Comments on: Better WordPress pagination

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:33:15 +0000

Thanks Nadeeshyama. I still find $baseURL useful for when you’re outputting posts in a loop on some custom page separate from the main blog, e.g. /news/. This is usually when I’ve fudged different post “types” using categories, though of course WP 3.0 custom post types will make this kind of thing easier, and maybe $baseURL becomes even more relevant?

By: Nadeeshyama Talagala

Nadeeshyama Talagala — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:40:39 +0000

This is great. However I found a way to eliminate the need of $baseUrl. You can add the following to make the $baseUrl for any category eliminating the second argument to the function.

$url = get_bloginfo('url'); $baseUrl = '';


$category_name = $query->query_vars['category_name'];

if (is_string($category_name)) { $category_id = get_cat_ID($category_name); if (isset($category_id)) { $category_link = get_category_link($category_id); if (is_string($category_link)) { $baseUrl = $category_link . '/'; } } }

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:43:24 +0000

Ryan, glad you like the site! As to your issue, hard to tell what’s going on from the outside. However, it seems clear that the issue is probably nothing to do with this pagination code. The URL http://abletonlife.com/news/page/2 is showing the same as http://abletonlife.com/news, so WP’s paging itself isn’t working. The only thing I can spot as a possible starting point is that there’s no trailing slash on the URLs. If one is added, it gets removed. I can’t remember whether it’s a server-level thing or a WP thing, but in my experience the normal behaviour is for trailing slashes to be added if they’re missing. I wonder if the paging URL without a trailing slash isn’t being recognized by WP? If that lead goes nowhere, maybe check the WP forums. Good luck!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:14:20 +0000

Hey Steve! First of all, great site.

Secondly, I have quick question:

If you notice on my “News” page (http://abletonlife.com/news), when you click on the “2″ at the bottom of the page, it loops back to the same page. I know I have more than 10 posts, so why isn’t it showing the other ones like on the home page?

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!

- Ryan

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:54:19 +0000

Thanks Peter! (BTW, do use pastebin.ca for snippets, saves on formatting issues.)

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:48:52 +0000

ayman (9th January 2010) and Steve, to limit the number of pages displayed change

if ( $i == $page ) { 
                echo ''.$i.''; 
            } else { 
                echo ''.$i.'';

if ( $i == $page ) {
				echo ''.$i.'';
			} elseif ($i < 10) {
				echo ''.$i.'';

P.s thanks steve you rock!

By: Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:46:21 +0000

Work a treat !! .. Thanks for sharing.

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:53:50 +0000

Pete, could you give a URL to an example where this is happening? The only thing I can guess at from your sample URL is that perhaps the script doesn’t work properly without “pretty permalinks“. I’m not sure why you wouldn’t have a pretty permalink structure, but if you’re stuck with “ugly” query string-based links—well, it should be easy to adapt. Do post your solution if you need to add anything.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:14:58 +0000

Am I the only one that’s get recursive querystring addition when implementing this pagination script?

I have had to alter the make up of the href a little, but the bulk of the code is still the same.

I could really do with a little bit of help with this one.

Eg: http://website/?s=lorem&paged=2&paged=1&paged=3 this just keeps getting longer and longer dependent on how many links are clicked. Am I just going to have to write a string manipulation function to sort this out?

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:09:15 +0000

Works brilliantly. So simple.