How to check if I'm on the last page of posts?

Question

I want to display some text on the last page that isn't displayed on the other pages.

For example, on category pages: url.com/category/categoryname/page/6

or last page of all posts listed on the homepage: url.com/page/9

How do I check if I'm on the last page?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The WP_Query object contains a max_num_pages field which contains how many pages of posts there are. You can compare the current page number with it. (This is how get_next_posts_link() does it.)

global $wp_query;
$current_page = $wp_query->get( 'paged' );
if ( ! $current_page ) {
    $current_page = 1;
}
if ( $current_page == $wp_query->max_num_pages ) {
    // You are on the last page
}

Answer 2

In short: If you want to learn more about pagination, I've written a Plugin for that.

In detail: You can take a look at the global $paged; global. But best would be to digg into the plugin code i linked and look at the render() function.