the next page thing lets you page back and forth through posts, i think.
as for the pages option, I believe thats for new static page support.
Before you go putzing around in the “pages” option, it is not yet functional. ryoken is right, in 1.2 you had to set posts_paged and add the links to the index file which, at least in my small mind, didn’t make sense. Now it comes that way (much easier to disable than enable).
I had to comment the code out below in my index.php template to prevent this from being outputted ‘ â€â€? Next Page »’ which also prevented the footer from displaying. Is this a bug?
<?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('« Previous Page'), __('Next Page »')); ?>
I’m having a similar problem- 1.3alpha version. With pagination set (limited to 5), the stock ‘next/prev’ tag produces a link that looks like:
http://media-cow.net/synd/<br%20/><b>Warning</b>:%20%20strstr():%20Empty%20delimiter.%20in%20<b>/home/rob1/public_html/synd/wp-includes/template-functions-links.php</b>%20on%20line%20<b>450</b><br%20/>http://media-cow.net/synd/synd/page/2/
(See it in action: http://media-cow.net/synd/ )
Leads to a 404. Oddly, when on a category page, the link also looks goofy, but does actually take you to the next page. (see it in action: http://media-cow.net/synd/archives/category/journalfen/ )
The tag is stock:
<?php posts_nav_link(‘ â€â€? ‘, __(‘« Previous Page’), __(‘Next Page »’)); ?>
Any ideas? (I am using htaccess for se friendly links.)