Justin Tadlock

<p>The <em>Query Posts</em> widget was written to allow users that don’t know their way around PHP to easily show posts in any way they’d like.  It’s like having a cool WordPress developer as a friend ready to do your bidding.  Seriously.</p>
<p>The widget has over 40 options to choose from.  You can list posts by category, tag, custom taxonomies, author, date, time, name, or anything you can imagine.  You can choose to show the full content, excerpts, or even a simple list.  You can order the posts in all sorts of ways.  Oh, and you can even show pages.</p>
<p>This is the widget that keeps users out of the code and gives them the ability to display items on their site how they want.</p>


Query Posts

A WordPress widget that gives you unlimited control over showing posts and pages.

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Lester Chan

<p>Want to replace the old <em>← Older posts | Newer posts →</em> links with some page links?</p>
<p>This plugin provides the <code>wp_pagenavi()</code> template tag which generates fancy pagination links.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>In your theme, you need to find calls to next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() and replace them.</p>
<p>In the Twentyten theme, it looks like this:</p>
<pre><code><div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( __( '<span class="meta-nav">&larr;</span> Older posts', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer posts <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></div>
</code></pre>
<p>You would replace those two lines with this:</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>For multipart pages, you would look for code like this:</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_link_pages( ... ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>and replace it with this:</p>
<pre><code><?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'type' => 'multipart' ) ); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Go to <em>WP-Admin -> Settings -> PageNavi</em> for configuration.</p>
<h3>Changing the CSS</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Changing Class Names</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<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>
<p>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.</p>


WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.

Query Posts vs WP-PageNavi