I always get confused by “Previous page” and “Next page” on WordPress blogs. After only a little struggling, I finally got my navigation sorted out so that you can page through it using “Older posts” and “Newer posts”.

I added the following to my style.css:

.navigation { font-weight: bold; font-size: larger }

.navigation .right { float: right }

.navigation .left { float: left }

Then I added this to my theme’s index.php:

<div class="navigation">

  <div class="left">

    <?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older posts'); ?>

  </div><div class="right">

    <?php previous_posts_link('Newer posts &raquo;'); ?>

  </div>

</div>

Result: yay!