How to add Page navigation in thesis

By default thesis theme does not have Page Navigation it has Previous and Next entries which really looks bad and all of us don’t like to play with it. So it results in increase of bounce rate and ultimately many more bad results like Drop in page views and CTR , etc. because of that we are now going to add Page Navigation in thesis

for adding page navigation in thesis theme we will need WP-PageNavi Plugin by Lesterz Chan. This Plugin is the core for adding the navigation it is mostly used for WordPress it can be also used for thesis just we need to tweak a bit in thesis.

Installation

Now lets Start the work , I already assume that you have installed WP-PageNavi plugin. if you haven’t yet then get it installed.

1. Login to WordPress Dashboard
2. Navigate to Thesis >> Custom File Editor
3. In custom_functions.php add the below code :

   function thesis_page_navi() { ?> <div align='left'> <?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?></div> <? }   add_action('thesis_hook_before_footer', 'thesis_page_navi');

   function thesis_page_navi() { ?> <div align='left'> <?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?></div> <? }add_action('thesis_hook_before_footer', 'thesis_page_navi');

4. Save the file

Now you are done go outside and check your site how the page navigation is looking on your thesis theme

Customization

Hopping for customization but i m really sorry to disappoint to you all that you won’t need any customization in this. Only if the Page Navigation does not appear properly then edit the CSS and if you are using some custom theme then you might need to change the hook to some appropriate hook that will suit it.