Does anyone know how to turn on node pages using Xenforo?

[bennylava]

They're not much help over at the official Xenforo board, so I figured why not ask here.

None of my forum nodes have pages. So I have a lot of threads that users will not be able to access. As I'm sure you're all aware, you can scroll down to the bottom of any node (or sub-forum) and see pages. It usually looks like "2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... Last page"

This way users can check an older page and see all the threads there. My forum isn't displaying that. Does anyone here know how to turn it on? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Cedric]

Node pagination you mean?

 

[Bawse]

You can hide nodes from appearing on the forum list in the settings.

 

[Cpvr]

If pagination isn’t showing at the bottom of your forum nodes, but you know you’ve got more threads than what should fit on one page



Nine times out of ten, it’s one of three things:

1. Thread display limit’s too high — Check your “Discussions per page” setting in Admin CP > Setup > Options > Threads, Discussions and Conversations. If that’s set to like 100 or something high, and your node has fewer than that number of threads, XenForo won’t show any page numbers — because it thinks everything fits on one page. Drop that number down to something like 20 or 30, then go look again.
2. Permissions are off — Make sure the usergroup you’re testing with has permission to view threads by others. If not, the forum might look like it’s got one page when really it’s just not showing the other users’ threads.
3. Your theme is hiding it — This one’s sneaky. Some custom styles (or even a botched template edit) can cause the pagination block to not render visually. It’s still there, just not visible. You can test this by going to a node and manually adding ?page=2 to the URL. If it loads more threads — you’ve found the issue. Pagination is working, it’s just not being displayed.

Try these solutions:

• Temporarily switch to the default XenForo theme and check the same node. If the page numbers show up there, it’s 100% a theme/template issue. Easy fix — compare your forum_view template with the default one and see what’s missing.
• Still nothing? Double-check how many threads are actually in that node and what your per-page setting is. If the thread count’s not high enough, the pagination won’t kick in until it hits the limit.

XenForo doesn’t have a “turn on pagination” button, it’s automatic , but it only shows when those conditions are met. If you’re not seeing it, it’s always a setting, permission, or template thing.