Comments on: Better WordPress pagination

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.

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:58:50 +0000

Hi Ayman, you mean the number of total pages? Or to abbreviate the pagination numbers when there’s a lot, like this?

« previous 1 2 3 4 ... 23 24 25 next »

Abbreviating the pagination numbers is certainly something I’ll try and get round to one day – should be pretty easy. Maybe one of the current pagination plugins does that?

Regarding limiting the total number of pages, these pages should help:

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/04/13/define-your-own-wordpress-loop-using-wp_query/

http://digwp.com/2009/12/limit-posts-without-plugin/

By: ayman

ayman — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:36:14 +0000

how can i limit number of pages that displayed ?not all pages

By: Valid Information

Valid Information — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:38:14 +0000

Looks complicated but very useful information

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:29:56 +0000

Hi Sean, from the code you posted it’s not really clear what your issue is. Could you be more specific as to what the issue is? (Please don’t post more code unless necessary, it needed a lot of tidying up!)

If you don’t understand the code enough to explain what the problem is, you might be better off with a plugin – check out the link at the top of this post.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:19:29 +0000

Hello, I'm trying to improve my search.php page with your code. No more than 5 posts should be displayed per page. Here's the code before yours was added:


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Here's how I've added yours:


query_vars["paged"];
	if ( !$page ) $page = 1;
	$qs = $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] ? "?".$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] : "";
	// Only necessary if there's more posts than posts-per-page
	if ( $query->found_posts > $query->query_vars["posts_per_page"] ) {
		echo '';
		// Previous link?
		if ( $page > 1 ) {
			echo '« previous';
		}
		// Loop through pages
		for ( $i=1; $i max_num_pages; $i++ ) {
			// Current page or linked page?
			if ( $i == $page ) {
				echo ''.$i.'';
			} else {
				echo ''.$i.'';
			}
		}
		// Next link?
		if ( $page max_num_pages ) {
			echo 'next »';
		}
		echo '';
	}
} ?>
                

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This is my first attempt at pagination, but I've used Wordpress for 5-6 projects now.

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:49:19 +0000

Tim, you would just call the function where you want the pagination controls. The basic call (say, after The Loop in index.php) would be: pagination( $wp_query, "/" ); If often include one before The Loop too, but set to only appear if not on the first page: if ( $paged ) slt_pagination( $wp_query, "/" ); For archive.php, you'll probably have to set up the $baseURL parameter dynamically, depending on the type of archive being shown. (Hint: the WP functions get_category_link() and get_month_link() help out a lot!) If you're not following, then it's possible that a plugin might be your cup of tea. For the most part I'm addressing theme developers here. Good luck!