Title: Help implementing 'simple pagination' plugin
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Help implementing 'simple pagination' plugin

 *  [thintin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thintin/)
 * (@thintin)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-implementing-simple-pagination-plugin/)
 * Hi.
 * I’ve been trawling through themes and plugins for about a thousand years now 
   just trying to turn my post pagination into big buttons instead of the default‘
   easily missed’ text.
 * I think I’ve found a plugin that will do what I want but I’m having trouble locating
   the code that I need to replace in order for the plugin to work.
 * The plugin is: [Simple Pagination](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-pagination/)
   
   My WP site is: [http://www.tuckshopmemories.com](http://www.tuckshopmemories.com)
 * The instructions for the plugin say do this:-
 * > Usage for posts
   > In your theme, open the theme files where you’d like pagination to be used.
   > You need to find calls to next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() and replace
   > them.
   > Usually this is the loop.php file.
   > You would replace those two lines with this:
   > <?php if(function_exists(‘wp_simple_pagination’)) {
   >  wp_simple_pagination();}?
   > >
 * but I can’t find those files because my theme doesn’t have a loop.php file.
 * Help?

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 *  [staartmees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staartmees/)
 * (@staartmees)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-implementing-simple-pagination-plugin/#post-7518844)
 * You’re using the Ribosome Pro theme. Best is to post your question at their support.
 *  [rinivasu143](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinivasu143/)
 * (@rinivasu143)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-implementing-simple-pagination-plugin/#post-7518872)
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-implementing-simple-pagination-plugin/#post-7519028)
 * The file you need is whatever file causes the output where you want the plugin’s
   pagination to appear, regardless of what it’s named. There’s possibly several
   options, depending on the specific theme. One way to identify the proper template
   is with one of these plugins:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/reveal-template/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reveal-template/)
   [https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-current-template/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/show-current-template/)
 * These plugins only need to be active long enough to identify the proper template
   file.
 * If by chance the pagination plugin doesn’t work for you, it’s often possible 
   to cause links to appear as buttons with CSS alone. You may be able to find suitable
   CSS examples by simply searching the ‘net.

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## Tags

 * [loop.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop-php/)
 * [pagination](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pagination/)

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 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-implementing-simple-pagination-plugin/#post-7519028)
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