Grid Pagination

Adds native pagination capabilities to Grid fields in ExpressionEngine—something not available out of the box. It enables you to paginate rows within a Grid field, making it easier to display large datasets in manageable chunks. This add-on is free and supports ExpressionEngine 6.4 (and above) and ExpressionEngine 7.2 (and above).

Brings row-level pagination into Grid fields. Compatible with EE 6.4+ and EE 7.2+, it’s a lightweight way to enhance both performance and usability when displaying Grid content in templates.

Summary

Typical Use Cases

Long Grid Data Sets

• If a Grid field contains many rows (e.g., FAQs, pricing tiers, listings), pagination improves performance and UI by loading only a subset at a time.

Clean Front-End Output

• Display Grid rows in paged lists or tables on public-facing pages, avoiding overwhelming users with long scrolls.

Features

Paginate Grid Rows

• Provides parameters to limit and paginate rows inside Grid field tags in your templates, similar to how {exp:channel:entries} pagination works, but within a Grid.

Seamless Template Integration

• Compatible with ExpressionEngine 6.4+, including ExpressionEngine 7.2+.

Supports Modern EE Versions

• When you want to display the option label instead of its value in templates, append :label to the field’s variable. {my_field_name:label} This will render the human-readable label corresponding to the chosen value.

How It Helps

Improved Performance & Scalability

• Loading only a limited number of Grid rows per page reduces memory usage and processing time.

Better User Experience

• Both editors and visitors benefit from cleaner, more navigable data displays when working with large Grid datasets.

Simplifies Template Logic

• Instead of manually looping and slicing Grid rows, Grid Pagination handles the logic through intuitive parameters.

Documentation

Basic Example

{exp:grid_pagination:field_params
    field_id='4'
    url_title="{segment_3}"
    channel="blog"
    limit="2"
    url_segment="4"
}

{exp:channel:entries url_title="{segment_3}" dynamic="false" limit='1' require_entry='yes'}

    {!-- content output --}
    <h1>{title}</h1>

    {!-- image (GRID) --}
    {if blog_image}
        {blog_image offset="{grid:offset}" limit="{grid:limit}"}
            <figure>
                <img src="{blog_image:image}" alt="{blog_image:caption:attr_safe}">
                <figcaption>{blog_image:caption}</figcaption>
            </figure>
            {blog_image:grid_encryption}
            <p>
                {blog_image:test_grid_datalist:label}
            </p>
        {/blog_image}
        {embed="blog/_grid-pagination"}
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/exp:grid_pagination:field_params}

Considerations

Due to how ExpressionEngine parses templates (and/or my limited understanding of it) there are some key requirements to keep in mind for this Add-on.

1. Parse order is a thing, so the grid_pagination:field_params tag MUST wrap around the channel:entries tag and cannot be nested within.
2. Since the channel:entries tag can contain its own pagination, you should implement your pagination as an embed.
3. You have to add 2 parameters to your Grid fields for output offset and limit

Requirements

At least PHP >= 8.0 and ExpressionEngine >= 6.4 or >= 7.2

Tags

field_params

This tag is used to seed the offset and limit values into the Grid tag.

Parameters

field_id This parameter should be the integer value for the specific Grid field you want to paginate data from

entry_id The specific Channel Entry your Grid field resides in

channel The Channel short name to relate to a url_title parameter

url_title The url_title value for the entry you want (requires channel param)

limit How many Grid items you want per page

url_segment The number the pagination URL segment comes from. (optional, default is 3)

prefix A unique letter to differentiate pagination units. (optional, default is “G”)

Example

{exp:grid_pagination:field_params field_id='FIELD_ID' entry_id="ENTRY_ID" limit="2"}
Channel Entries Tag Here 
{/exp:grid_pagination:field_params}

Pagination

Used to output the pagination links for your Grid field. This tag uses the exact same pagination logic as regular ExpressionEngine pagination.

Parameters

field_id This parameter should be the integer value for the specific Grid field you want to paginate data from

entry_id The specific Channel Entry your Grid field resides in

channel The Channel short name to relate to a url_title parameter

url_title The url_title value for the entry you want (requires channel param)

limit How many Grid items you want per page

url_segment The number the pagination URL segment comes from. (optional, default is 3)

prefix The string you want to delineate your pagination from others. Defaults to G (for Grid)

Note that this tag uses the native Pagination tooling for ExpressionEngine, so all those paramters and tags work here too

Example

{exp:grid_pagination:pagination
    field_id='4'
    url_title="{segment_3}"
    channel="blog"
    limit="2"
    url_segment="4"
}
    {paginate}
        {pagination_links}
            {first_page}
                <a href="{pagination_url}" class="page-first">First Page</a>
            {/first_page}
            {previous_page}
                <a href="{pagination_url}" class="page-previous">Previous Page</a>
            {/previous_page}
            {page}
                <a href="{pagination_url}" class="page-{pagination_page_number} {if current_page}active{/if}">{pagination_page_number}</a>
            {/page}
            {next_page}
                <li><a href="{pagination_url}" class="page-next">Next Page</a>
            {/next_page}
            {last_page}
                <li><a href="{pagination_url}" class="page-last">Last Page</a>
            {/last_page}
        {/pagination_links}
    {/paginate}
{/exp:grid_pagination:pagination}