WordPress Homepage Pagination

Ever wanted to add Pagination to your homepage list of blogs or your Archive? Well now you can.

Here is a snippet of getting pagination right to your theme file.

function numbered_page_nav($prelabel = '', $nxtlabel = '', $pages_to_show = 6, $always_show = false) {
	global $request, $posts_per_page, $wpdb, $paged;

	$custom_range = round($pages_to_show/2);
	if (!is_single()) {
		if(!is_category()) {
			preg_match('#FROM\s(.*)\sORDER BY#siU', $request, $matches);
		}
		else {
			preg_match('#FROM\s(.*)\sGROUP BY#siU', $request, $matches);
		}
		$blog_post_count = $matches[1];
		$numposts = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ID) FROM $blog_post_count");
		$max_page = ceil($numposts /$posts_per_page);
		if(empty($paged)) {
			$paged = 1;
		}
		if($max_page > 1 || $always_show) {
			echo '
';
			if ($paged >= ($pages_to_show-2)) {
				echo '
1
...
';
			}
			for($i = $paged - $custom_range; $i <= $paged + $custom_range; $i++) {
				if ($i >= 1 && $i <= $max_page) {
					if($i == $paged) {
						echo '
' . $i . '
';
					}
					else {
						echo '
'.$i.'
';
					}
				}
			}
			if (($paged+$custom_range) < ($max_page)) {
				echo '
...
'.$max_page.'
';
			}
			echo '
Page ' . $paged . ' of ' . $max_page . '
';
		}
	}
}

just stick the above code onto your functions.php and replace the post navigation section on your theme with this…

numbered_page_nav();