Why you should use WP Page Numbers

Yesterday I was looking for new ways to improve the usability of some of my other sites. A page number plugin sounded interesting as I had never checked it out before. I decided to install it to see if it had any effect on my traffic. Searched on Google for a good page number plugin and came out on the blog of Jenst. This guy made an awesome plugin to show page numbers on your wordpress blog.

Normally a wordpress blog is showing ‘Next page’ or ‘Previous page’ on the bottom of the blog, and this is not really encouraging people to browse through the pages! While having numbers, people can see how much pages the blog has and they can browse easily through them.The install of this page number plugin showed some good results on one of my mobile websites.

Before installing the page numbers plugin:

After installing the page numbers plugin:

Looking at these two screenshots I can conclude this plugin is creating more pageviews! Visitors are more likely to browse through page numbers at the bottom instead of a link saying ‘Next page’ or ‘Previous page’. The page number plugin is designed very well to. You can choose a design from the five options below:

Now I showed you how this will affect your pageviews, you probably want to install the plugin to

How to install the WP Page Number plugin:

1. Download the plugin here
2. Upload the folder ‘wp-page-numbers’ to the /wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin ‘WP Page Numbers’ through the ‘Plugins’ menu in admin
4. Go to ‘Options’ or ‘Settings’ and then ‘WP Page Numbers’ to change the options

How to use the WP Page Number plugin:

Replace the ‘next_posts_link()’ and ‘previous_posts_link()’ with the code below in your theme (archive.php, index.php or search.php).

<?php if(function_exists('wp_page_numbers')) { wp_page_numbers(); } ?>

Plugin options:

• Set all texts and arrows to what ever you want
• Limit the number of pages shown at a time
• Create paging stylesheet themes
• Turn off the stylesheet
• Turn off page numbers
• Turn off page information (page 2 of 5)
• Turn off the first and end page number
• Turn off the arrows

Installing this plugin will only take 10 minutes of your time and probably boost your pageviews!