Beautiful Divi Blog Pagination
We’ve been having a lot of fun with the Divi Blog tutorial series, and we are not done yet! Today we add beauty and functionality all at once with some great pagination! I give you two methods. You can style and customize the default next and previous buttons, or you can add advanced pagination with the WP-PageNavi plugin. Both are great, and fit beautifully into our blog series. I hope you learn something new today!
Adjust The Divi Pagination Design Settings
You can start by adjusting some of the basic settings that are included in the Blog module design tab under the Pagination Text toggle. It is very strange, but they treat these links as text rather than links, just like the Divi Blog read more text tutorial. This is why you need this tutorial and snippet.
So go ahead and start with things like the font, font weight, text size, text color, etc.
Change The Divi Blog Pagination Text Links Into Buttons
Now that we have some basic design styles set, let’s continue by adding some CSS to make the pagination links look more like buttons. We are adding a background color, border, and hover effect.
If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the style.css file. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Custom CSS code box. If you need help, check out our complete guide on Where To Add Custom Code In Divi.
/*style the Divi blog pagination buttons*/
.pagination .alignleft a,
.pagination .alignright a {
color: #ffffff;
background: #0071fc;
border: 2px solid #0070fc;
padding: .7em 1.3em;
border-radius: 50px;
text-transform: capitalize;
transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}
/*style the Divi blog pagination buttons on hover*/
.pagination .alignleft a:hover,
.pagination .alignright a:hover {
background: transparent;
color: #0070fc;
border: 2px solid #0070fc;
transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}Add Advanced Pagination Page Numbers With The WP-PageNavi Plugin
On our main blog page and most of the websites I design, I like to use the plugin called WP-PageNavi. This plugin adds advanced pagination to the Divi Blog module. Just by installing and activating the plugin, it replaces the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with numbered page links. I really like this and think its a great addition to every blog.
Once you install and activate the plugin, the pagination automatically appears in the blog module. There are no other settings, so all you have to do now is style the pagination. I don’t like how it looks by default, here is a screenshot:
We can improve this quite a lot with some CSS! We go over all the details in the video, so be sure to always watch those since they accompany the blog posts.
You can add the code to your website by copying and pasting the entire snippet below. If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the style.css file. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Custom CSS code box.
/*style the wp-pagenavi pagination links*/
.wp-pagenavi a,
.wp-pagenavi span {
color: #000000;
background: #f1f3f5;
font-size: 1em !important;
line-height: 1em;
font-weight: bold !important;
padding: 0.45em 0.8em !important;
border-radius: 100px;
transition: all .5s;
}
/*style the wp-pagenavi current page number*/
.wp-pagenavi span.current {
color: #ffffff !important;
background: #0070fc !important;
border-radius: 100px;
}
/*style the wp-pagenavi pagination links on hover*/
.wp-pagenavi a:hover {
color: #ffffff!important;
background: #0070fc!important;
}
/*style the wp-pagenavi pages text*/
.wp-pagenavi .pages {
background: none;
}
/*remove border and center the wp-pagenavi links*/
.wp-pagenavi {
border-top: none;
text-align: center;
}Try to read what each of the parts are doing. The first part styles the numbers, the next one styles the current page number, the next one styls the numbers when hovering, the nexts one hides teh background around the pages, and the last one removes the border and centers the entire pagination. Again, we go over all of this in the video, so if you are serious about learning, be sure to watch that.
Here’s the final result using the WP-PageNavi plugin and CSS to add and style our Divi Blog module pagination:
I’d like to recommend that you dock the settings block so that you display the entire builder.when you are teaching.
Thanks for the suggestion Ben. Although I don’t think I have ever docked it in my entire life, so I probably won’t start now unless there is some sort of definite benefit to the viewers.
Excellent tutorial, thank you
You’re welcome Aidan!
Is there a way to add pagination to a specific post?
Hi Thomas, sure, just use the Divi Post Navigation module, best used in a Theme Builder template.
hey Nelson, yet again another awesome and useful tut! (Reading PA area here btw) Is there a way to use jquery with the pagenavi plugin to customize the pagination text like you did with the read more button? thanks in advance
Thanks Eric,
I’m glad you like it! I’m not sure, I think that would involve customize the pagenavi plugin but I am sure it could be done or maybe someone already would have a tutorial specific to that plugin.
Hi, followed the tutorial “How To Style And Customize The Divi Blog Pagination” from youtube, but when I try to see the page in safari or firefox, pagination does not appear. Only in chrome, what can this be? see my site, thanx a lot for any help! Living my site here so you can take a look.
Hi Maria,
I’m not sure, you should contact Elegant Themes or your hosting provider or a developer.
Nelson, your are great. You always have the best solutions!