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Originally Posted by jreg81
Again, I'm not talking about the "geek's" perspective of the coding or WP defaults behind a website.
I'm talking about COMMON PRACTICE. What are surfers most familiar with due to how it's done on most other sites?
I know if I look at big blogs (non-adult), google, shopping, ebay, amazon, porn tubes, tours, the list goes on.....that if I want to navigate to older content or past posts, I am finding "next" or "page 2" or arrows pointing to the RIGHT...to get there.
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google - you mean search results? because google's official blog doesn't use pagination, they load more posts when you get to the bottom of the page. Search results are not the same thing as blog posts. On a blog you go back in time to see older entries, on a google search you go to page 2 to see the next page of results. Stop trying to convince me that a truck is a sedan because they're both vehicles.
same thing for shopping searches, ebay searches, amazon etc... first and foremost, none of them are blogs. secondly, you're not going back in time to see older search results.. you're going to page 2 to see the 2nd page of search results. Bloggin is completely different because you're going back in time to see older posts, and those who don't use wp-pagenavi or twitter style post loading, have "older entries" on the left, and "newer entries" on the right... with "newer entries" not shown (or greyed out) on the first page because you're already on the newest page.
Think of blogging as a hand written diary, only on the internet. When you write in a diary, you don't start writing on the last page and turn left to get the a new page. You start writing from the first back and go back to the left to see the older diary entries you wrote. Same concept with a browser's 'back' and 'forward' buttons. You click 'back' to view an older page, and 'forward' to get back to the newest page you were looking at.
Why is it so difficult to realize the difference between a set of pages on a search result that has no concept of a timeline attached to it (hence the "next" page), and a blog that goes from new posts to old posts (hence the "older" entries)?