When a web site, or blog, publishes lots of articles on a single page, the list can quickly become very long and hard to read. To solve this problem, paginations were created. Pagination allows displaying 10 articles (for example) on a page. If the user wants, then he or she can go to the next page, or click on a page number to directly go to the related page.
I definitely don't understand why WordPress still doesn't have a built-in pagination system. Instead, at the bottom of each page you'll find a Next link to go to the next page, and a Previous link to go back. This works fine when you're on page two and would like to go to page three, but what if you're on page one, and remember a very interesting article which was located on page eight? Are you going to browse page per page until you find your article? The answer is yes, because you don't have the choice. You can't jump from page one to page eight.
In this recipe, I'll show you how...