I understand and I agree with your points. But I don't see a better alternative for pagination. You are right, when you are having thousands of pages, then Pagination becomes meaningless from a user's point of view (but not from SE). I wrote a pagination tutorial for WordPress users without a pluging: Paginate comments: http://bacsoftwareconsulting.com/blog/index.php/wordpress-cat/how-to-add-and-style-wordpress-comment-pagination-without-a-plugin/ Paginate posts: http://bacsoftwareconsulting.com/blog/index.php/web-programming/add-custom-wordpress-pagination-without-plugin/ Thanks for this great post.