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+How to use django-pagination
+----------------------------
 
+``django-pagination`` allows for easy Digg-style pagination without modifying
+your views.
+
+There are really 5 steps to setting it up with your projects (not including 
+installation, which is covered in INSTALL.txt in this same directory.)
+
+1. List this application in the ``INSTALLED_APPS`` portion of your settings
+   file.  Your settings file might look something like::
+   
+       INSTALLED_APPS = (
+           # ...
+           'pagination',
+       )
+
+
+2. Install the pagination middleware.  Your settings file might look something
+   like::
+   
+       MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
+           # ...
+           'pagination.middleware.PaginationMiddleware',
+       )
+
+3. If it's not already added in your setup, add the request context processor.
+   Note that context processors are set by default implicitly, so to set them
+   explicitly, you need to copy and paste this code into your under
+   the value TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS::
+   
+        ("django.core.context_processors.auth",
+        "django.core.context_processors.debug",
+        "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
+        "django.core.context_processors.media",
+        "django.core.context_processors.request")
+
+4. Add this line at the top of your template to load the pagination tags:
+
+       {% load pagination_tags %}
+
+
+5. Decide on a variable that you would like to paginate, and use the
+   autopaginate tag on that variable before iterating over it.  This could 
+   take one of two forms (using the canonical ``object_list`` as an example
+   variable):
+   
+       {% autopaginate object_list %}
+       
+   This assumes that you would like to have the default 20 results per page.
+   If you would like to specify your own amount of results per page, you can
+   specify that like so:
+   
+       {% autopaginate object_list 10 %}
+   
+   Note that this replaces ``object_list`` with the list for the current page, so
+   you can iterate over the ``object_list`` like you normally would.
+   
+
+6. Now you want to display the current page and the available pages, so
+   somewhere after having used autopaginate, use the paginate inclusion tag:
+   
+       {% paginate %}
+   
+   This does not take any arguments, but does assume that you have already
+   called autopaginate, so make sure to do so first.
+
+
+That's it!  You have now paginated ``object_list`` and given users of the site
+a way to navigate between the different pages--all without touching your views.