WP-PageNavi

What the author says it does

Want to replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with some page links?

This plugin provides the wp_pagenavi() template tag which generates fancy pagination links.

Much of the 2.x line was the work of scribu, whose write-ups on using it with secondary queries are still the ones the FAQ below points at. The plugin icon is by SimpleIcon from Flaticon.

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Usage

In your theme, you need to find calls to next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() and replace them.

In the Twentyten theme, it looks like this:

<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( __( '<span class="meta-nav">&larr;</span> Older posts', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div> <div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>

You would replace those two lines with this:

<?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>

For multipart pages, you would look for code like this:

<?php wp_link_pages( ... ); ?>

and replace it with this:

<?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'type' => 'multipart' ) ); ?>

Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> PageNavi for configuration.

Changing the CSS

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

Latest changelog entry

3.0.1

• CHANGED: The settings migration now runs early on every request instead of only when wp-admin is loaded, so a site whose dashboard is never opened still picks up its settings after an update
• FIXED: Network-activating the plugin upgraded only the site the click happened on. Every other site on the network kept serving its front end with the default settings — its real, pre-3.0.0 settings sat unread until somebody opened that site’s wp-admin, which also means nothing was lost and any site that looked wrong has already healed itself. Activation now walks every site on the network