adding page navigation to blogspot

Newer version of Numbered page navigation for Simplex templates here

Page navigation is very useful for your reader to move between pages in your blog . Blogger has it own page navigation but it's very simple . Just need a little hack ,you can get a page navigation like the image bellow .

Check the demo here


To make a page navigation bar ,first you need to create a html/javascript widget in the main section of blog ,bellow blogpost widget ,and then paste this code :




<style type="text/css">

.showpageArea {padding: 10px; color:#003366;text-align:left;width:530px;
}
.showpageArea a {
float:left;
text-align:center;
display:block;
margin:0 5px;
color:#333;
}
.showpageArea a:hover {
color:#333;
margin:0 5px;
}
.showpageNum a { background: url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/page_num.gif') no-repeat 0 0;
width:37px;
height:42px;
display:block;
text-align:center;
float:left;
margin:0 5px;
padding-top:6px;
text-decoration:none;
color:#333;
}
.showpageNum a:hover { background:url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/page_num.gif') no-repeat 0 100%;
color:#FFF;
}
.showpagePoint {background:url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/page_num.gif') no-repeat 0 100%;
width:37px;
height:42px;
display:block;
float:left;
text-align:center;
margin:0 5px;
padding-top:6px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFF;
}
.showpageNum a:link, .showpage a:link {
text-decoration:none;
color:#cc0000;
}
.showpageupPageWord a { float:left;
background:url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/nextbutton.gif') no-repeat 0 0;
width:127px;
height:42px;
text-align:center;
font: bold 1.0em Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
display:block;
margin:0 5px;
padding-top:6px;
color:#333;
}
.showpageupPageWord a:hover { float:left;
background:url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/provup.png') no-repeat 0 0;
width:127px;
height:42px;
text-align:center;
font: bold 1.0em Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
display:block;
margin:0 5px;
padding-top:6px;
color:#FFF;
}
.showpagedownPageWord a { float:left;
background:url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/backbutton.gif') no-repeat 0 0;
width:127px;
height:42px;
text-align:center;
font: bold 1.0em Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
display:block;
margin:0 5px;
padding-top:6px;
color:#333;
}
.showpagedownPageWord a:hover { float:left;
background:url('http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp181/JohnSmithamazon/Blogger-Templates-Free-Designs-XML-Tutorial/nextup.png') no-repeat 0 0;
width:127px;
height:42px;
text-align:center;
font: bold 1.0em Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
display:block;
margin:0 5px;
padding-top:6px;
color:#FFF;
}


.pagenextprov {
text-align: center;
}
</style>


<div class='pagenextprov'>
<script type="text/javascript">
function showpageCount(json) {
var thisUrl = location.href;
var htmlMap = new Array();
var isFirstPage = thisUrl.substring(thisUrl.length-14,thisUrl.length)==".blogspot.com/";
var isLablePage = thisUrl.indexOf("/search/label/")!=-1;
var isPage = thisUrl.indexOf("/search?updated")!=-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 pageCount=5;
var displayPageNum=2;
var firstPageWord = 'First';
var endPageWord = 'last';
var upPageWord ='Back';
var downPageWord ='Next';


var labelHtml = '<span class="showpageNum"><a href="/search/label/'+thisLable+'?&amp;max-results='+pageCount+'">';
for(var i=0, post; post = json.feed.entry[i]; i++) {
var timestamp = post.published.$t.substr(0,10);
var title = post.title.$t;
if(isLablePage){
if(title!=''){
if(post.category){
for(var c=0, post_category; post_category = post.category[c]; c++) {
if(encodeURIComponent(post_category.term)==thisLable){
if(itemCount==0 || (itemCount % pageCount ==(pageCount-1))){
if(thisUrl.indexOf(timestamp)!=-1 ){
thisNum = postNum;
}
postNum++;
htmlMap[htmlMap.length] = '/search/label/'+thisLable+'?updated-max='+timestamp+'T00%3A00%3A00%2B08%3A00&amp;max-results='+pageCount;
}
}
}
}//end if(post.category){


itemCount++;
}
}else{
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+'T00%3A00%3A00%2B08%3A00&amp;max-results='+pageCount;
}
}
itemCount++;
}
}
for(var p =0;p< htmlMap.length;p++){
if(p>=(thisNum-displayPageNum-1) &amp;&amp; p<(thisNum+displayPageNum)){
if(fFlag ==0 &amp;&amp; p == thisNum-2){
if(thisNum==2){
if(isLablePage){
upPageHtml = labelHtml + upPageWord +'</a></span>';
}else{
upPageHtml = '<span class="showpageupPageWord"><a href="/">'+ upPageWord +'</a></span>';
}
}else{
upPageHtml = '<span class="showpageupPageWord"><a href="'+htmlMap[p]+'">'+ upPageWord +'</a></span>';
}
fFlag++;
}
if(p==(thisNum-1)){
html += ' <span class="showpagePoint"><u>'+thisNum+'</u></span>';
}else{
if(p==0){
if(isLablePage){
html = labelHtml+'1</a></span>';
}else{
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 &amp;&amp; p == thisNum){
downPageHtml = '<span class="showpagedownPageWord"> <a href="'+htmlMap[p]+'">'+ downPageWord +'</a></span>';
eFlag++;
}
}//end if(p>=(thisNum-displayPageNum-1) &amp;&amp; p<(thisNum+displayPageNum)){
}//end for(var p =0;p< htmlMap.length;p++){
if(thisNum>1){
if(!isLablePage){
html = '<span class="showpage"></span>'+upPageHtml+' '+html +' ';
}
}
html = '<div class="showpageArea"><span class="showpage"> Total '+(postNum-1)+': </span>'+html;


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


}
if(postNum==1) postNum++;
html += '</div>';
if(isPage || isFirstPage || isLablePage){
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&amp;&amp;pageArea.length>0){
html ='';
}
if(blogPager){
blogPager.innerHTML = html;
}
}
}
</script>
<script src="/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=showpageCount&amp;max-results=99999" type="text/javascript"></script>
</div>


you can change CSS style to make page navigation as you want .
Save template . Ok,done .