Title: Advanced Pagination Settings Author: Tobias Bäthge Published: November 9, 2024 Last modified: April 20, 2026 --- Customize and enhance the pagination feature of your tables! # Advanced Pagination Settings The basic version of TablePress offers a helpful pagination feature. When this is enabled, the visitor can easier navigate in long tables with many rows. They will only see a few rows at a time and can then go to the next set of rows on the next table page, with arrow and number buttons. ## Feature description For many sites, a different type of paging controls might be more suitable. The “ Advanced Pagination Settings” features offers that. Below, you can find different possibilities. Note the highlighted paging controls for each example table: ### First and Last buttons The “Advanced Pagination Settings” allow turning on “First” page and “Last” page buttons, so that the visitor can reach the start or end of a table quickly. See this example: | Name | Year | Country | Sport | Time | Rate | Fee | | Eric | 1986 | Sweden | Soccer | 05:25 | 40.4% | $7.14 | | Julia | 1991 | Germany | Basketball | 04:45 | 20.3% | $2.90 | | Adam | 2002 | Indonesia | Golf | 19:40 | 43.3% | $4.40 | ### Page input field It is also possible to replace the number buttons with an input field, which even supports the up and down keys on the keyboard, like in this example table: | Name | Year | Country | Sport | Time | Rate | Fee | | Eric | 1986 | Sweden | Soccer | 05:25 | 40.4% | $7.14 | | Julia | 1991 | Germany | Basketball | 04:45 | 20.3% | $2.90 | | Adam | 2002 | Indonesia | Golf | 19:40 | 43.3% | $4.40 | ### Page select dropdown To offer the visitor with a selecteion, it is also possible to replace the number buttons with a select dropdown, like in this example table: | Name | Year | Country | Sport | Time | Rate | Fee | | Eric | 1986 | Sweden | Soccer | 05:25 | 40.4% | $7.14 | | Julia | 1991 | Germany | Basketball | 04:45 | 20.3% | $2.90 | | Adam | 2002 | Indonesia | Golf | 19:40 | 43.3% | $4.40 | ### Scroll to Top pagination And for tables that take up more vertical space than the height of the screen, the“ Scroll To Top” feature comes in handy: With this, when a site visitor uses the pagination controls, usually below the table, they will automatically be scrolled up to the top of the table. To try this, scroll down and use the pagination controls in this example table: | Name | Year | Country | Sport | Time | Rate | Fee | | Eric | 1986 | Sweden | Soccer | 05:25 | 40.4% | $7.14 | | Julia | 1991 | Germany | Basketball | 04:45 | 20.3% | $2.90 | | Adam | 2002 | Indonesia | Golf | 19:40 | 43.3% | $4.40 | | Kim | 1986 | Chile | Badminton | 12:50 | 85.7% | $3.47 | | Jackson | 1998 | Australia | Baseball | 06:09 | 66.7% | $6.85 | | Cade | 1986 | India | Badminton | 19:43 | 42.4% | $3.22 | | Keaton | 2003 | Costa Rica | Basketball | 10:31 | 40.0% | $5.88 | | Ray | 1999 | France | Gymnastics | 18:08 | 59.5% | $1.10 | | Omar | 1984 | Brazil | Tennis | 02:50 | 54.2% | $2.30 | | Maite | 1986 | Norway | Wrestling | 15:09 | 29.5% | $3.91 | | Jeremy | 1987 | United States | Fencing | 16:36 | 81.4% | $8.26 | | Libby | 1989 | Austria | Swimming | 21:19 | 33.8% | $4.71 | | Kermit | 1994 | Ukraine | Volleyball | 12:39 | 63.6% | $8.54 | | Madison | 1988 | United States | Boxing | 13:37 | 26.7% | $7.09 | | Francis | 1993 | Chile | Volleyball | 21:02 | 87.5% | $6.29 | ### A “Show more” button to load more data According to [some usability studies](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/pagination-infinite-scrolling-load-more-buttons/) a “Show more” button can be superior to pagination when it comes to displaying multiple table rows on one page. It is simple to use and allows user to compare records more easily because new rows are added to the end of the list. | Name | Year | Country | Sport | Time | Rate | Fee | | Eric | 1986 | Sweden | Soccer | 05:25 | 40.4% | $7.14 | | Julia | 1991 | Germany | Basketball | 04:45 | 20.3% | $2.90 | | Adam | 2002 | Indonesia | Golf | 19:40 | 43.3% | $4.40 | | Kim | 1986 | Chile | Badminton | 12:50 | 85.7% | $3.47 | | Jackson | 1998 | Australia | Baseball | 06:09 | 66.7% | $6.85 | [Use this feature with a TablePress Premium plan today](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md) ## Usage instructions To use these features with your tables, activate the “Advanced Pagination Settings” feature module on the “Modules” screen of TablePress Pro or TablePress Max. Then, configure the desired options in the “Advanced Pagination Settings” section on the table’s “Edit” screen. ![Screenshot of the "Advanced Pagination Settings" configuration section in the TablePress Premium versions.](https://tablepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ advanced-pagination-settings.png) The “Advanced Pagination Settings” configuration section in the TablePress Premium versions. ## Configuration parameters To configure this module’s features, you can also use these [configuration parameters](https://tablepress.org/faq/configuration-parameter-reference/) in the “TablePress Table” [block](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-tablepress-table-block/), the Elementor widget, or in the [Shortcode](https://tablepress.org/faq/documentation-shortcode-table/) that you are using to embed the table: | Module | Slug | | Configuration parameter | Name | Description | Type | Default value | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_firstlast | Pagination First/Last Buttons | Turns on “First” and “Last” buttons (« and »). | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_previousnext | Pagination Previous/Next Buttons | Turns on “Previous” and “Next” buttons (‹ and ›). | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `true` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_numbers | Pagination Page Numbers | Turns on Page Number buttons. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `true` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_input | Pagination Page Input Field | Adds an input field to jump to a specific page. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_select | Pagination Page Select Dropdown | Adds a select dropdown to jump to a specific page. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_input_pageof | Pagination “page of” text | Adds a “page of” text “/N” after the input. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `true` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_buttons | Pagination number of buttons | The number of buttons to show in the pagination. | integer | `7` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_boundarynumbers | Pagination boundary buttons | Whether to always show the first and last number buttons. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `true` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_loadmore_button | Pagination “Show More” button | Whether to show a “Show More” button that loads more rows instead of classical pagination. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_scrolltotop | Pagination Scroll to Top | Whether to scroll to the top of the table when the visitor goes to a different table page. | boolean (`true` or `false`) | `false` | | Advanced Pagination Settings | datatables-pagination | | datatables_pagination_scrolltotop_offset | Pagination Scroll to Top offset | The offset in pixels that defines the scroll position. | integer | `10` | The “Advanced Pagination Settings” feature module is part of the [**TablePress Premium plans**](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md). **On this page** 1. [Feature description](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#feature-description) 2. a. [First and Last buttons](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#first-last-buttons) b. [Page input field](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#page-input-field) c. [Page select dropdown](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#page-select-dropdown) d. [Scroll to Top pagination](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#scroll-to-top-pagination) e. [A “Show more” button to load more data](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#show-more-button) 3. [Usage instructions](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#instructions) 4. [Configuration parameters](https://tablepress.org/modules/datatables-pagination/#configuration)