How to add page numbers in blog

Page number is one of the most important tool for web site navigation. It gives  your readers the opportunity of navigate the blog easily. Unfortunately blogger does not provide page number  navigation widget by default. But you can add page number to your blogger. Today I will show you how can you add page number widget to your blogger. Before that just let you know that, you can add page no. to your blogger by two ways. One is editing your blogger’s  HTML code  and another way is adding a page no. widget to your blogger’s  layout. Honestly speaking I don’t like editing HTML and it is bit difficult too. So I will show you how can you add page number to your blogger by just adding a widget. The process is very simple. Just follow the simple step…..

How to add the blogger page numbers instead of the very old home,previous,next buttons with this new page navigation trick for all bloggers and blogspot users

Above is the screen shot of this trick you can say this as widget for blogger as we not touching the template of the blog see merits of this trick
MERITS OF THIS PAGE NAVIGATION TRICK:

• Fast loading which makes your seo rank increase
• No external links for script total code added in this
• No need to edit your template
• This feature also applicable for search,label result

You can say using this you can limit the search results of blogger as well as showing limited posts on particular lable
STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED FOR THIS TRICK:

1. Login to your blogger account
2. In your home page click on Layout ( you can find on left side of your home panel)
3. Click on Add gadget any where in layout (dont worry this will replace the home,previous,next buttons so you can add any where)
4. In gadget menu click on HTML/JAVA SCRIPT 
5. Now copy paste the below code into it

 <style type='text/css'>
.showpageArea a {
text-decoration:underline;
}
.showpageNum a {
border:1px solid #aeaeae;
margin:0 3px;
padding:3px 7px;
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpageNum a:hover {
background-color:#0a8be5;
border:1px solid #000000;

}
.showpagePoint {
-moz-background-clip:border;
-moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;
-moz-background-origin:padding;
background:#aeaeae none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:1px solid #aeaeae;
color:#333333;
margin:0 3px;
padding:3px 7px;
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpageOf {
margin:0 3px 0 0;
padding:3px 7px;
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpage a {
border:1px solid #aeaeae;
padding:3px 7px;
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpage a:hover {
text-decoration:none;
}
.showpageNum a:link, .showpage a:link {
color:#333333;
text-decoration:none;
}
</style>

<script type='text/javascript'>

var home_page_url = location.href;

var pageCount=7;
var displayPageNum=3;
var upPageWord ='Previous';
var downPageWord ='Next';

function showpageCount(json) {
var thisUrl = home_page_url;
var htmlMap = new Array();
var thisNum = 1;
var postNum=1;
var itemCount = 0;
var fFlag = 0;
var eFlag = 0;
var html= '';
var upPageHtml ='';
var downPageHtml ='';

for(var i=0, post; post = json.feed.entry[i]; i++) {

var timestamp1 = post.published.$t.substring(0,19)+post.published.$t.substring(23,29);
timestamp = encodeURIComponent(timestamp1);

var title = post.title.$t;

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+'&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){
 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 += '<span class="showpagePoint">'+thisNum+'</span>';
}else{
if(p==0){
  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++;
}
}
}

if(thisNum>1){
html = ''+upPageHtml+' '+html +' ';
}

html = '<div class="showpageArea"><span  class="showpageOf"> Pages ('+(postNum-1)+')</span>'+html;

if(thisNum<(postNum-1)){
html += downPageHtml;
}

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

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;
}

}

function showpageCount2(json) {

var thisUrl = home_page_url;
var htmlMap = new Array();
var isLablePage = thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")!=-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 labelHtml = '<span class="showpageNum"><a href="/search/label/'+thisLable+'?&max-results='+pageCount+'">';
var thisUrl = home_page_url;

for(var i=0, post; post = json.feed.entry[i]; i++) {

var timestamp1 = post.published.$t.substring(0,19)+post.published.$t.substring(23,29);
timestamp = encodeURIComponent(timestamp1);

var title = post.title.$t;

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

if(title!='') postNum++;
htmlMap[htmlMap.length] = '/search/label/'+thisLable+'?updated-max='+timestamp+'&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){
 upPageHtml = labelHtml + upPageWord +'</a></span>';
}else{
 upPageHtml = '<span class="showpage"><a href="'+htmlMap[p]+'">'+ upPageWord +'</a></span>';
}

fFlag++;
}

if(p==(thisNum-1)){
html += '<span class="showpagePoint">'+thisNum+'</span>';
}else{
if(p==0){
 html = labelHtml+'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++;
}
}
}

if(thisNum>1){
if(!isLablePage){
html = ''+upPageHtml+' '+html +' ';
}else{
html = ''+upPageHtml+' '+html +' ';
}
}

html = '<div class="showpageArea"><span  class="showpageOf"> Pages ('+(postNum-1)+')</span>'+html;

if(thisNum<(postNum-1)){
html += downPageHtml;
}

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

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 type='text/javascript'>

var thisUrl = home_page_url;
if (thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")!=-1){
if (thisUrl.indexOf("?updated-max")!=-1){
var lblname1 = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")+14,thisUrl.indexOf("?updated-max"));
}else{
var lblname1 = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")+14,thisUrl.indexOf("?&max"));
}
}

var home_page = "/";
if (thisUrl.indexOf("?q=")==-1){
if (thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")==-1){
document.write('<script src="'+home_page+'feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&callback=showpageCount&max-results=99999" ><\/script>')
}else{document.write('<script src="'+home_page+'feeds/posts/full/-/'+lblname1+'?alt=json-in-script&callback=showpageCount2&max-results=99999" ><\/script>')
}
}
</script>

Note:Change the blue color number 7 to how many posts you want to show

1. Save your gadget and see your blog added with the latest page navigation 

Hope this article finds best solution for your page navigation problem
enjoy the day