Question

At the moment I have it set up so the it’s a span tag above the link that says ‘previous post’ and ‘next post’, the problem is even when there isn’t a next or previous post, the span tag stays there.

<div class="nextprev">
                    <div class="nex1">
                        <span>Previous Post</span>
                        <?php previous_post_link('<strong>%link</strong>'); ?>  
                    </div> <!-- end div nex1 -->


                    <div class="nex2">
                        <span>Next Post</span>
                        <?php next_post_link('<strong>%link</strong>'); ?> 

                    </div> <!-- end div nex1 -->
                </div> <!-- end div nextprev -->

How do I put Previous Post inside the php so it only appears when there’s a link to follow?

Answer 1

When using previous_post_link and next_post_link you can allow WordPress to control whether or not the chosen text is displayed.

Like this:

previous_post_link( '%link', 'Previous Post' );
next_post_link( '%link', 'Next Post' );

You can replace ‘Previous Post’ and ‘Next Post’ text with whatever you want to show up. Also, you can remove the <span> tags now. 🙂

Edit:

If you’d like to display the title of the post and Previous Post text, try this:

previous_post_link( '<span>Previous Post</span>%link', '%title' );