WordPress offers two types of pagination: archive pages and post pagination.
Archive pages
This displays a paginated navigation to next/previous sets 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
This displays page links for paginated posts using the 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
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Themes or plugins which is implementing with
the_posts_pagination()
andwp_link_pages()
tags for pagination.WP-PagiNavi plugin
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Users' or developers' originally created or fully customised functions.
Themes or plugins above original functions.
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