Besides the somewhat predictable cases of blogs with lots of text and / or pictures, comes a third possibility for problems with Auto Pagination - excessively complex HTML. We've noted before that Microsoft Word generates a lot of complex and mysterious HTML - and some large blogs, which contain a lot of articles composed under Microsoft Word, appear to be suffering from segmentation - possibly without justification.
If your blog is big (but not that big), and lacks huge amounts of text and / or pictures - and you're still seeing segmentation of the archives or main page - and you use MS Word for composing your posts, this is a possible reason why your blog display is being segmented.
Whether Blogger can actually filter MS Word ML code, before generating the blog display pages, is an interesting question. You might be better off removing all MSWord generated meta code on your own, if possible. Better yet - always paste content, unformatted (Ctrl+Shift+V).
My blog was BIG, and no one ever, not once, complained it was slow loading.and the reply
It's (almost) unbelievable how long Google is taking to flick the switch and restore things to how they were pre auto-pagination.
It appears that you have done a lot of copy-pasting from MS Word into your blog, and unfortunately doing so will add a very large amount of unseen (but still 'heavy') HTML tags to your post.
If you look at the source code of this very short post (http://naturealert.blogspot.com/2010/02/bbc-news-panorama-palm-oil-products-and.html), you will notice the huge amount of garbage that MS Word adds.
If your blog is big (but not that big), and lacks huge amounts of text and / or pictures - and you're still seeing segmentation of the archives or main page - and you use MS Word for composing your posts, this is a possible reason why your blog display is being segmented.
Whether Blogger can actually filter MS Word ML code, before generating the blog display pages, is an interesting question. You might be better off removing all MSWord generated meta code on your own, if possible. Better yet - always paste content, unformatted (Ctrl+Shift+V).
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Good thought. My guess is that more people buy computers with MS Office packaged and / or buy MS Office because it's the office suite product most commonly used in business. WLW is an after thought.
Maybe this experience will motivate a few people to look at WLW.
Take a look at some of the blogs owned by the bloggers complaining about Auto Pagination. These are people who simply do not believe in limiting the size of their posts, nor of the main page, and who are now paying the price.
And they refuse to limit themselves, when told to do so - so Blogger is doing that for them.
And they are not that huge in number either.
And they try to justify themselves by threatening to move their blogs to WordPress.
* I use downsized photos online, not the high res versions. They load faster and don't fill up the photo space Blogger offers. I only use like 7% of that by now and I have put more than 1000 photos on my blog over the last 5 years.
I have just seen only two posts on the main page that made me upset.
Fortunately, I have the solution on you blog, and I followed what you guided.
It's OK now and I want to thank you kindly. Cheers.
Which blog is a problem, for you?