Pagination can be considered as navigation where one can navigate from one page to another for exploring the site’s contents. Pagination is quite vital and important factor for every website as it helps you display your website contents and provides easy to understand page recherché to the search bots.
As we all know WordPress comes with default pagination with the “Older posts” and “Newer posts” links at the bottom of the page when you want to navigate to the older entries.
But if your site has myriad of posts and content then you definitely need a better pagination interface for your visitors. These days, most of the modern WordPress theme comes with built in pagination system which is good enough for users as well as search engines.
But still if you are not satisfied with default or built in pagination system you can go with some useful WordPress pagination plugins available at the store.
For this roundup we are going to showcase 10 Best WordPress Pagination Plugins that will help you to build a new and visually stunning paging interface for your websites, and help you to deliver a better end user experience to your visitors.
So, what are you waiting for? Let’s explore WordPress Pagination Plugins.
1. WP – PageNavi
It is one of the widely used (more than 1 million) and popular pagination plugin available at WordPress store.
After installing and activating the plugin in your website, you will find the plugin settings in the Settings -> PageNavi page.
From the settings page, you can customize the label for various portions of the text for some pages, current page text, text for first, last, previous and next page. You can also assign custom signs for the previous and next indicators.
2. Simple Pagination
Simple Pagination allows setting up an advanced pagination for posts and comments. You have an easier navigation on your WordPress. Simple Pagination has 6 stylesheets for the pagination : CSS 3, Flickr, Digg, Sabrus.us, Green and Grey.
In ‘Posts Advanced Settings‘ page, you will find options to enable navigation for all pages. There are also options to choose the number of page links to display before or after the current page, the larger page numbers and the larger page multiple. If you receive lots of comments on your blog posts, you can enable pagination for comments too.
3. WP Paginate
Another popular plugin which you should have in your arsenal is WP-Paginate which is simple and flexible pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.
After installing and activating the plugin, you will find the settings options in the Settings -> WP-Paginate page.
If you want to add custom elements before or after the pagination, you can do that from the ‘Advanced Settings‘ section. The ‘Page Range‘ option enables you to choose how many page links should be displayed before and after the current page. The ‘Page Gap‘ option allows you to select the minimum number of links before showing the ellipsis(…).
4. Carbon Pagination
Carbon Pagination is a handy WordPress library for building all kinds of paginations. It provides the theme and plugin developers an easy way to build and implement highly customizable paginations, specifically tailored to their needs.
This plugin supports 4 types of pagination (you can easily extend the library if you need to create a new type of pagination).
5. WP Post Break Pagination
Still not satisfied with above plugins?
Well here you go again, WP Post Break Pagination comes with 26 different pagination styles with unlimited customization options. Besides the simple pagination styles, there are also styles like an arrow with numbering, an icon with numbering, pagination without numbering, magic and animated. Each of these styles has multiple variations too.
Once you install and activate the plugin, a new menu item titled ‘WP Post Break Pagination‘will be created in the admin menu. You will find all the pagination styles in the ‘Pagination Categories‘tab of that page. For each style, you can choose the font family, font size, font style, color, background color, link border color, etc. As you make the changes, you will be able to see the preview on the right side.
6. Pagination by BestWebSoft
The Pagination plugin allows you to add a custom pagination block to your webpages. The block is added automatically on the following pages: blog, search, archive, category, tags, and author.
All you have to do is to choose the position of the pagination block and configure its appearance on the plugin settings page.
7. Animated Infinite Scroll WordPress Plugin
“Animated Infinite Scroll” is a WordPress plugin to convert default pagination into Infinite Scroll or Ajax pagination. When a user scrolls towards the bottom of the page, the next page of posts is automatically retrieved and appended. This means they never need to click “Next Page”.
And lastly, the simple pagination style will have the usual page numbers. As AJAX also powers it, the next page contents will load on the same page. Choosing different animation styles for each pagination mode is possible. You can customize the loading image too.
8. Advanced Post Pagination
Advanced Post Pagination is another choice you can use for beautifying your pages and contents. It allows you to put text and images in pagination buttons and it comes with 5 awesome button layouts.
After activating the plugin just go to Edit/Add Post page then select a part of content/text you’d like to split as a new subPage and click on ACP button icon ( black “[>]” icon is located next to other TinyMCE button icons.). You can also add this shortcode manually without using ACP button icon and popup window.
9. Ajax Pagination and Infinite Scroll
This plugin works where you’d usually display paged content including on posts, pages, custom post types and WooCommerce.
There are 3 paging types to choose from; infinite scroll that automatically loads new posts as the user reaches the bottom of the screen, a load more button that when clicked loads new posts and pagination that displays normal pagination but loads the next page with Ajax. When using pagination the browser back and forward button still operate as expected.
10. Page – Links Plus
Page-Links Plus is a WordPress plugin that helps users paginate content easily & efficiently.
It adds a “view as single page” option to WordPress page lists. (Natively, WordPress page lists do not include this option.).
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