Perfect Pagination
Monday, March 17th, 2008 1:33 pm by
davidcubed 
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I recently saw a post on Woork where they talked about the perfect pagination using CSS, and the first thing I noticed was that they were showing off what they label as the Digg-like structure that I use on most of my blogs.
I have always hated the previous, and next page links that most WordPress themes come with, as it doesn’t tell anything about which direction you will be going once you are off the front page.
Will previous bring me to where I was previous, or to even older posts? It has always been something that has annoyed me.
The tutorial on how to structure the xhtml and css of the navigation is really interesting for those of us building our own applications, but if you want to add such a navigation to your WordPress blog, you will want to check out WP-PageNavi, a WordPress plugin that adds the pagination navigation to your theme.
It is good for your users, and for search engines to pour through when indexing your site.
If you are developing your own web based application or website, please make sure you include pagination through your posts, data or other information and check out Woork and their Perfect Pagination post.
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I recently discussed this at Posh CSS in regards to the future of pagination and how I see this moving forward, in a different direction from the norm that these plugins generate. A bit far fetched but new methods are always appreciated.
That is not ‘perfect pagination’. Changing ‘next’ and ‘previous’ to ‘older’ and ‘newer’ counters your argument. However, I agree, it’s not great. But, neither is the Digg method.
I wish someone would develop a plugin which not only has the ‘Digg’ style, but also a ‘Go to [insert page number]’ field too. THAT would be perfect pagination!