add spans and characters into paginate_links

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I am using paginate_links on my custom page query.

What I have already works sweet and this is the code I have so far…

<?php
    global $wp_query;

    $big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer

    echo paginate_links( array(
        'base'      => str_replace( $big, '%#%', get_pagenum_link( $big ) ),
        'format'    => '?paged=%#%',
        'current'   => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
        'total'     => $wp_query->max_num_pages,
        'prev_text' => __('&#8592; Previous'),
        'next_text' => __('Next &#8594;')
    ));
?>

Though I really need to be it a bit more different, but can’t find any documentation on how to bend the rules with it.

Question 1
I need the prev_text and next_text to be translatable. I have been adding my theme text domain for localization through-out my theme. And on generic text strings, I have been using this <?php _e('Latest Dowloads','mythemetextdomain'); ?>. How can I add my theme text domain into the prev_text and next_text string.

Question 2
How can I add <span class="bracket">[</span> and <span class="bracket">]</span> between each of my paginated page numbers?

Please see image below of what my current pagination is looking like.

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Now see image below of what I’m trying to achieve by using spans and brackets.

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Can any help me modify my paginate query above to get these 2 things to work? Or is it not possible?

Thanks

3 Answers
3

The function paginate_links() can return “plain”, “list” and “array” (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links). Just define the type as array then you’ll be to display it as you want:

<?php
    global $wp_query;

    $big = 999999999; // need an unlikely integer

    $paginate_links = paginate_links( array(
        'base'      => str_replace( $big, '%#%', get_pagenum_link( $big ) ),
        'format'    => '?paged=%#%',
        'current'   => max( 1, get_query_var('paged') ),
        'total'     => $wp_query->max_num_pages,
        'prev_text' => __('&#8592; Previous'),
        'next_text' => __('Next &#8594;'),
        'type'      => 'array'
    ));

    foreach ( $paginate_links as $pgl ) {
        echo "[ $pgl ]";
    }
?>

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