Pagination in pages

  • I posted on the Blocksy theme forum asking how to change a couple of formatting problems with pagination. Here’s what I posted:

    I am using pagination quite heavily on my site to help my readers not have to do too much scrolling, and it should help with page loading, too.

    My problems are:

    • The pagination choices are only displayed at the end of the page. It would be nice if I could place them at the beginning of the page, too.
    • The pagination choices are just a list of pages; no Previous Page, or Next Page. I would like that option, too.

    I have tried a couple of pagination plugins, but they didn’t seem to work. At least, I couldn’t get the pagination to change its format.

    Thanks for any assistance you may provide.

    They tried to help me with the second issue, saying the first issue was not possible, at least yet.

    They told me that they had support for four pagination types – standard, a prev/next layout, a load more button mechanism and infinite loading pages. And they do, but it only works for blog posts. It has no effect on pages, where I am using pagination. They said:

    That page pagination feature is something that’s not provided from our end, but is a part of the core WordPress software. The only thing that we do to it is stylise it to look consistent with our other elements.

    Sadly, there are no easy solutions to change this from our end, as it wouldn’t be correct to change WordPress’ defaults – plus from what I know, some of these modifications aren’t even allowed by the WordPress store rules.

    Is there any possibility that someone could cause the WordPress pagination formatting to be available for pages as well as posts. It seems strange that this is a restriction.

    Thanks for any help you can provide…

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter bryanhiggs

    (@bryanhiggs)

    Regarding pagination location, it occurred to me that it might be possible for the pagination block provide options:

    • To provide the actual pagination format, and whether or not to insert a new page.

    If the pagination block could be used without inserting a new page, then it could be used to insert the pagination at the top of a page (or elsewhere).

    Thread Starter bryanhiggs

    (@bryanhiggs)

    Any response? From anyone?

    Note this is not a Blocksy theme specific question. It concerns WordPress.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    @bryanhiggs — please do not “bump” topics by adding replies that don’t add useful information. I realize that saying it’s not a theme specific question could be called “useful information”, but generally replies with content such as “Anyone?” are intended as a bump attempt.

    Either way, bumping doesn’t have the affect you’re after. It does not move your topic back to the top of the list. Additionally, adding replies could make your topic look like someone else has already responded and some people who might be able to help you might simply skip past your topic. If nothing else, bumping is against our forum guidelines.

    Having pagination appear at both top and bottom is theme dependent. If your theme doesn’t offer such an option, either find one that does or customize your preferred theme’s templates to include top pagination.

    WP pages were never intended to be paginated, thus nearly all built-in pagination functions will not work with pages. It is possible to paginate nearly anything with paginate_links(). The problem will then be creating pagination URLs that mean something to WP. You’d likely need to create companion custom queries to properly fetch paginated pages as desired.

    Thread Starter bryanhiggs

    (@bryanhiggs)

    please do not “bump” topics by adding replies that don’t add useful information. I realize that saying it’s not a theme specific question could be called “useful information”, but generally replies with content such as “Anyone?” are intended as a bump attempt.

    Either way, bumping doesn’t have the affect you’re after. It does not move your topic back to the top of the list. Additionally, adding replies could make your topic look like someone else has already responded and some people who might be able to help you might simply skip past your topic. If nothing else, bumping is against our forum guidelines.

    Well, thanks.

    My ‘anyone’? was a response to lack of response. I wasn’t aware that one was not supposed to do that, and I certainly don’t think that my response deserved your comments. I was quite polite, and had no intention of ‘bumping’, just making sure that my post wasn’t being forgotten or ignored. Were you having a bad day?

    Having pagination appear at both top and bottom is theme dependent. If your theme doesn’t offer such an option, either find one that does or customize your preferred theme’s templates to include top pagination.

    OK, I’ll check back with my theme developers. They have been quite helpful.

    WP pages were never intended to be paginated, thus nearly all built-in pagination functions will not work with pages. It is possible to paginate nearly anything with?paginate_links(). The problem will then be creating pagination URLs that mean something to WP. You’d likely need to create companion custom queries to properly fetch paginated pages as desired.

    Just because you think pages don’t need to be paginated doesn’t mean that it’s not useful. I have a number of long pages, and pagination helps me allow my readers to absorb the material in reasonable chunks, plus it helps with page loading. I’m not doing anything fancy; just breaking up my pages, and looking for a way of changing the way the pagination looks.

    Is there another place where I can ask whether such things are possible in the future? I did not intend to ruffle feathers, just trying to get information.

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