Only show Previous & Next button in Pagination

Question

I'm trying to alter the pagination of WP so that it shows ONLY a Previous and/or Next button, and NOT the pages in between.

Using this snippet from the Codex:

<?php
global $wp_query;

$big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer

echo paginate_links( array(
'base' => str_replace( $big, '%#%', esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $big ) ) ),
'format' => '?paged=%#%',
'current' => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages
) );
?>

And these parameters:

<?php $args = array(
'base'         => '%_%',
'format'       => '?page=%#%',
'total'        => 1,
'current'      => 0,
'show_all'     => False,
'end_size'     => 1,
'mid_size'     => 2,
'prev_next'    => True,
'prev_text'    => __('« Previous'),
'next_text'    => __('Next »'),
'type'         => 'plain',
'add_args'     => False,
'add_fragment' => ''
); ?>

But I can't get it right! It always shows: 1 2 next or previous 1 2 And I'm trying to get this: next previous

Can this be done by altering the parameters?

Answer 1

If you don't want to use pagination on your site, don't use paginate links function. The right way to achieve this is to use next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() functions. These output just the link to next/prev posts like you wished.

Check these: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/next_posts_link http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/previous_posts_link

next_posts_link( 'Older posts' );
previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts' );