Sridhar Katakam

Genesis and WordPress Tutorials

How to add an additional pagination to the top of archives in Genesis

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In the members-only forum, a user asked:

I would like to see a tutorial on how to add pagination (in my case, specifically numeric) to the top of a post archive. To be clear I don’t want to move or loose the pagination at the bottom of the archive. I just need to duplicate it at the top of the page like in the genesis_before_entry area. I’m guessing on the hook location.

We could hook the function that outputs the archive pagination per Genesis theme settings i.e., genesis_posts_nav to genesis_before_loop to make the pagination also appear above the list of posts on content archives in Genesis.

While the tutorial has been written for Genesis Sample, it should work with a few adjustments in any Genesis theme.

Step 1

Add the following in child theme’s functions.php:

// Show archive pagination in a format dependent on chosen setting above the posts on content archives.
add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_posts_nav' );

There is no need to do a check for non-archives i.e., singular pages and aborting early because both the functions (only one will run depending on the theme setting) inside genesis_posts_nav() do that.

Step 2

Add the following in child theme’s style.css:

.archive-pagination {
    margin-top: 0;
}

.entry + .archive-pagination {
    margin-top: 40px;
}

Reference: genesis/lib/structure/post.php

  • Thanks so much Sridhar!

    This works perfectly. My only issue is that I misspoke. I need this pagination on my blog page which I thought was the same as a post archive. Is there a way to include this pagination also on the blog page (which lists, or begins to list and link to all my posts)? Thanks!

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  • Thank you for pointing out Bill Erikson’s article. I needed to read that for sure.
    Your solution works perfectly, thanks so much!

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