compatibility with display suite

Try create a custom pager in a block style instead attaching it to a node type, then in display suite create field block. This is a good workaround, and in display suite you can do what ever you want after.

This is what i'm doing for my gallery nodes and it's working great.

this is a great workaround for D7 as well.

@sw3b thanks a ton.

I found another way to work around this in D7, without having to do extra configuration.

Here's some code, which you can add to a custom module (just replace "MODULE" with the name of your module) which will expose custom pagers as preprocess fields in Display Suite.

/**
 * Implements hook_ds_fields_info().
 */
function MODULE_ds_fields_info($entity_type) {
  $fields = array();

  if (module_exists('custom_pagers') && $entity_type == 'node') {
    $pagers = _custom_pagers_load_all_pagers();
    
    foreach ($pagers as $pager) {
      $info = array();
      $info['title'] = $pager->title;
      $info['field_type'] = DS_FIELD_TYPE_PREPROCESS;
      $info['ui_limit'][] = "{$pager->node_type}|*";
      $fields['node']["custom_pager_{$pager->pid}"] = $info;
    }
  }
  
  return $fields;
}

/**
 * Implements template_preprocess_node().
 */
function MODULE_preprocess_node(array &$variables) {
  if (isset($variables['content']['custom_pager_top'])) {
    MODULE_add_custom_pagers($variables, $variables['content']['custom_pager_top']);
  }
  if (isset($variables['content']['custom_pager_bottom'])) {
    MODULE_add_custom_pagers($variables, $variables['content']['custom_pager_bottom']);
  }
}

function MODULE_add_custom_pagers(array &$variables, $pagers) {
  foreach (element_children($pagers) as $id) {
    $variables["custom_pager_{$id}"] = $pagers[$id]['#markup'];
  }
}

This has the added benefit of being an easy patch that could be added to custom_pagers.

Patch for 7.x-1.x-dev attached.