Michael Gareth Morgan

I run quite a few WordPress sites and one of the things I needed to do lately was to get the current page number in WordPress. It can be easily done. To grab the current WordPress page number just use the following.

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$pageID = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

And that’s all that’s to it. Then of course you can use simple if statement to do all sorts of things. For example, if you only wanted to display something on the very first page (or 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc) you can do this.

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$pageID = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
if($pageID == 1):
	// Put your stuff here
	<h2>This is only displayed on the first page</h2>
	<p>Wooooo</p>
endif;

Page numbers are simple in WordPress!

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