Get paged outside of loop?

Question

Is it possible to get paged outside of the standard WP loop?

I already use this inside the loop:

<?php if ( $paged >= 2 ) { ?>  Some text for the 2nd page on up  <?php } ?>

But I'd like to be able to echo some text outside the loop on all pages two and greater. Possible? Or a better way?

Answer 1

Here you go:

<?php
if ( is_paged() )
  echo 'some text';

See http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Paged_Page

Answer 2

You can make a "second" Loop like this:

<?php $posts = query_posts($query_string); if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
  if ($paged >= 2) {echo "your content";}
endwhile; endif; ?>

Now you can use the $paged where ever you want.

Like in the comments quoted this was not the best solution. It was really quick and dirty.

After a little test: You can use $paged outside the loop. But you can query the active page where you want in the code with

<?php get_query_var('paged'); ?>

Because the active page is a parameter of the active URL. For your question:

if (get_query_var('paged') >=2) {
  echo "text for pages from 2 and up";
} else {
  echo "text for the first page";
}