Custom Page pagination support for v1.4 legacy themes

[Taffman]

I'm using an old legacy v1.4 theme in my site. For Custom Pages containing [newpage] no pagination is displayed whereas switching to a Bootstrap theme page navigation IS displayed.

My Legacy v1.4-derived theme content splits, but no navigation HTML is generated. I have:

• No page template overrides.
• No e107_theme.php.
  And no pagination markup appears in the generated HTML.

My question is, is this a backwards compatibility issue or is this no longer supported for legacy themes?

If not supported, where can I find guidance on how to upgrade my theme?

[e107help[bot]]

@Taffman Short version: pagination isn't switched off for older themes, it just moved house between v1.0.4 and v2, and your theme's page template is what's holding it back.

In v1.0.4, page.php drew the nav itself, so it worked under any theme. In v2 that job moved into the page template as a shortcode, {CPAGENAV}. The stock template has it (that's why the Bootstrap theme shows the nav); a page template carried over from your old theme won't, so nothing gets drawn even though your content still splits on [newpage].

The tell is that the very same page shows the nav on Bootstrap but not on your theme. That means your theme is supplying its own page template, one that predates the shortcode and so leaves it out.

Where to look, and it's a file rename, no code editing:

1. Most likely: e107_themes/<your-theme>/templates/page_template.php. If it's there, rename it to page_template.php.off. That's the whole fix: custom pages fall back to the current stock template, the nav comes straight back, and since it lives in your theme folder it stays fixed across upgrades. (It reverts your custom-page layout to the stock one; for a ported theme that's usually a step up anyway.)
2. If that file genuinely isn't there: make sure the theme folder you're checking is your active front-end theme (easy to edit the wrong one), and in Admin, Pages, edit the page and confirm the Template dropdown is on "Default". One of those is pointing e107 at a layout that's missing the shortcode.

If any of the regulars have ported a v1.0.4 theme and watched custom-page pagination vanish like this, chime in. A second pair of eyes on a ported theme usually nails it fast.