As briefly discussed in the comments, WordPress is built to promote and provide several interfaces for it’s content such that it is possible to discover and access posts in a number of different ways. This includes (but is not necessarily limited to) things such as “Meta tags” embedded within every page’s markup to assist other … Read more
The answer is to use pre_get_posts. See WordPress Pagination not displaying posts after certain page As Milo says “WordPress determines if a paginated page exists based on the results of the main query”. I was using a custom query that was setting posts_per_page to 5 but in Settings this value was set to 10. Using … Read more
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To achieve the behavior you’re describing—keeping the “prev” or “next” buttons visible but not clickable when you’re on the first or last page—you can use a combination of CSS and conditionally modifying the pagination links. Here’s an example of how you can achieve this in WordPress: First, add the following CSS to your theme’s stylesheet … Read more
Definitely not the right way to modify the main query on any given template. Hook to pre_get_posts instead and modify it there.
You can remove the trailing slash from the pagination links by adding untrailingslashit() function as callback for paginate_links filter. Put this code in your theme’s functions.php or in an mu-plugin (untested): add_filter( ‘paginate_links’, ‘untrailingslashit’ );