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Free Plugin by Lutz Schröer v2.70

Pagebar2

Pagebar adds a nice page bar to your blog posts, multipaged posts and paged comments.

Pagebar2

The facts

Rating
3.7★ from 3
Active installs
900+
Price
Free
Last updated
31 Jul 2022
Added
Jan 2007
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
WP 6.0.14
Requires PHP
7.4
Downloads
176,444

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Pagebar2 is a WordPress plugin designed to enhance navigation on blog posts, multipaged posts, and paged comments by adding a customizable page bar. It allows for both automatic and manual insertion into templates, giving you control over the display and functionality of the pagination. The plugin includes various settings for displaying links, tooltips, and custom text for different page states.

This plugin is suitable for users who want to improve the pagination experience on their WordPress sites, particularly those with multipaged content. It offers flexibility in how the page bar is presented and integrated into existing themes.

Best for: This plugin suits bloggers and website owners looking to enhance navigation for multipaged content.

What it does well

  • Customizable page bar for blog and multipaged posts
  • Options for automatic or manual insertion
  • Control over link display and text for pagination

Where it falls short

  • Requires JavaScript enabled in the browser for the options page
  • Directory score indicates potential performance or support issues

Verdict

Pagebar2 offers useful features for improving pagination on WordPress sites, but users should consider its directory score and JavaScript requirement.

From the developer

Lutz Schröer's own description of Pagebar2, lightly tidied.

Pagebar adds a nice page bar to your blog posts, multipaged posts and paged comments:

Features

  • Optional automatic insertion if page on all post pages (blog, search, tags, …)
  • Full control of pagebar by manual insertion into the templates.
  • Better pagination for multipaged posts and pages
  • “Display all” link for multipaged posts.
  • Extremely customizable.

The option pages

The option page is devided into three tabs (postbar, multipagebar, commentbar) for the three different pagebar types. You need to have Javascript enabled in your browser for the option page to work! They all share some basic settings and got some specific settings, explained in the next chapters.

— Shared basic settings —

  • Left
    Number of links displayed on the left of the bar. If this number is 0 no left links are displayed at all.

  • Center
    The number of links displayed in the middle of the bar. This should be an odd number. If an even number is entered, pagebar will display one more link than entered. If this number is 0 no left links are displayed at all.

+Right
Number of links displayed on the right of the bar. if this number is 0 no right links are displayed at all.

  • Leading text
    Text to be displayed in front of the bar. A space is automatically added after the text. You can use the tokens in this field.

  • Standard page
    Text to be displayed on all pages but the current. You can use the tokens.

  • Current page
    Text to be displayed on the current page. You can use the tokens.

  • First page
    Text to be displayed for the first page.

  • Last page
    Text to be displayed for the last page.

  • Connector
    Text to be displayed between the left/center and center/right area. If left empty, “…” is displayed.

  • Previous
    Text to be displayed for the link to the previous page. If left empty, “<” is displayed. You can additionally define if the Previous link is always displayed, never displayed or if it is done automatically.

  • Next
    Text to be displayed for the link to the previous page. If left empty, “>” is displayed. You can additionally define if the Next link is always displayed, never displayed or if it is done automatically.

  • Tooltip text
    Text to display in tooltips. You can use the tokens.

  • Display
    Actually display tooltips?

  • Stylesheet
    You can define the necessary CSS definitions in two places:

    • in the style.css file of the current theme
    • in a seperate file in the current theme’s directory. The name of the file can be defined here.

    — Specific pagebar settings —

    • Automatic insertion
      If you would like to get pagebar inserted in the blog automatically you need to select this option and additionally the position where to insert pagebar (see next section).

    • Positioning
      If you have selected automatic insertion you can select where to insert the pagebar:

      • Front of postings -> Front of first posting
      • Behind postings -> After the last posting
      • Footer -> In the footer (footer.php)
        (If “Automatic insertion” is not selected these options are disbled.)

      Integration
      You can remove the standard wordpress navigation manually or by setting the “remove old navigation” checkbox.
      Remove standard navigation: Remove the standard navigation text of WordPress. This only works if the author of your currently used theme hasn’t changed the CSS class of the standard navigation (“.navigation” that is).
      (If “Automatic insertion” is not selected these options are disabled.)

      — Specific multipagebar settings —

      • Inherit settings
        If you check this option all basic options will be inherited from the postbar settings. Additionally all these options are removed from the multipagebar settings tab.

      • All pages link
        pagebar gives you the possibility to display all parts of a multipaged post. Checking this setting will add a link behind the pagebar allowing the user to display all parts.

      • All pages label
        Text display for the “All pages link”.

      — Specific commentbar options —

      +Inherit settings
      If you check this option all basic options will be inherited from the postbar settings. Additionally all these options are removed from the commentbar settings tab.

      Read the full description on the official page →

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