Display only some of the page numbers by django pagination

Question

I am using the django paginator in the template. Its working ok, but not good when there\'s large numbers of pages.

views.py:

def blog(request):
             


        

Answer 1

I found the simplest thing to do was to create a pagination snippet that just shows the pages you want it to.

In my case I didn't want any previous or next links. I just wanted to always have a link to the first and last pages and then have the current page and the two pages either side of the current page.

My template snippet (uses variables from django-tables2 - variables will have slightly different names if you're using a Django Paginator directly)

{% load django_tables2 %}
{% load humanize %}
{% load i18n %}

{% if table.page %}
  {% with table.page.paginator.count as total %}
    {% with table.page.number as page_num %}
      {% with table.page.paginator.num_pages as num_pages %}
        {% block pagination %}
          

            
    
              {% if table.paginator.num_pages > 1 %}
                

                  {% for n in table.page.paginator.page_range %}
                    {% if table.page.number|add:'-3' == n %}
                      {# First page #}
                      
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                      {% if n != 1 %}
                        
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                      {% endif %}
                    {% elif table.page.number == n %}
                      {# Current page #}
                      
{{ n }}
                    {% elif table.page.number|add:'-3' < n and n < table.page.number|add:'3' %}
                      {# Pages around current page #}
                      
{{ n }}
                    {% elif table.page.number|add:'3' == n %}
                      {# Last page #}
                      {% if n != num_pages %}
                        
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                      {% endif %}
                      
{{ num_pages }}
                    {% endif %}
                  {% endfor %}
                
              {% endif %}
            
          
        {% endblock pagination %}
      {% endwith %}
    {% endwith %}
  {% endwith %}
{% endif %}

Examples of what my pagination looks like at different pages

Credit: this was inspired by @Pavel1114's answer.