You cannot. You are mixing two different notions and link types.
On your multipost pages (index, monthly and category archives) – you will always ahve exactly what you saw: page/2… /3… /4 etc. E.g. you have 45 posts and your blog is set to display 5 posts when reading > you will have 9 “pages” – it is called the paged view.
On your single post view (after you click on the tiotle=permalink) you have the type of links that navigate between the next-prev single posts, based on their chronology.
These two types of links use different template tags and they are NOT interchangeable.
Ok, thank you. Which template is used in /page/2/ ?
Well, here is the problem. If you go to http://jordanmeeter.com/ and click “day before” it brings you to http://jordanmeeter.com/page/2/ – Now look at the links at the bottom. They are backwards! :p I’m trying to figure out what template they are in and how to fix it, haha.
Did you read the article I linked to?
The answer to your question is there. And you need to edit the template tag > http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link
The problem is, that displays
“previous post — next post”
When I want
“next post — previous post”
Because according to wordpress, “next” means older.
No, “previous” (in time) means older. Previous always points to the posts the were publish earlier in time; and “next” from that “older moment in the time” comes back – through next – to the present day.
Your problem is you put the labels in the wrong way; see the article in the Codex.
On a semi-related note, on my site, I can change the labels well enough, but then I’ve got something like “Newer >> | << Older” when what I really want is “<< Older | Newer >>”
Is there a way around this without having to hack any of the core files? Thanks!
Also, just for kicks, I removed my custom labels, and the default labels are in fact backwards; that is, WP assigns “Next Page >>” when it means “<< Previous Page” and vice versa…
I’m using WordPress 2.3.2, FYI.
