Title: Page number string?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Page number string?

 *  Resolved [Jenst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenst/)
 * (@jenst)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-number-string/)
 * When the permalinks are set, the url could be something like this…
 * /about/page/5/
 * I’m writing a plugin and I need to get the page number, as a string (or alike).
 * I could use server variables and explode it but if there are a change in the 
   permalink structure I would get an error. Is there a way to get this page number?

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 *  Thread Starter [Jenst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenst/)
 * (@jenst)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-number-string/#post-710961)
 * Found it finally! The string is called $paged and the code you need is…
 * global $paged;
    echo $paged;
 *  [capzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capzman/)
 * (@capzman)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-number-string/#post-711245)
 * this doesn’t work on version 2.6.x isn’t it?
 *  [capzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capzman/)
 * (@capzman)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-number-string/#post-711246)
 * use this on page 2.6.x
    global $page; echo ‘page:’.$page;

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 * [number](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/number/)
 * [page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/page/)
 * [paged](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paged/)
 * [paging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paging/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [string](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/string/)

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 * Last reply from: [capzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/capzman/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/page-number-string/#post-711246)
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