How to change the position of the in-post navigation?

but they that this is a WordPress issue, because WordPress decides the order of these elements.

Yes and no. There is sort of a way to set an order. Depending on how the theme and plugin are set up can change the order.

A quick example of this would be the add_action hook. Let’s say your theme wanted to add some arbitrary CSS. You could hook to wp_head. Let’s say another plugin then hooks to that. It could potentially print another stylesheet before the theme does by using the $priority argument.

quick code:

// from plugin
add_action( 'wp_head', 'super_simple_CSS', 0 );
function super_simple_CSS(){
    // some neat code here
}
// from the theme
add_action( 'wp_head', array( 'Theme_class', 'custom_css' ), 20 );
class Theme_Class {
    public function custom_css(){
    // super duper neat theme css
    }
}

When the the wp_head fires it will print out the super_simple_CSS first and then the custom_css. If you wanted to change that you could do something like:

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'super_simple_CSS' );
remove_action( 'wp_head', array( 'Theme_class', 'custom_css' ), 20 );
add_action( 'wp_head', array( 'Theme_Class', 'custom_css' ), 0 );
add_action( 'wp_head', super_simple_CSS', 20 );

While it can be a WordPress related issue it also can fall on the theme or plugin on when that action/filter does fire. 🙂

Hope that helps a bit. 🙂

If you are referring to https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/

Taking a quick look it appears to be in:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shareaholic/tags/7.6.1.8/shareaholic.php#L103

It appears to hook to the_content via:

add_action('the_content', array('ShareaholicPublic', 'draw_canvases') );

If you are using a functionality plugin or a child theme you can add:

remove_action('the_content', array('ShareaholicPublic', 'draw_canvases') );
add_action('the_content', array('ShareaholicPublic', 'draw_canvases'), 100 );

To see if that helps. Unfortunately I’m not too familiar with how PageLines does things so I can’t be of much help there but I do hope that does help steer you in the right direction. 🙂

I think I know now. I want to say it could be in the way the theme uses two functions that behave rather oddly. The two are the_content and wp_link_pages.

I’m guessing the theme has something like:

// somewhere in the theme
the_content();
wp_link_pages;

So, what happens is anything that is hooked to the_content will fire in-between those two functions. wp_link_pages is what <!--nextpage--> is generally for.

So, to a degree the theme is what is controlling that. There is a way of changing that but would require modifying some of the theme’s files, which can lead to trouble if it does get updated. Creating a child theme would be the best route but that means creating files and perhaps using an FTP program.

In order to do so you would create a file where


the_content();
wp_link_pages();


is used and remove wp_link_pages(). From there in the functions.php file you would add:

add_action( 'the_content', 'add_in_post_pagination', 5 );
function add_in_post_pagination( $content ){
    return $content . wp_link_pages( array( 'echo' => 0 ) );
}

That is one way I can think of but, as I said, I’m not too familiar with the theme’s codebase.

Side-note. The above method is taking into account a child theme is being used.