I’m trying to build my first extension but wanted to get some help from the veterans.

Basically, I’d like alter the {pagination} tag to make my own so that I can control the URL that is used for putting together the pagination links. Right now it defaults to the /index.php/template_group/template/ but I want to make it so I can have anything as the URL based on input.

So I wanted to created a tag like this, {exp:custom_pagination path="/blog/"} and it use my new path as the path.

I did some research but I’m not really sure how to approach making this work. I saw the hooks for the pagination:

weblog_module_create_pagination - (mod.weblog.php)

weblog_module_fetch_pagination_data - (mod.weblog.php)

But I’m not totally sure how to do this. Is there a guide to using these hooks? Is an extension the right way to go about this?

I can easily change this in the mod.weblog.php file, but I didn’t want to edit it since keeping track of edits in core modules and updates is really tough.

Thanks!