How to implement pagination eg. newer - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - older

Question

How can I implement pagination like shown in the title perhaps something similar to most sites

Answer 1

I can across this awesome tutorial just the other day:

http://design.sparklette.net/teaches/how-to-add-wordpress-pagination-without-a-plugin/

which is a modified version of this one:

http://www.kriesi.at/archives/how-to-build-a-wordpress-post-pagination-without-plugin

Answer 2

You can use WP-PageNavi http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/

Answer 3

I had the exact same problem. Here are 2 solutions, were the first needs some coding from your side and the second is "hit and run" plus is semantically correct: A list.

1. paginate_link() function
2. my "easy pagination deamon" plugin
   -> offers a template tag (you can change the name) like oxo_pagination( $range); that outputs the following:
   [first][previous][1][2][3][4][5][next][last]
   With the $range attribute you can tell how many page links you want to have (seen from current one) and you also got a small stylesheet that gives you the ability to target every part of the pagination plus the current one.