WordPress get current page number in Pagination

WordPress Supports pagination and has default functions which can be used to display pagination. For Example: In Blog page pagination is displayed by default. But sometimes you needs to add pagination to a custom template. In Some scenarios we needs to get the current page number in the pagination.

Current page number in Pagination can be retrived in the following way.

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
?>


Here $paged will contain the page number.