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DF-Pagination

DF-Pagination is a simple, flexible and cool pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site.

Active installs20+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d51▼ -30.1% vs prev. 30d
Rating—0 reviews
Health score24/100At risk
All-time downloads7.3KSince Dec 2011
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 2.7.0PHP any
Downloads · 7d3▼ -57.1% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

DF-Pagination shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites and was last updated 15 years ago, and scores 24/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (20+ active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in 14 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 3.3 (latest is 7.1)

Daily downloads

246Jul 20Sep 2Oct 17
Yesterday1
Daily average (1y)2
Peak day12May 4, 2026
Last 12 months638

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where DF-Pagination stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
df-pagination #3 3 Best df-pagination plugins →
navigation >100 6,359 Best navigation plugins →
page >100 10,000 Best page plugins →
pagination >100 3,519 Best pagination plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.0100.0%

About DF-Pagination

From the official readme · v1.0

Description

DF-Pagination is a simple, flexible and cool pagination plugin which provides users with better navigation on your WordPress site. It has builtin ‘rel=next’ and ‘rel=previous’ markup.

In addition to increasing the user experience for your visitors, it has also been widely reported that pagination increases the SEO of your site by providing more links to your content.

Starting in version 1.0, DF-Pagination can also be used to pagination post comments!

Translations: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/df-pagination/I18n (check the version number for the correct file)

Installation

Install and Activate

  1. Unzip the downloaded df-pagination zip file
  2. Upload the df-pagination folder and its contents into the df-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation
  3. Activate df-pagination from Plugins page

Implement

For posts pagination:
1) Open the theme files where you’d like pagination to be used. Usually this is the loop.php file. For older version of WordPress, you may need to update the index.php, archive.php and search.php files.

2) Replace your existing previous_posts_link() and next_posts_link() code block with the following:

<?php if(function_exists('df_pagination')) {
    df_pagination();
} ?>

Configure

1) The styles can be changed with the following methods:

  • Add the following custom CSS to your theme’s `styles.css’ :

    /* Pagination */
    .pagination {
    clear:both;
    padding:0 0 10px 200px;
    position:relative;
    font-size:11px;
    line-height:13px;
    }
    .pagination span, .pagination a {
    display:block;
    float:left;
    margin: 2px 2px 2px 0;
    padding:6px 9px 5px 9px;
    text-decoration:none;
    width:auto;
    color:#fff;
    background: #555;
    }
    .pagination a:hover{
    color:#fff;
    background: #3279BB;
    }
    .pagination .current{
    padding:6px 9px 5px 9px;
    background: #3279BB;
    color:#fff;
    }

Changelog

N/A

1.0

  • Initial release

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

An example of the df-pagination display using the default options and styling
An example of the df-pagination display using the default options and styling

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FAQ

DF-Pagination: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 18, 2026

Is DF-Pagination free?

Yes. DF-Pagination is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is DF-Pagination safe to use in 2026?

DF-Pagination shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 20+ sites and was last updated 15 years ago, and scores 24/100 on our health check.

How many websites use DF-Pagination?

DF-Pagination is active on 20+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 7,283 times since it launched in December 2011. It was downloaded 51 times in the last 30 days.

Does DF-Pagination work with WordPress 7.1?

DF-Pagination is officially tested up to WordPress 3.3.2, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was DF-Pagination last updated?

The latest version, 1.0, was released on December 30, 2011 (15 years ago).

Who makes DF-Pagination?

DF-Pagination is developed and maintained by Nitin Yawalkar.

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