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Admin Posts Navigation solves a common WordPress admin workflow problem: having to go back to the post list every time you want to edit the next or previous post.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Seamless Navigation: Navigate directly between posts without returning to the post list</li>
<li>Customizable Sorting: Choose between Date Published, Alphabetical, or Post ID sorting</li>
<li>User Preferences: Each user’s sort preferences are saved per post type</li>
<li>Universal Support: Works with posts, pages, and all custom post types automatically</li>
<li>Dual Editor Support: Full compatibility with both Classic Editor and Gutenberg Block Editor</li>
<li>Smart Ordering: Uses appropriate default ordering (date for posts, alphabetical for pages)</li>
<li>Position Tracking: Shows your current position (e.g., “Position: 3 of 15 posts”)</li>
<li>Security First: Rate limiting, nonce verification, and capability checks</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: Intelligent caching and optimized database queries</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Multiple filter hooks for customization</li>
</ul>
How It Works:
In the Classic Editor, navigation buttons appear below the post title with a sorting dropdown that lets you choose between Date Published, Alphabetical, or Post ID ordering.
In Gutenberg, a “Post Navigation” panel appears in the Document Settings sidebar with Previous/Next buttons and a sorting dropdown for customizing the navigation order.
Sorting Options:
<ul>
<li>Date Published: Navigate by publication date (newest first for posts, oldest first for pages)</li>
<li>Alphabetical: Navigate by post title in alphabetical order (A-Z)</li>
<li>Post ID: Navigate by WordPress post ID in ascending order</li>
</ul>
Each user’s sorting preference is remembered per post type, so you can have different sorting for posts vs. pages vs. custom post types.
Perfect For:
<ul>
<li>Content managers editing multiple posts in sequence</li>
<li>Bloggers reviewing and updating existing content</li>
<li>Developers working with custom post types</li>
<li>Anyone who finds the default WordPress admin workflow tedious</li>
</ul>
The plugin automatically detects all your custom post types and provides navigation for any content type you can edit.
<h3>Developer Hooks</h3>
Filters:
<ul>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_excluded_types</code> – Exclude specific post types from navigation</li>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_orderby</code> – Customize ordering for specific post types </li>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_order</code> – Customize sort direction for specific post types</li>
<li><code>twf_admin_posts_navigation_query_args</code> – Modify the query arguments for finding posts</li>
</ul>
Example Usage:
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
// Exclude a custom post type 
add_filter(‘twf_admin_posts_navigation_excluded_types’, function($excluded) { 
 $excluded[] = ‘my_private_post_type’; 
 return $excluded; 
});
// Custom ordering for events 
add_filter(‘twf_admin_posts_navigation_orderby’, function($orderby, $post_type) { 
 if ($post_type === ‘event’) { 
 return ‘meta_value’; 
 } 
 return $orderby; 
}, 10, 2);
// Navigate only through featured posts 
add_filter(‘twf_admin_posts_navigation_query_args’, function($args, $current_post) { 
 if ($current_post->post_type === ‘post’) { 
 $args[‘meta_query’] = array( 
 array( 
 ‘key’ => ‘featured_post’, 
 ‘value’ => ‘1’, 
 ‘compare’ => ‘=’ 
 ) 
 ); 
 } 
 return $args; 
}, 10, 2); 
 `

Admin Posts Navigation

Navigate between posts and pages without returning to the post list. Works with Classic Editor, Gutenberg, and all Custom Post Types.

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Lester Chan

Want to replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with some page links?
This plugin provides the <code>wp_pagenavi()</code> template tag which generates fancy pagination links.
<h3>Usage</h3>
In your theme, you need to find calls to next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() and replace them.
In the Twentyten theme, it looks like this:
<pre><code><div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( __( '&larr; Older posts', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts &rarr;', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
</code></pre>
You would replace those two lines with this:
<pre><code><?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
</code></pre>
For multipart pages, you would look for code like this:
<pre><code><?php wp_link_pages( ... ); ?>
</code></pre>
and replace it with this:
<pre><code><?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'type' => 'multipart' ) ); ?>
</code></pre>
Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> PageNavi for configuration.
<h3>Changing the CSS</h3>
If you need to configure the CSS style of WP-PageNavi, you can copy the <code>pagenavi-css.css</code> file from the plugin directory to your theme’s directory and make your modifications there. This way, you won’t lose your changes when you update the plugin.
Alternatively, you can uncheck the “Use pagenavi.css?” option from the settings page and add the styles to your theme’s style.css file directly.
<h3>Changing Class Names</h3>
There are <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Filter" rel="nofollow ugc">filters</a> that can be used to change the default class names that are assigned to page navigation elements.
<h4>Filters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_pages</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_first</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_previouspostslink</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_extend</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_smaller</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_page</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_current</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_larger</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_nextpostslink</code></li>
<li><code>wp_pagenavi_class_last</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Filter Usage</h4>
<pre><code>// Simple Usage - 1 callback per filter
add_filter('wp_pagenavi_class_previouspostslink', 'theme_pagination_previouspostslink_class');
add_filter('wp_pagenavi_class_nextpostslink', 'theme_pagination_nextpostslink_class');
add_filter('wp_pagenavi_class_page', 'theme_pagination_page_class');

function theme_pagination_previouspostslink_class($class_name) {
 return 'pagination__control-link pagination__control-link--previous';
}

function theme_pagination_nextpostslink_class($class_name) {
 return 'pagination__control-link pagination__control-link--next';
}

function theme_pagination_page_class($class_name) {
 return 'pagination__current-page';
}


// More Concise Usage - 1 callback for all filters
add_filter('wp_pagenavi_class_previouspostslink', 'theme_pagination_class');
add_filter('wp_pagenavi_class_nextpostslink', 'theme_pagination_class');
add_filter('wp_pagenavi_class_page', 'theme_pagination_class');

function theme_pagination_class($class_name) {
 switch($class_name) {
 case 'previouspostslink':
 $class_name = 'pagination__control-link pagination__control-link--previous';
 break;
 case 'nextpostslink':
 $class_name = 'pagination__control-link pagination__control-link--next';
 break;
 case 'page':
 $class_name = 'pagination__current'
 break;
 }
 return $class_name;
}
</code></pre>
<h3>Development</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-pagenavi" title="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-pagenavi" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-pagenavi</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin icon by <a href="http://www.simpleicon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">SimpleIcon</a> from <a href="http://www.flaticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Flaticon</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donations</h3>
I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.

Admin Posts Navigation vs WP-PageNavi