The posts pagination
If you don't like the navigation of the previous page of the next page, but want to display it in page numbered order, you don't need a custom plugin. WordPress has this feature!
Note that if you use it on a simple loop or if you use it on wp_query, the code looks different.
// for a simple loop
<?php
the_posts_pagination( array(
'prev_text' => __( '<', 'textdomain' ),
'next_text' => __( '>', 'textdomain' ),
) );
?>
// for wp_query
<?php
$GLOBALS['wp_query']->max_num_pages = $query->max_num_pages;
the_posts_pagination( array(
'prev_text' => __( '<', 'textdomain' ),
'next_text' => __( '>', 'textdomain' ),
) ); ?>
// full paginated wp_query loop
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 12,
'cat' => 1,
'paged'=>$paged
);
$query = new WP_Query($args); ?>
<?php if ( $query->have_posts() ) : while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>
<h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”<?php the_title();?>”><?php the_title();?></a></h2>
<?php the_content('read more') ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php
$GLOBALS['wp_query']->max_num_pages = $query->max_num_pages;
the_posts_pagination( array(
'prev_text' => __( '<', 'textdomain' ),
'next_text' => __( '>', 'textdomain' ),
) ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
