I noticed this, and someone had the temerity to complain about it, but WordPress is confusing me. From the front page of the blog, you can go back a certain number of entries, and then there’s no way to move backwards in time, i.e. the “Earlier Entries” link at the bottom of most self-respecting blog/journal/whatever …
If I look at the archives they have the same problem — you can’t navigate earlier than what WordPress is apparently convinced is sufficient entries to display on one page. What gives?
You’ll need to edit your theme pages (i.e. single.php, index.php, page.php) to include this php code
at the place you want the links to appear.Check this for details if you’d like to customize the links: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link
Of course the comment form ate the php code, let me try again…
<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>