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I have a long document that I am publishing as a page and splitting into sub-pages using page breaks <!--nextpage-->.

I am trying to find out if it is possible somehow to add tags to these sub-pages.

I can't seem to find a plugin or a tutorial out there on this subject.

Any help?

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Please post your code. I don't that pagination should necessarily effect the tag display. It has something to do with your particular theme code. – s_ha_dum Dec 14 '12 at 14:24
I don't have any code. I just have a page into which I have inserted <!--nextpage--> which breaks the page up into sub-pages. I would like to add specific tags to these subpages. – user18577 Dec 14 '12 at 14:28
Yes, you do have code. If you didn't the site wouldn't work. It is probably in index.php or single.php. If you tell me the URL for the problem page I might be able to tell you exactly. – s_ha_dum Dec 14 '12 at 14:31
I just have a default install of wordpress with no additional code added yet. I was hoping to simply add a plugin or some code snippets to functions.php to add the tags functionality. – user18577 Dec 14 '12 at 14:32
What theme are you using? – s_ha_dum Dec 14 '12 at 14:34
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You have to add tag support to your Pages.

function page_tags() {
   register_taxonomy_for_object_type('post_tags','pages'); // adds tag support
   add_meta_box('tagsdiv-page_tag','tags','post_tags_meta_box','page','side','low'); // adds the meta box itself
}
add_action('admin_init','page_tags');

You still won't see tags anywhere. You can move the meta box around using the 'side' and 'low' parameters. See the link below.

Now look in TwentyEleven's content-single.php and find the get_the_tag_list line. That is the part you want. You need to edit content-page.php to look like ...

<footer class="entry-meta">
    <?php echo get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>
    <?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyeleven' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
</footer><!-- .entry-meta -->

That should do it.

Be aware that editing a default theme is dangerous. It will be overwritten when you update. You should be creating a child theme.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy_for_object_type

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_meta_box

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Thanks. But will this allow me to tag sub-pages created by using the <!--nextpage--> tag? These have the URL structure: www.mysite.com/mypage/1 , www.mysite.com/mypage/2 , www.mysite.com/mypage/3 , www.mysite.com/mypage/4 . From the dashboard they are all part of the same page. But they are separated on the frontend. – user18577 Dec 14 '12 at 15:39
You want to individually tag subpages? – s_ha_dum Dec 15 '12 at 15:45
yes - I need to tag individual sub-pages – user18577 Dec 17 '12 at 10:20
Each sub-page with different tags? There is nothing built in that will do that, and I don't think it is a simple hack. Tags apply to the post and a paginated post is still just one post. – s_ha_dum Dec 17 '12 at 14:13

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