Sometimes clients come up with crazy requests “I can not go back to first page, this pagination is not good enough” – but this one was reasonable and SharePoint 2013 search is so easy customizable, lets take it as an exercise! Everything is a Display Template As the caption says, you can change almost every design aspect in SharePoint 2013 Search by changing a html file (or a .js file if you are on Foundation) – this includes the general rendering of the search results and with it the pagination.
// February 2014
Today it was time to update my SharePoint 2013 installation from March PU 2013 to August 2013 CU - mostly because the Search Schema changed under the hood and I wanted to try something out for the awesome Search Query Tool. Download Wow, 1.8GB patch – that is huge! Compared to the RTM version of SharePoint 2013 with 2.4GB they rewrote 75% - or the patching strategy is not that optimal.