Title: Logarithmic Pagination
Author: Jonas
Published: <strong>April 21, 2013</strong>
Last modified: April 22, 2013

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# Logarithmic Pagination

 By [Jonas](https://profiles.wordpress.org/uargh/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-lopa.0.1.3.zip)

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## Description

This will give you an advanced pagination to distribute your link-juice more evenly
across your paginated paged. It also provides a better choice of navigation to the
user to explore and find your content.

You can turn the pagination on/off separately for:

 * homepage
 * search results
 * category archives
 * date archives
 * tag archives
 * author archives

Or implement it directly into your theme using `<?php the_wp_lopa('pages_below');?
>`.

You can also choose if you want it to be displayed before and/or after the loop 
content.

The plugin is currently available in English and German. If you want to help translate
it, just write me an email. Help is much appreciated!

For more information visit the [plugin website](http://www.k308.de/labs/logarithmic-pagination).

#### Credits

This plugin is based on the idea found in the following (German) article by Nikolas
Schmidt-Voigt: [Webseitenstruktur und Paginierung für SEO](http://www.kawumba.de/webseitenstruktur-und-paginierung-fuer-seo/)&
a
 [discussion](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7835752/how-to-do-page-navigation-for-many-many-pages-logarithmic-page-navigation)
on stackoverflow.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * An example of the generated output
 * [[
 * This is the Settings page of wp-lopa

## Installation

 1.  Unzip wp-lopa.zip.
 2.  Upload `wp-lopa` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 3.  Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress
 4.  Change Settings on `Settings` -> `Log. Pagination` and/or implement template-tag
     respectively
 5.  Remove the original pagination code from the template files. Depending on your
     themes structure they can be located in files named `loop.php`, `index.php`, `
     archive.php`, `date.php`, `search.php`, `author.php` or others.
 6.  Add some CSS to make it all pretty. To make it easier here is some sample-code:
 7.  .assistive-text { display: none; }
      .paging-navigation ul { list-style: none; }
 8.  .paging-navigation li {
      float: left; }
 9.  .paging-navigation .current {
      }
 10. .paging-navigation .paginate_link {
      }
 11. .paging-navigation .prev {
      }
 12. .paging-navigation .next {
      }

Here is some sample HTML output:

    ```
    <nav role="navigation" id="pages_bottom" class="site-navigation paging-navigation">
        <h1 class="assistive-text">Post navigation</h1>
        <ul>
            <li>
                <a href="?paged=2" rel="prev" class="prev">
                    <span class="paginate_link">Previous</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="/">
                    <span class="paginate_link">1</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a rel="prev" href="?paged=2">
                    <span class="paginate_link">2</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="current">3</span>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a rel="next" href="?paged=4">
                    <span class="paginate_link">4</span>
                </a>
            </li>
    [...]
            <li>
                <span class="seperator">..</span>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="?paged=19">
                    <span class="paginate_link">19</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <span class="seperator">...</span>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="?paged=35">
                    <span class="paginate_link">35</span>
                </a>
            </li>
    [...]
            <li>
                <a href="?paged=42">
                    <span class="paginate_link">42</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="?paged=4" rel="next" class="next">
                    <span class="paginate_link">Next</span>
                </a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
    ```

## FAQ

  Does the plugin support the use of pretty permalinks?

Yes, it does. It uses internal WordPress functions to generate the links so all 
changes to your link structure within your WordPress site will be repsected.

  I have navigation showing up in the sidebar.

Until i find a better solution you will have to use the template-tag `<?php the_wp_lopa('
pages_below'); ?>` to call the pagination element. Make sure to uncheck the places
on the Settings page aswell.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Logarithmic Pagination” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Jonas ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/uargh/)

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## Changelog

#### 0.1.3

 * Fixed translations

#### 0.1.2

 * Added some default css so the pagination starts out looking half way decent.
 * Added the option to display pagination on author archives.

#### 0.1.1

 * Added template-tag `<?php the_wp_lopa('pages_below'); ?>` to use when having 
   confilcts with widgets

#### 0.1

 * Initial version

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1.3**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.5.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-lopa/)
 * Tags
 * [archives](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/archives/)[categories](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)
   [navigation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/navigation/)[pagination](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pagination/)
   [search](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-lopa/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Jonas ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/uargh/)

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