I’ve found in very useful and decided to improve it a little.
Now it shows just a range of pages before and after the actual one and also 2 links, one for the first and one for the last page available, but only when the current page is not too close to one of them.
I’ve made it work both if the site uses “pretty permalinks” or the standard permalinks structure.

I’ve pasted the function, together with a small helper function on pastebin, just in case you were curious and wanted to give it a look..

I hope this is useful to others as your one was useful to me..

bye ;)

I am wondering, of course, if there is an expanded way to paginate now that things like Jquery Tabs are popular on the home page of various WordPress themes.

For instance, in a classified ads theme which also uses some modified wp code to paginate, there is a default index page Tab display of various queries.

Tab one might be a query run for the “Latest Ads”–if the query is set for, say, 30 ads, then this tab will line up the short “posts” of ads and show “Page 1 of 3″ at the bottom of that tab view. If I click on the number 2 the link will be “/page/2/” and the next set of listings appears inside the same tab.

However, the PROBLEM starts when I click Tab Two—–If Tab 2 “Featured Listings” (using “sticky”) is clicked then I see the listings (that are all marked “sticky”) and at the bottom of the tab I may see “Page 1 of 4″. But to click, say, number 2 will produce the url “/page/2″ again–the same url as in Tab One.

On clicking “2″ in the “Featured Listings” Tab the resulting listings will now be thrown back to the Tab one view and I will be looking at the Tab One “Just Listed” second page of listings.

Some people have said that only an Ajaxed version can help create separate Tabs pagination that is correct for the query that produces those types of listings.

I am thinking that there must be a function that could run through the queries in the Tabs block of code and produce at one time the Complete list of “/page/1….infinity/”, accumulating all of the paginations for 2 or 3 tabs of separate queries, whether by iterating “/page_just_listed/3/” and “/page_featured/4/”, or by creating , or,

just creating the Total pagination in one string for all three tabs in a way that while we are in Tab two the pagination stays in the Tab two view while “/page/12/” is being served.

It is the jquery Tabs invention that creates a need for a pagination that matches its needs.

Steve, can you think of a way to do this without Ajax?

Thank you for your consideration!

I’ve had situations where I need to pass a custom loop query, so that facility is there if needed. Just pass $wp_query if you want.

$wp_query is globally available, i might be wrong but i can’t think of any situation where you’d need to pass the query.

I don’t know if this cased the earlier issue but default values for arguments can’t be functions, they have to be constants in php, i’m confused at how this worked at all as that usually throws a fatal error.

The function won’t work with default permalinks.