Where it shows how many page there are in a discussion/forum. etc, is there a way to limit the number of boxes that show?
Possibly show the just 5 pages around the page you are on?

In default version, there's no way and I don't understand the sense of it?..
It's all about your content, positions in search engines, and profits.
If you would like to disable showing of older topics, create some forum naming it "expired" topics, and move all expired topics to there, or just remove them completely from the forum, so they don't take space.

I think I have not explained myself well...

When a thread has a lot of pages, the list of page number boxes gets split, with '...' between the first pages, and the last.
But, the total number of pages in a forum, at the top of the page, seems to always show all the page number boxes.
I'd like that to be 'shorter', in the same was as per the pages for a single (long) thread.

Does that make more sense?

Hi paul, - more input from me...
It seems the Extra Pages Navigation always has the first 5 pages, then the '...' separator, and the the last 5 pages.

Is there a way to limit this to the first 3 pages, then the '...' separator, and then the last 3 pages?

This is as I made made the forum 'Responsive' but the full 10 Extra Pages Navigation list it too long for smart phone screens.

Hope that makes better sense, and hope you can help ;)

Ok - found it!

;-)

You should either install the Mobile version for smartphones, which will provide different layout to fit to almost all devices; either modify bb_functions.php -> pageNav function, the output is regulated there. Resp, change the values of