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In the admin panel in Options –> Reading: select – posts paged,
and add to your template (index.php) the posts_nav_link (see Wiki in The Loop.

Hmm…I can’t find any posts paged in the Options – Reading. All I’ve got are Front Page and Syndication Options. The point is Beel that I have searched, a lot, and none of it makes any sense.
To all of you PHP experts this stuff must seem really easy, to those of us coming from the ‘cut and paste’ school of HTML and CSS coding, there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind it. I’m sure there is, but it’s just very hard to find. Sorry to appear so dense!!! :=|
What it would be really nice to find is a clear cut set of instructions which say – ‘find this bit’, copy this bit into it and switch on this bit here’.
At the moment if you look up Previous Posts in the search and you get a cryptic command with absolutely no instructions at all in the Wiki. I’m sorry to sound so whiny, but you folks really ought to try and document this stuff better if you’re ever going to gain friends en masse. /complaint.

Posts paged must be set:
<div class="storycontent">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
<?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php posts_nav_link('::','&laquo;Newer', 'Older&raquo;'); ?>
</div>
<div id="menu">
Add the nav link line.
And CSS ?
https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/graphicalcss/
There is lots there.
And docs ? They do exist in many places.
Oh, and I know no php. None. Zero.

Thanks Podz, I’ve tried inserting the nav link line into my index.php just below the ‘no posts matched your criteria’, but nothing’s appearing. I’m clearly not getting understanding something fundamental about PHP and it’s frustrating the biscuits out of me! ??
Thanks for the CSS link btw, looks very promising! ??

Which version of wp are you using ?
The code above is straight from a 1.2 install that I have, and it is set to show 1 post-paged in Options.

Oops, I was the Anon suggesting Options–> Reading –> posts paged. And as I stated several times in this forum I am not able to write ONE single code in PHP, either. Don’t worry about that! Knowing HTML and CSS is fully enough for making your site as you’d like ??

juggs, it is not a PHP issue. IF you inserted the code as podz indicated it still will not work until you find the “Show the most recent X posts_paged” option. It is a dropdown menu in the Admin Reading section of 1.2 – You have 3 options there: “days” “posts” or “posts paged” Good news is that as of 1.3 “posts paged” will finally, and rightly, be irrelevant.

Thanks for that, I’ve now found the posts paged option and switched it on. But on the page I’m now getting
separatorNext
although the Next is a live link which does as required.

And docs ? They do exist in many places.

May I respectfully suggest that docs in one place might be easier for noobs to find and use?

?? Well success. Thanks for everyone’s patience. One final point if I may, I agree with anonymous above that the WordPress site and support would be infinitely better if the documentation could be better organised and laid out. Lots of newbies like myself are doubtless running away from WP in desperation without trying these excellent forums.
One example.
I was told very kindly early on to go to ‘Options –> Reading: select – posts paged’, and spent a while hunting for it. In fact the actual suggestion should have been to go to Options – Reading and under Front Page select Posts Paged from Show Most Recent. It may seem a trivial matter of semantics, but IMHO it’s this kind of well meaning but vague stuff that causes confusion which would be instantly clarified by better documentation or wiki entries.
I know it’s easy to say and hard to do, but that’s just my two pence worth. But thanks anyway to my patient helpers. Now on to the next challenge! ??

Part of the problem is WP is very vibrant and the changes of course affect the support documents. In 1.3 it would have been under Options|Reading but like I said previously, it is no longer an option.