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Not only not necessary but quite a bizarre combination. Do you want a horizontal menu bar or a card layout? Pick one.

Not unless you post the relevant code that's giving the problem

You are currently looping from 1 to $number_of_pages when displaying your page numbers. What you want to do is loop from $page - 2 to $page + 2, taking care not to go below 0 or above $number_of_pages in the process. Get your range of pages to loop over with some simple math and the help of the min/max functions then loop over that range. $start = max(1, $page - 2); $end = min($number_of_pages, $page + 2); for ($p=$start; $p<=$end; $p++){ //... }