WordPress Clear Line Theme – Previous Page Newer Posts

30 Jan 2012

The WordPress Clear Line Theme has paginators at the bottom of pages, that have links to Previous Page and Next Page. Changing them to say something like Newer Posts and Older Posts is easy – you need to edit the following four files:

• archive.php
• author.php
• index.php
• search.php

In these files, search for the lines that look like:

posts_nav_link(' -- ', __('« Previous Page'),...

Edit each file and change Previous Page to Newer Posts, and Next Page to Older Posts.

Alternatively if you’ve got ssh shell access (and you’re hosted on a Unix-like environment eg Linux), you can run the following commands:

cd /var/www/wp-content/themes/clear-line
sed -i 's/Previous Page/Newer Posts/' archive.php author.php index.php search.php
sed -i 's/Next Page/Older Posts/' archive.php author.php index.php search.php

Of course before running these sed commands you should backup your files, in case anything goes wrong.