I created a plugin to split a field into multiple pages, without having to do the multi_field pagination trick.
Your URLs will look like http://yoursite.com/site/this-is-the-entry/3

Where this-is-the-entry is your entry, and 3 is the page number. You can split a field into as many pages as you want, it works similar to how Word Press pages an entry into multiple pages. Its meant to be used on only one field like {body} and only on a single entry page.

You can have numbered page navigation, or just next/previous links.

Here is the example code:
{exp:page_field page="{segment_3}" backspace="2"}
{body}

{page_navigation}
<p>total is: {total}</p>
<p>{num_pages}<a href=’{page_num}’>{page_num}</a> | {/num_pages}</p>
<p>
{if has_previous}
<a href=’{title_permalink={my_template_group}/index}{previous}’>Previous</a>
{/if}
{if has_next}
<a href=’{title_permalink={my_template_group}/index}{next}’>Next</a>
{/if}
</p>
{/page_navigation}
{/exp:page_field}

I’ve also included a tiny_mce plugin to make insertion of the required <!--break--> snippet easier.

If you have any problems or suggestions just send me an email: kenrick@thebusypixel.com

Hmmmm… Surprised nobody has commented on this...looks handy. I haven’t had to split an entry yet, most of my clients have professional writers/editors and keep things in check but if/when I do I’ll give this a whirl.

Great!

Nice one!… I don’t have a site that needs this yet but I’m sure it will come up

I got in touch the original plug-in developer, and he suggested that the combination of the simple-pagination plug-in with the TinyMCE pagebreak plug-in might be more supported over time.

I’m still experimenting.

As a newbie, I have to repeat that I am truly impressed with the active involvement of developers ...

you can add this to line 65 if you are getting the page_navigation bug:

$text = preg_replace("/”.LD."page_navigation”.RD."(.*?)”.LD.SLASH.’page_navigation’.RD."/s", “”, $text);