WordPress offers two types of pagination. Archive pages and post pagination.
Archive pages
Displays a paginated navigation to next/previous set of posts, when applicable with the_posts_pagination() function which has been supported since WordPress version 4.1.
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_posts_pagination/
Post content
Displays page links for paginated posts with using wp_link_pages() function (i.e. including the <!--nextpage--> Quicktag one or more times).
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_link_pages/
Shifter recommended tags, plugins or themes
If your theme or plugin adheres to the WordPress coding standards there is a very good chance you won't have an issue. Pagination is simple, and most of the time it just works.
Themes or plugins which is implementing with
the_posts_pagination()andwp_link_pages()tags for pagination.WP-PagiNavi plugin
Unsupported tags or plugins
If you are using or developed a custom pagination strategy there's only one way to know if it will work and that's testing it. We offer a free trial for this purpose before subscribing.
Users' or developers' originally created or fully customised functions.
Themes or plugins above original functions.
Development, test and debug
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