How to Break Up a List in Wordpress Without Restarting Sequence

I just wanted to share this because I needed to build a numbered list in Wordpress that was quite long and I needed to break it up with images. However whenever I tried to add a gap the numbering for the next section started back from 1 again.

So I found this which shows how to do it if anyone is interested and wants a long list, and my apologies if there is training or a blog already on this.

Here is a sample list of items as they would appear in the visual editor

1 Item A

2 Item B

3 Item C

In the text editor this will look like

<ol>

<li>Item A</li>

<li>Item B</li>

<li>Item C</li>

</ol>

If I want to break up the list and insert a picture, normally I would have to start re-numbering the list. Instead I can add a space between 2 and 3, go into text editor and change the text as follows.

<ol>

<li>Item A</li>

<li>Item B</li>

</ol>

<ol start="3">

<li>Item C</li>

</ol>

The only piece that I have added is in bold the rest is automatically added for the space.

So there you have it, the only reason I've written this down is because next time I want to to do this I will have forgotten. So now I know there is a blog written on WA specifically on this topic!