Index: src/wp-includes/post-template.php
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Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
===================================================================
--- src/wp-includes/post-template.php	(date 1511880693000)
+++ src/wp-includes/post-template.php	(date 1511898476000)
@@ -841,6 +841,8 @@
  *                                          Also prepended to the current item, which is not linked. Default empty.
  *     @type string       $link_after       HTML or text to append to each Pages link inside the `<a>` tag.
  *                                          Also appended to the current item, which is not linked. Default empty.
+ *     @type string       $aria_current     The value for the aria-current attribute. Possible values are 'page',
+ *                                          'step', 'location', 'date', 'time', 'true', 'false'. Default is 'page'.
  *     @type string       $next_or_number   Indicates whether page numbers should be used. Valid values are number
  *                                          and next. Default is 'number'.
  *     @type string       $separator        Text between pagination links. Default is ' '.
@@ -857,10 +859,11 @@
 	global $page, $numpages, $multipage, $more;
 
 	$defaults = array(
-		'before'           => '<p>' . __( 'Pages:' ),
-		'after'            => '</p>',
+		'before'           => '<div class="page-links">' . __( 'Pages:' ),
+		'after'            => '</div>',
 		'link_before'      => '',
 		'link_after'       => '',
+		'aria_current'     => 'page',
 		'next_or_number'   => 'number',
 		'separator'        => ' ',
 		'nextpagelink'     => __( 'Next page' ),
@@ -888,6 +891,9 @@
 				$link = $r['link_before'] . str_replace( '%', $i, $r['pagelink'] ) . $r['link_after'];
 				if ( $i != $page || ! $more && 1 == $page ) {
 					$link = _wp_link_page( $i ) . $link . '</a>';
+					$link = str_replace( '<a href="', '<a class="page-number" href="', $link );
+				} else if ( $i == $page ) {
+					$link = '<span class="page-number current" aria-current="' . esc_attr( $r['aria_current'] ) . '">' . $link . '</span>';
 				}
 				/**
 				 * Filters the HTML output of individual page number links.
