WP-PageNavi is definitely one of the most popular WordPress plugins and in fact, it is very useful. But did you know that since version 2.1, WordPress had a built-in function called paginate_links(), which can be used to create to paginate your blog without using any plugin? Today, let’s see how to use this handy function to create a pagination for your WordPress blog.

Simply paste the following code where you want to display your pagination:

 global $wp_query; $total = $wp_query->max_num_pages; // only bother with the rest if we have more than 1 page! if ( $total > 1 )  {      // get the current page      if ( !$current_page = get_query_var('paged') )           $current_page = 1;      // structure of "format" depends on whether we're using pretty permalinks      $format = empty( get_option('permalink_structure') ) ? '&page=%#%' : 'page/%#%/';      echo paginate_links(array(           'base' => get_pagenum_link(1) . '%_%',           'format' => $format,           'current' => $current_page,           'total' => $total,           'mid_size' => 4,           'type' => 'list'      )); } 

Thanks to Smashing Magazine for the cool tip!