How-to - Numbered Pagination for your Wordpress Blog

There are a bunch of awesome Wordpress Plugins that can do Numbered Pagination for your Wordpress powered blog. However, it may be noted that Wordpress have the option to do it without relying on a plugin.

Let’s do a clean, nice and simple numbered pagination as seen on this blog. You can choose to have either the light or the dark version.

Here is the code modified from Wordpress Reference doc on Pagination. The code is pretty self-explanatory. Just put it where you want your pagination to appear.

<?php global $wp_query;
    $big = 99999999;
    echo paginate_links(array(
        'base' ?> str_replace($big, '%#%', get_pagenum_link($big)),
        'format' => '?paged=%#%',
        'total' => $wp_query->max_num_pages,
        'current' => max(1, get_query_var('paged')),
        'show_all' => false,
        'end_size' => 2,
        'mid_size' => 3,
        'prev_next' => true,
        'prev_text' => 'Prev',
        'next_text' => 'Next',
        'type' => 'list'
    ));
?>

CSS3 Paginateion Style)

Feel free to use it this version or tweak it from the original - Pagination Styles Demo (Source on Github). The source have the codes for both light and dark version.

ul.page-numbers {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 1em auto;
  padding: 0;
  text-align: center;
  color: #555555;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-size: 90%;
}

ul.page-numbers li {
  display: inline;
}

ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers {
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -o-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
  background-color: #676767;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, color-stop(0%, #f9f9f9), color-stop(100%, #eaeaea));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#f9f9f9, #eaeaea);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#f9f9f9, #eaeaea);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#f9f9f9, #eaeaea);
  background-image: linear-gradient(#f9f9f9, #eaeaea);
  margin: 2px;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  display: inline-block;
  border-top: 1px solid #fff;
  text-decoration: none !important;
  color: #555555 !important;
  font-size: smaller !important;
  text-shadow: white 0 1px 0;
}
ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers:first-child, ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers.first {
  margin-left: 0;
}
ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers:last-child, ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers.last {
  margin-right: 0;
}
ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers:hover, ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers:focus {
  color: #333333;
  border-color: #fff;
  background-color: #fdfdfd;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, color-stop(0%, #fefefe), color-stop(100%, #fafafa));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#fefefe, #fafafa);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#fefefe, #fafafa);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#fefefe, #fafafa);
  background-image: linear-gradient(#fefefe, #fafafa);
}
ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers.more {
  -webkit-box-shadow: none;
  -moz-box-shadow: none;
  box-shadow: none;
  border: 0 none !important;
  background: transparent !important;
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-right: 0;
}
ul.page-numbers a.page-numbers.active {
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
  -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
  border-color: #505050 !important;
  color: #f2f2f2 !important;
  text-shadow: black 0 1px 0;
  background-color: #676767;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, color-stop(0%, #5f5f5f), color-stop(100%, #5c5c5c));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  background-image: linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
}
ul.page-numbers .prev:before {
  content: "\2039";
  padding-right: 0.5em;
}
ul.page-numbers .next:after {
  content: "\203A";
  padding-left: 0.5em;
}
ul.page-numbers .dots {
  -webkit-box-shadow: none;
  -moz-box-shadow: none;
  box-shadow: none;
  border: 0 none !important;
  background: transparent !important;
  color: #999999 !important;
  margin-left: 0.25em;
  margin-right: 0.25em;
}
ul.page-numbers .current {
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -o-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
  -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75);
  background-color: #676767;
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, color-stop(0%, #5f5f5f), color-stop(100%, #5c5c5c));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  background-image: linear-gradient(#5f5f5f, #5c5c5c);
  margin: 2px;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  display: inline-block;
  border-top: 1px solid #fff;
  text-decoration: none !important;
  font-size: smaller !important;
  border-color: #505050 !important;
  color: #f2f2f2 !important;
  text-shadow: black 0 1px 0;
}

That’s it. A nice numbered pagination for your Wordpress Blog without the need of a plugin.