How to Add Numeric Pagination in Your WordPress Theme without plugin

Default WordPress only comes with the “next page” and “previous page” links to navigate between different blog overview pages. If you happen to have a blog with a lot of posts or simply want to offer a better user experience I would recommend to remove those links and replace them with a pagination like most people are using in their templates. The goal is to replace the default Older and Newer pagination links at the bottom of archive pages with easy to navigate page numbers. How to add Numeric Pagination Manually in Your WordPress Themes Add the below code in theme functions.php

<?php
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/* Wpforwordpress.blogspot.com -Wordpress pagination Without a plugin*/
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
function wpnumeric_pagination() {

if( is_singular() )
return;

global $wp_query;

/** Stop execution if there's only 1 page */
if( $wp_query->max_num_pages <= 1 )
return;

$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? absint( get_query_var( 'paged' ) ) : 1;
$max = intval( $wp_query->max_num_pages );

/** Add current page to the array */
if ( $paged >= 1 )
$links[] = $paged;

/** Add the pages around the current page to the array */
if ( $paged >= 3 ) {
$links[] = $paged - 1;
$links[] = $paged - 2;
}

if ( ( $paged + 2 ) <= $max ) {
$links[] = $paged + 2;
$links[] = $paged + 1;
}

echo '<div class="navigation"><ul>' . "\n";

/** Previous Post Link */
if ( get_previous_posts_link() )
printf( '<li>%s</li>' . "\n", get_previous_posts_link() );

/** Link to first page, plus ellipses if necessary */
if ( ! in_array( 1, $links ) ) {
$class = 1 == $paged ? ' class="active"' : '';

printf( '<li%s><a href="%s">%s</a></li>' . "\n", $class, esc_url( get_pagenum_link( 1 ) ), '1' );

if ( ! in_array( 2, $links ) )
echo '<li>…</li>';
}

/** Link to current page, plus 2 pages in either direction if necessary */
sort( $links );
foreach ( (array) $links as $link ) {
$class = $paged == $link ? ' class="active"' : '';
printf( '<li%s><a href="%s">%s</a></li>' . "\n", $class, esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $link ) ), $link );
}

/** Link to last page, plus ellipses if necessary */
if ( ! in_array( $max, $links ) ) {
if ( ! in_array( $max - 1, $links ) )
echo '<li>…</li>' . "\n";

$class = $paged == $max ? ' class="active"' : '';
printf( '<li%s><a href="%s">%s</a></li>' . "\n", $class, esc_url( get_pagenum_link( $max ) ), $max );
}

/** Next Post Link */
if ( get_next_posts_link() )
printf( '<li>%s</li>' . "\n", get_next_posts_link() );

echo '</ul></div>' . "\n";

}

 

?>

To add this in your templates, you will have to add the following template tag in your theme’s index.php, archive.php, category.php, and any other archive page template.

 

<?php if(function_exists('wpnumeric_pagination')) wpnumeric_pagination(); ?>