How to add "Next Page" link to a widgetized Home page

[BabsSaul]

For some reason I cannot just add this to this post so adding this afresh as it may be useful for some...

With themes that have home pages made up of widgets, there is no obvious way to go to the "Next Page" of blog posts, and some sites want to include this. So here is what I did:

Create a Blog page, with the Blog Template. View this page, scroll down and get the link for the Next Page.

In Widgets, add a Text widget to the Home - Bottom widget. Into this paste the code to go to that second blog page. For instance:

<p style="text-align: right; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.domainame.com/blog/page/2">Next Page »</a>

And that pretty much covers it - the styling above is so that it matches the blog page links. I also had to match the number of blog posts showing to whatever the home page includes.

Hope that helps. I know it could be coded into files, etc, but the above is a quick solution.

[Susan]

Thanks for sharing!

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