If Next_Posts_Link is Null?

  • I’ve got this function:

    <?php next_posts_link( __( ‘<span class=”meta-nav”>←</span> Older posts’) ); ?>

    It creates a link if there are older posts. How do I do something on the condition that there are no older posts? Anything I do that uses this function only seems to echo the link.

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  • russelluresti

    (@russelluresti)

    I couldn’t find a very easy way to do this either, so I just copied what WordPress was already doing in get_next_posts_link().

    <?php
    if ( !$max_page ) $max_page = $wp_query->max_num_pages;

    if ( !$paged ) $paged = 1;

    $nextpage = intval($paged) + 1;

    if ( !is_single() && ( $nextpage <= $max_page ) ) {
?>

    That block evaluates to true if there ARE more posts to show — so in here I have my call to next_posts_link(‘More’). If you want to do something when there aren’t any more posts to show, just put in an “else” clause after the last “if”.

    You may call ‘get_next_posts_link’ instead of ‘next_posts_link’.
    A zero-length string returned means there are no previous posts.

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