Blog Pagination URL: Remove "P" from url and get correct page number

Question

I want my URLs to be like the following: domain.com/blog/2

Currently they are: domain.com/blog/P6

RIght now if I show 6 articles per page, my pagination will jump by 6.

For instance, Page 1 will be /, page 2 will be /P6/, page 3 will be /P9/, ect.

Answer 1

I was able to accomplish this by doing the following:

• On index template, set Allow PHP? to Yes
• On index template, set PHP Parsing Stage to Input
• On single template, set Template route override to /blog/{url_title:regex[(((?!(\d+|category\/)).)+?)]} (make sure to swap blog for your index page url)

Inside index template, use the following:

<?php $entriesperpage = 6; ?>
      {if segment_2}
        <?php
        $entries = ee('Model')->get('ChannelEntry')
         ->filter('channel_id', 4) // or whatever you want/need to filter on
         ->filter('status', 'IN', array('open', 'other_status'))
         ->order('title', 'ASC')
         ->all();
         $totalentries = count($entries);
         if ( ($totalentries / (({segment_2} - 1) * $entriesperpage)) < 1 ) {
           $redirect = "TRUE";
         } else {
           $redirect = "FALSE";
         }
         $totalpages = ceil($totalentries / $entriesperpage);
         ?>
         {if <?php echo $redirect; ?>}
            {redirect='404'}
         {/if}
      {/if}
      {exp:channel:entries channel="articles" dynamic="no" {if segment_2} offset="<?php echo ({segment_2} - 1) * $entriesperpage; ?>" {/if} limit="<?php echo $entriesperpage; ?>" paginate="bottom"}
        <a class="post" href="{route='blog/single' url_title='{url_title}'}"></a>
      {/exp:channel:entries}
      <div class="pagination">
        {if segment_2}
          <?php $prevpage = {segment_2}-1; ?>
          <a href="{site_url}blog<?php if ($prevpage != 1) { echo '/' . $prevpage; } ?>" class="page-prev">Prev</a>
        {/if}
        <?php for ($i = 1; $i <= $totalpages; $i++) { ?>
          <a href="{site_url}blog<?php if ($i != 1) { echo '/' . $i; } ?>" class="{if (!segment_2 && (<?php echo $i; ?> == 1)) || (segment_2 == <?php echo $i; ?>)} active{/if}"><?php echo $i; ?></a>
        <?php } ?>
        {if !segment_2}
          <a href="{site_url}blog/2" class="page-next">Next</a>
        {if:else}
          {if segment_2 != <?php echo $totalpages; ?>}
          <a href="{site_url}blog/<?php echo ({segment_2} + 1); ?>" class="page-next">Next</a>
          {/if}
        {/if}
      </div>

This will produce the following urls:

• website.com/blog
• website.com/blog/2
• website.com/blog/3
• etc

Make sure to set $entriesperpage to your desired entries per page, channel_id to the correlating ID of channel you're displaying, and update blog to your index page url.

We are essentially using our own pagination logic, and I'm sure this could be cleaned up a bit.

Note that this will display all page links, so you may want to add custom logic if dealing with many pages.