” – “subpage title” or “post title” – “page1” if no subpagetitle had been defined.
if one could put in his theme a function that print the current subpage title or subpage number it would be perfect. I think is not to hard to code and it could increase our page ranking and trafic.
a lot of peoples uses multilanguage plugins, like te qtranslate cited above. I use poplarware language switch plugin (sorry, your mail post do not allow me to write uri), that is very similar to qtranslate.
on that page the author explain how you can filter other plugins output to have multilanguage post. I think it would be nice if you add multilanguage support. it is very easy, just have a look to the “Filtering Output of Plugins and Themes” section.
the last think is just some aesthetic idea. in your post “WordPress Plugin : Multipage Toolkit 2.6” you have
1. what’s new
2. instructions
3. view all
I think the “3.” is quite confusing, and let people think there are 3 pages. maybe it would be better to number only subpages…
1. what’s new
2. instructions
view all
I hope you appreciate my suggestion. If you will code them in the next version of your plugin I’m sure I will use it.
See you
Fabiano
p.s. sorry for my english…
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Can you give me the address of your site, so I can see what is going.
Send it to me via my contact page if you prefer.
Whatever I try It won’t center,
the align center thing just doesn’t work.
Maybe it’s because I use tinymce?
Anyway,
How can I “hardcode” for the title and the navigation to align in the center, I don’t want the ability to have it on the left or on the right, just the center.