Title: Changing Navigation Link & Text Last modified: March 24, 2017 --- # Changing Navigation Link & Text * [corpsehands](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpsehands/) * (@corpsehands) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-navigation-link-text/) * I have no idea why this is so infuriatingly difficult to do, but I’m just trying to change the post navigation links and text so posts can be viewed chronologically without having to use a link that says “previous” to access what is chronologically after it & vice versa. * here’s my site and the post page: [http://www.arthuriansmutcycle.com/read/?order=asc](http://www.arthuriansmutcycle.com/read/?order=asc) * as you can see, I have the posts set up to be viewed in ascending order. The links are still screwed up, though. I have a child theme already installed, I know code to adjust this belongs in function.php but I don’t know _what_ the code is that I need for this (and googling didn’t help.) * What I’m after is: the right hand link is just an arrow, and it takes you to the _next_ page, the left hand link is an arrow that takes you to the _previous_ page. That’s it. I could’ve fixed this in blogger in like 2 minutes, no idea why wordpress is like this. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [Chad Chadbourne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shireling/) * (@shireling) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-navigation-link-text/#post-8953492) * Hi [@corpsehands](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corpsehands/)! * Pagination can be a bit complex at times, yes. Before we dive into that, I’d like to offer another suggestion for reversing your post order. At the moment you’re using a URL based solution – if you wanted, you could add something like this in your child theme’s `functions.php` file: * ``` // Reverse post order function reverse_my_posts( $query ) { if ( ! is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' ); } } add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'reverse_my_posts' ); ``` * That would reverse the order of posts without your URL needing to have `?order =asc` on the end 🙂 * Now, for the pagination issue. Here’s what’s happening and why (if you’d rather not go through the background, feel free to skip ahead!) * The functions WordPress uses are `next_posts_link()` and `previous_posts_link()` The words **next** and **previous** refer to the next/previous _group_ of posts– they aren’t tied to any specific chronological order. * WordPress’s default is newest first – so the “next” group of posts is actually _older_ posts. * That makes sense to a blog, but not necessarily to the way most people think of the words next/previous. * To get around that many themes (including Illustratr) use the functions backwards– so on a standard blog, “Previous” actually means older posts, and “Next” actually means newer posts. * On your site, there’s an additional layer, because you’ve reversed the post order– so for you, the next group of posts is newer. * – Default WordPress function: **“Next” is** the next group (**older posts**) – Illustratr’s usage: “**Next” is** the _previous_ group (**newer posts**) – Your setup: **“Next” is** the _previous_ group (**_older_ posts**) * Short version: Illustratr reverses things so they make more sense, but you’ve now reversed them again so they feel backwards. * **Solution:** * What we need to do no is un-reverse the functions, so that “next” leads to newer posts. Illustratr’s navigation function is pluggable – meaning we can replace it with our own version. * Paste this in your child theme’s `functions.php` file: * ``` // Reverse post pagination links function illustratr_paging_nav( $max_num_pages = '' ) { // Get max_num_pages if not provided if ( '' == $max_num_pages ) { $max_num_pages = $GLOBALS['wp_query']->max_num_pages; } // Don't print empty markup if there's only one page. if ( $max_num_pages < 2 ) { return; } ?>