Code Examples Using Different Next and Previous Post Link Parameters

This tutorial contains examples of code which include the 5 different parameters you can customize with both the next_post_link and previous_post_link template tags.

The 5 parameters are:

1. format – Default: « %link
2. link – Default: %title
3. in_same_term – Default: false
4. excluded_terms – Default: None
5. taxonomy – Default: ‘category’

Example 1

The 1st example shows the previous and next posts entry titles and links all posts in all categories.

get_the_post_navigation() and the_post_navigation() for navigation to the next and previous post.
get_the_posts_navigation() and the_posts_navigation()` for navigation to the next and previous page of posts.
get_the_pagination() and the_pagination() for paginated navigation between pages of posts. Uses paginate_links().