Description
A lightweight and powerful pagination plugin for WordPress that adds fully customizable pagination to your posts, pages, blog, search results, archive, category, tags, and author pages. Choose from numeric, “Load More”, or infinite scroll styles, and customize their appearance and behavior.
Perfect for WordPress users who want better content organization, enhanced SEO, and a smoother user journey.
Free Features
- Automatically add pagination to:
- Home
- Blog
- Archive
- Search results
- Paginated posts/pages
- Seamless integration with:
- Insert pagination via function into:
- Comments PHP template
- Theme or plugin PHP files
- Flexible positioning:
- Above content
- Below content
- Both above and below
- Manual placement via function
- Customize Next/Previous arrows and add scroll to top
- Display “Page X of Y” indicator
- Choose pagination layout:
- Full numeric (1,2,3,4,5,6)
- Short numeric (1,2…5,6)
- Selectively hide pagination for:
- Default themes
- Paginated posts or pages
- Comments
- Custom templates
- Set width and alignment (left, center, right) with custom margins
- Styling options:
- Hover and background color
- Text and border colors
- Current page colors
- Border width and radius
- Add custom HTML/CSS via plugin settings
- Fully compatible with latest WordPress version
- Intuitive interface – no coding required
- Step-by-step guides and video tutorials included
Pro Features
All Free version features plus:
- Select pagination type:
- Numeric
- “Load More” button
- Infinite scroll
- Next/Previous only
- “Load More” after initial content load
- Divi theme compatibility [NEW]
- Scroll Progress Bar option [NEW]
- Priority support within 1 business day (Support Policy)
Have a feature request? Let us know! Suggest a Feature
Documentation & Videos
Help & Support
Need help? Visit our Help Center — our friendly Support Team is here for you: https://support.bestwebsoft.com/
Translation
Available languages:
- French (fr_FR)
- German (de_DE)
- Portuguese (pt_PT)
- Hebrew (he_IL)
- Russian (ru_RU)
- Ukrainian (uk)
Want to improve or add a translation? Send us your PO/MO files. Use Poedit for editing translation files.
Recommended Plugins
Screenshots
Custom pagination block in the front-end – shorthand output. 
Custom pagination block in the front-end with all page numbers. 
Plugin settings in WordPress admin panel.
Installation
- Upload the
paginationfolder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin via the “Plugins” menu in your WordPress dashboard.
- Go to “Pagination” in the admin menu and configure your settings.
FAQ
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Where are the plugin settings?
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Go to the WordPress admin area and click “Pagination” in the sidebar menu.
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Can I disable my theme’s default pagination?
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Yes, in the Hide Pagination section, you can override or disable the built-in pagination of your theme.
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How do I remove the custom pagination block?
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In the Hide Pagination block, enter the CSS class or ID of the element you want to exclude and check the “Custom” box.
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Why isn’t the pagination showing up on some pages?
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Your theme might not be built to support custom pagination. Contact Support and we’ll help.
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How do I use Pagination with custom post types or custom queries?
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Use:
Replace
$second_querywith your custom WP_Query variable. -
How to enable pagination in the Divi theme?
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- Open Pagination Settings.
- Set “Posts selector” to
#content-area div.
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How to enable pagination in the Avada theme?
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- Open Pagination Settings.
- Set “Posts selector” to
.fusion-posts-container.
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What info should I provide for support?
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Before contacting support, make sure your issue hasn’t been addressed on our forum. Provide:
- A link to the affected page
- Plugin name and version
- WordPress version
- System status report (how to get it)
Reviews
September 7, 2023
I was using another highly-rated pagination plugin but it did not allow much in the way of altering its physical appearance on the page. It looked fine but it did not score well in the Accessibility category on PageSpeed Insights.
So I tried a few other plugins and found Pagination by BestWebSoft and—Voila!—the accessibility issues disappeared on PSI.
PbBWS also allows enough customizing that I was able to match the color of the pagination with the color scheme of my site.
So, thanks for the plugin and please keep up the good work.
Oh, and PbBWS is being easy to install and configure …
April 28, 2021
1 reply
I setup this plugin and it didn’t work well on my site. There was to paginations.
I tried to deactivate but didn’t work. Still there are two paginations. One is wordpress default and the other is this half working plugins pagination.
Also I create a ticket but still no answer.
April 9, 2021
Il vous permet de configurer vos paginations, comme bon vous semble.
January 11, 2021
Yeah, I tested this plugin the free version, is work just fine with Firefox, but with Opera, are continue to make “fetching” posts in homepage, AFTER numbering bar, and i don’t know how to stop this. Anyway in the future please make something with this fetching posts. For this work, deserve all the stars. Thanks a lot.
November 4, 2020
I’m not a techie, so it was really important for me to know I could ask for, and receive, help if I had questions. A couple came up, which required some custom css assistance. Customer service team was highly responsive – and followed-up until my issues were handled. Very impressive.
September 18, 2020
When i click save changes in the plugin Settings i have allways this error message and cant save the options.
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access this resource.
Thanks!
Contributors & Developers
“Pagination by BestWebSoft – Customizable WordPress Content Splitter and Navigation Plugin” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“Pagination by BestWebSoft – Customizable WordPress Content Splitter and Navigation Plugin” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
V1.2.6 – 25.02.2025
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.7
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- PRO : Progress Bar option was added.
- NEW : Scroll to top option was added.
V1.2.4 – 04.09.2023
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.3
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- Update : Improved compatibility with the Twenty-Three theme.
V1.2.3 – 22.03.2023
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.1.1
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- Update : French translation added.
- Update : German translation added.
- Bugfix : Security issues have been fixed.
V1.2.2 – 26.04.2022
- Bugfix : Deactivation Feedback fix.
V1.2.1 – 22.03.2022
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.9.
V1.2.0 – 02.07.2021
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.7.2
- PRO : Compatibility with Divi theme added.
V1.1.9 – 03.03.2021
- Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.6.2
- Bugfix : Compatibility with Gallery by BestWebSoft updated.
- Bugfix : Compatibility with Portfolio by BestWebSoft updated.
V1.1.8 – 20.04.2020
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.4.
- Update : BWS menu has been updated.
V1.1.7 – 04.09.2019
- Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.
V1.1.6 – 17.06.2019
- Bugfix : Compatibility with Gallery by BestWebSoft has been fixed.
- NEW : The German language file has been added.
V1.1.5 – 15.05.2019
- Update : BWS menu has been updated.
- PRO : The bug with the infinite scroll and “Load More” button on paginated posts/pages has been fixed.
V1.1.4 – 19.03.2019
- Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.1.1.
- PRO : The bug with the infinite scroll and “Load More” button has been fixed.
= V1.1.3 – 29.01.2019
* Update : All functionality for WordPress 5.0.3 was updated.
* Bugfix : Fixed small bugs.
* PRO : Buttons for non numeric pagination was added.
V1.1.2 – 18.09.2018
- Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.9.8 was updated.
- Pro : The bug with the infinite scroll has been fixed.
V1.1.1 – 03.05.2018
- NEW : Ability to choose pagination hover color has been added.
- Update : The plugin settings page has been updated.
- Update : Hebrew language file has been added.
V1.1.0 – 28.02.2018
- NEW : Ability to add “nofollow” attribute has been added.
- Pro : Ability to display “Load More” button after page loading has been added.
V1.0.9 – 20.11.2017
- Bugfix : Settings Page displaying has been fixed.
- Bugfix : Pagination displaying has been fixed.
V1.0.8 – 18.07.2017
- Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.8 was updated.
V1.0.7 – 14.04.2017
- NEW : The French language file is added.
- NEW : The Portuguese language file is added.
- Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.
V1.0.6 – 11.10.2016
- NEW : Ability to display pagination block automatically on paginated posts/pages has been added.
- Pro : “Load More” button pagination type.
- Pro : Infinite scroll pagination type.
V1.0.5 – 20.07.2016
- NEW : Ability to disable plugin styles.
- Update : Color Picker was updated.
- Update : BWS panel section was updated.
V1.0.4 – 19.04.2016
- NEW : Ability to use for custom post types with custom queries to the dababase.
- NEW : Ability to add custom styles.
- Bugfix : The conflict in the RSS feed was fixed.
V1.0.3 – 30.12.2015
- Bugfix : Displaying pagination block on the archive page and multipages was fixed.
- Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.
V1.0.2 – 30.10.2015
- Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
- Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.3.1.
V1.0.1 – 09.07.2015
- NEW : Ability to restore settings to defaults.
V1.0.0 – 20.05.2015
- NEW : We added the ability to configure the custom pagination block.
- NEW : The Russian and Ukrainian language files were added.
- Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.2.