You can use get_previous_posts_link and get_next_posts_link to determine if they exists like this: $prev_link = get_previous_posts_link(__(‘« Older Entries’)); $next_link = get_next_posts_link(__(‘Newer Entries »’)); // as suggested in comments if ($prev_link || $next_link) { echo ‘<ul class=”navigation”>’; if ($prev_link){ echo ‘<li>’.$prev_link .'</li>’; } if ($next_link){ echo ‘<li>’.$next_link .'</li>’; } echo ‘</ul>’; } Hope This Helps
paginate_links() doesn’t offer a parameter and there are no hooks – see source – available to change the class(es). Which means you can do it like you have done it or you create your own pagination function based on paginate_links().
// get current page we are on. If not set we can assume we are on page 1. $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; // are we on page one? if(1 == $paged) { //true }
You can use a filter to modify the ORDER BY statement of WP_query. That way you can manually set the query to use ORDER BY RAND($seed); Mysql RAND() accepts a seed as an optional argument. Using a seed, it will return the same randomized result set each time. So you can generate a random number … Read more