How to Add Page Number Navigation Link in Blogger/Blogspot blog

A blogspot/blogger blog whether hosted on a .blogspot domain or own domain, does not provide navigation option flexibility as offered by wordpress self-hosted blogs. In blogger, “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts” links are used for post navigation which occupies its place by default. However, there is a way to change this traditional style of “Older Posts” and “Newer Posts” style of page navigation with wordpress style of numbered page navigation. Below is a figure illustrating what sort of navigation I meant.

We can change traditional blogger navigation to the above mentioned kind of navigation by using a CSS and Javascript hack written by Mohamed Rias.

To add the numbered blog page navigation, proceed as follows:

1. Login to blogger account.

2. Click on “layout” link for the blog which you would like the navigation style to be added.

3. Go to ‘Page Element’ tab if you are not taken automatically

4. Click on “Add a gadget” anywhere in the layout of your blog. This gadget’s position would be changed in the final step.

5. In ‘Add a gadget Window’, select option to add HTML/Javascript

6. In the title field add anything which can be used to identify your gadget.

7. In the ‘content’ text field, add the following code:

<style>
.showpageArea {
padding: 0 2px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;
}

.showpageArea a {
border: 1px solid #505050;
color: #000000;font-weight:normal;
padding: 3px 6px !important;
padding: 1px 4px ;margin:0px 4px;
text-decoration: none;
}

.showpageArea a:hover {
font-size:11px;
border: 1px solid #333;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

.showpageNum a {
border: 1px solid #505050;
color: #000000;font-weight:normal;
padding: 3px 6px !important;
padding: 1px 4px ;margin:0px 4px;
text-decoration: none;
}

.showpageNum a:hover {
font-size:11px;
border: 1px solid #333;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFFFFF;

}
.showpagePoint {
font-size:11px;
padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px;
margin: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
border: 1px solid #333;
color: #fff;
background-color: #000000;
}

.showpage a:hover {
font-size:11px;
border: 1px solid #333;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}

.showpageNum a:link,.showpage a:link {
font-size:11px;
padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px;
margin: 2px;
text-decoration: none;
border: 1px solid #0066cc;
color: #0066cc;
background-color: #FFFFFF;}

.showpageNum a:hover {
font-size:11px;
border: 1px solid #333;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
}
</style>

<script type=”text/javascript”>

function showpageCount(json) {
var thisUrl = location.href;
var htmlMap = new Array();
var isFirstPage = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.length-14,thisUrl.length)==”.blogspot.com/”;
var isLablePage = thisUrl.indexOf(”/search/label/”)!=-1;
var isPage = thisUrl.indexOf(”/search?updated”)!=-1;
var thisLable = isLablePage ? thisUrl.substr(thisUrl.indexOf(”/search/label/”)+14,thisUrl.length) : “”;
thisLable = thisLable.indexOf(”?”)!=-1 ? thisLable.substr(0,thisLable.indexOf(”?”)) : thisLable;
var thisNum = 1;
var postNum=1;
var itemCount = 0;
var fFlag = 0;
var eFlag = 0;
var html= ”;
var upPageHtml =”;
var downPageHtml =”;

var pageCount=5;
var displayPageNum=3;
var firstPageWord = ‘First’;
var endPageWord = ‘Last’;
var upPageWord =’Previous’;
var downPageWord =’Next’;

var labelHtml = ‘<span class=”showpageNum”><a href=”/search/label/’+thisLable+’?&max-results=’+pageCount+’”>’;

for(var i=0, post; post = json.feed.entry[i]; i++) {
var timestamp = post.published.$t.substr(0,10);
var title = post.title.$t;
if(isLablePage){
if(title!=”){
if(post.category){
for(var c=0, post_category; post_category = post.category[c]; c++) {
if(encodeURIComponent(post_category.term)==thisLable){
if(itemCount==0 || (itemCount % pageCount ==(pageCount-1))){
if(thisUrl.indexOf(timestamp)!=-1 ){
thisNum = postNum;
}

postNum++;
htmlMap[htmlMap.length] = ‘/search/label/’+thisLable+’?updated-max=’+timestamp+’T00%3A00%3A00%2B08%3A00&max-results=’+pageCount;
}
}
}
}//end if(post.category){

itemCount++;
}

}else{
if(title!=”){
if(itemCount==0 || (itemCount % pageCount ==(pageCount-1))){
if(thisUrl.indexOf(timestamp)!=-1 ){
thisNum = postNum;
}

if(title!=”) postNum++;
htmlMap[htmlMap.length] = ‘/search?updated-max=’+timestamp+’T00%3A00%3A00%2B08%3A00&max-results=’+pageCount;
}
}
itemCount++;
}
}

for(var p =0;p< htmlMap.length;p++){
if(p>=(thisNum-displayPageNum-1) && p<(thisNum+displayPageNum)){
if(fFlag ==0 && p == thisNum-2){
if(thisNum==2){
if(isLablePage){
upPageHtml = labelHtml + upPageWord +’</a></span>’;
}else{
upPageHtml = ‘<span class=”showpage”><a href=”/”>’+ upPageWord +’</a></span>’;
}
}else{
upPageHtml = ‘<span class=”showpage”><a href=”‘+htmlMap[p]+’”>’+ upPageWord +’</a></span>’;
}

fFlag++;
}

if(p==(thisNum-1)){
html += ‘&nbsp;<span class=”showpagePoint”><u>’+thisNum+’</u></span>’;
}else{
if(p==0){
if(isLablePage){
html = labelHtml+’1</a></span>’;
}else{
html += ‘<span class=”showpageNum”><a href=”/”>1</a></span>’;
}
}else{
html += ‘<span class=”showpageNum”><a href=”‘+htmlMap[p]+’”>’+ (p+1) +’ </a></span>’;
}
}

if(eFlag ==0 && p == thisNum){
downPageHtml = ‘<span class=”showpage”> <a href=”‘+htmlMap[p]+’”>’+ downPageWord +’</a></span>’;
eFlag++;
}
}//end if(p>=(thisNum-displayPageNum-1) && p<(thisNum+displayPageNum)){
}//end for(var p =0;p< htmlMap.length;p++){

if(thisNum>1){
if(!isLablePage){
html = ‘<span class=”showpage”><a href=”/”>’+ firstPageWord +’ </a></span>’+upPageHtml+’ ‘+html +’ ‘;
}else{
html = ”+labelHtml + firstPageWord +’ </a></span>’+upPageHtml+’ ‘+html +’ ‘;
}
}

html = ‘<div class=”showpageArea”><span style=”font-size:11px;padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px;margin: 2px 2px 2px 2px;color: #000000;border: 1px solid #333; background-color: #FFFFFF;” class=”showpage”>Page ‘+thisNum+’ of ‘+(postNum-1)+’: </span>’+html;

if(thisNum<(postNum-1)){
html += downPageHtml;
html += ‘<span class=”showpage”><a href=”‘+htmlMap[htmlMap.length-1]+’”> ‘+endPageWord+’</a></span>’;
}

if(postNum==1) postNum++;
html += ‘</div>’;

if(isPage || isFirstPage || isLablePage){
var pageArea = document.getElementsByName(”pageArea”);
var blogPager = document.getElementById(”blog-pager”);

if(postNum <= 2){
html =”;
}

for(var p =0;p< pageArea.length;p++){
pageArea[p].innerHTML = html;
}

if(pageArea&&pageArea.length>0){
html =”;
}

if(blogPager){
blogPager.innerHTML = html;
}
}

}
</script>

<script src=”/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&callback=showpageCount&max-results=99999″ type=”text/javascript”></script>

8. Click ‘Save’ button

9. Drag this new gadget right below “Blog Posts” element.

10. Click on “Save button”

Important to know:

• For those who are using self-hosted domain name, modify the .blogspot.com and 14 (13 characters of domain name + 1) in the line of var isFirstPage = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.length-14,thisUrl.length)==&quot;.blogspot.com/&quot;; accordingly.

• The value in the line of var pageCount =5; determines the number of posts to be shown on each page.

• The value in the line of var displayPageNum = 3; defines the number of page links in the navigation bar to be displayed (e.g. 1 – 2 – 3).

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