Change the pagination url in Wordpress (3+) You can put in a plugin file or your functions.php.

wp-pagination-url.php

<?php

add_action( 'init', 'my_custom_page_word' );

function my_custom_page_word() {
  global $wp_rewrite;  // Get the global wordpress rewrite-rules/settings
  
  // Change the base pagination property which sets the wordpress pagination slug.
  $wp_rewrite->pagination_base = "new-slug";  //where new-slug is the slug you want to use ;)
}

Ah is there anyway to strip the / before the page number? I am trying to re-write to /?=page_2/ and this method drops a / before the 2.

Well it works fine!!!

This is great, I am using on my home page with the slug home/page but have only just realized that it doesn't work on other pages with pagination. End up with a 404.

I tried adding if is_home but that broke the function entirely. Probably because that if statement doesn't work from the functions.php? I don't know....

Is there any way to have this affect only the home page?

Thanks!

@saladgoat Yeah, not sure you can (easily) have different pagination_base's for different sections.
I believe that pagination_base is more used to change the base path on the whole site. :)

@lauhakari I was afraid of that, but trying to be optimistic, thought I'd ask people who know way more about this than me....