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FIGURE 3‐14: Table style

      Pagination

      If your plugin contains a list of records, you may have a need for pagination, which is the method to break lists of data into multiple pages and have links to load each individual page. This helps reduce the load times and makes it a much cleaner user experience to navigate through the data. Would you rather view 500 records on a page or 10 pages with 50 records on each page?

      WordPress has a few different classes to style your pagination. The following is an example:

<div class="tablenav"> <div class="tablenav-pages"> <span class="displaying-num">Displaying 1-20 of 69</span> <span class="page-numbers current">1</span> <a href="#" class="page-numbers">2</a> <a href="#" class="page-numbers">3</a> <a href="#" class="page-numbers">4</a> <a href="#" class="next page-numbers">&raquo;</a> </div> </div>

First, you need to wrap your pagination links in the tablenav and tablenav‐pages div classes. The displaying‐num class styles the records you view. The page‐numbers class styles the page links in the familiar WordPress format. Adding current or next to the link class can add some unique styles to those elements, as shown in Figure 3‐15.