Umbraco pagination

Question

First time Umbraco user.

I'm looking to add pagination to the following basic loop:

@foreach (var example in CurrentPage.Children.OrderBy("createDate descending").Take(8)){

   //Do Stuff//

}

Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

After a good amount of work and research, here is my final code for pagination in umbraco. Replace the examples with your stuff, and pageSize is the amount of posts shown on each page.

@{
    var pageSize = 8;
    if(Model.Content.HasValue("numberOfItemsPerPage")){
    pageSize = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue<int>("numberOfItemsPerPage");}

    var page = 1; int.TryParse(Request.QueryString["page"], out page);
    var items = Umbraco.TypedContent(Model.Content.Id).Children.Where(x => x.DocumentTypeAlias == "exampleAlias" && x.IsVisible());
                var totalPages = (int)Math.Ceiling((double)items.Count() / (double)pageSize);

                if (page > totalPages)
                {
                    page = totalPages;
                }
                else if (page < 1)
                {
                    page = 1;
                }

            foreach (var item in items.Skip((page - 1) * pageSize).Take(pageSize).OrderBy("createDate descending"))
{

     <div class="example-div">
            <h2>@item.GetPropertyValue("example")</h2>
    </div>
}

if (totalPages > 1)
{
    <div class="pagination">
        <ul>
            @if (page > 1)
            {
                <li><a href="?page=@(page-1)">Prev</a></li>
            }
            @for (int p = 1; p < totalPages + 1; p++)
            {
                <li class="@(p == page ? "active" : string.Empty)">
                    <a href="?page=@p">@p</a>
                </li>
            }
            @if (page < totalPages)
            {
                <li><a href="?page=@(page+1)">Next</a></li>
            }
        </ul>
    </div>
}
}

Hope this stops a headache for someone.