Dec 15

WordPress "SEO Pager" Pagination Control Plugin Released!

Posted by Jaimie Sirovich on Dec. 15th, 2008. 12 comments — voice your opinion.

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You like SEO and intuitive pagination controls? Well, we decided to release our SEO Pager control that we've been using for awhile over here anyway. So here's the scoop —

This Wordpress plugin implements a multi-page customizable pager to replace the standard, boring WordPress "Earlier Posts" and "Newer Posts" links. This improves SEO as well as usability. In addition to this it presents some related SEO options. Its features include —

* Set SEO-Pager to either a plain or boxed style.
* No need to edit a stylesheet either! Just enter hex color value or name for border, background, text, and hover/selected colors.
* No need to edit your template! Either have it automatically installed for you for ease, or do it yourself for full control — you decide.
* Customize the previous and next labels for pager.
* Optionally add page numbers to category and archive listing page titles.
* Optionally excerpt posts on page numbers greater than 1 to mitigate duplicate content issues.
* Show date associated with first post of every page link for easy navigation.
* Fix and intercept various improper links (page out of bounds, etc.).

Pager Screenshot:

Control Panel Screenshots:

Pager Options:


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Brad the Wordpress SEO

Love it. Going to try it out tomorrow…

Very nice job Jaimie.

Ryan @ Linkbuildr

Awesome plugin Jaimie! I'll blog about this to my readers for sure…sphunn and hopefully more do it as well.

Nick Pelling

Hi Jaimie,

I'm having a little trouble getting your SEO Pager plugin to render as per the instructions.

Replacing the posts_nav_link() call with the SEO_pager() call gives a list of clickable numbers, so everything is being called fine. However…
(1) these numbers appear to be in a narrow left-aligned div (and so appear over three lines)
(2) even though I have black borders enabled, I'm not getting any borders at all, just plain HTML numbers.

My best guess is that users would also need to define class "pagerbox" in their CSS to get this plugin working sensibly: if this is the case, can you please post up a suitable CSS snippet to add?

Apart from that, it should be excellent for SEO. :-)

Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….

Jaimie Sirovich

Nick,

Do you have wp_head enabled? Perhaps we should warn if not — but if you don't, our stylesheet wouldn't be installed automatically. I'll send you an email and see what I can do.

pali

Hello Jamie,

Nice plugin to see, but i having a problem render.
After i activated the plugin, I off the 'Place Pager Automatically in Template' option then i delete my:-

In to this: -

but it not showing anything in my blog homepage. Afterthat i change my CSS class from 'navigation' to 'pagerbox' it show a empty little box.

Also i trying turn on 'Place Pager Automatically in Template' option, get the same result.

Can u pls show me the how to make this great plugin working.

Cheers..

tyler

I love the plugin! It works wonders, well everywhere except the homepage. Any words of wisdom?

manuel

beautiful plugin.
I have a problem: when i turn off the "Place Pager Automatically in Template" and put in my php page the SEO_pager() function, my numbers of post for page don't work. first i had 8 post, and then all the post displayed.

Craig Mullins

How can I make more then the 10 links show up?

Tommy

Hi, this is amazing plugin!!! but it seems that doesnt work properly, please help. I installed it ant look like everything ok, i see paging on my index, but if press any of pages it just refreshes, in title bat i see that it change to page 2, 3… but content not, content stays the same as on index. I'm not a programmer, but it looks that problem with query_posts, my theme was without any paging, i use custom theme: magazeen, you may see it live preview and download it here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/23/magazeen-free-magazine-look-wordpress-theme/ please help to configure it, or maybe try to say what is the problem? Thank you, best regard Tommy

Suchi

@Tommy: Were u able to solve your problem?? I am having absolutely same issue. I am using the LOOP like this
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

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