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lukewilde

I have tried using a few guides for pagination but i can't get any of them to even display the page numbers which i just don't understand... So i have resorted to trying out a plug in, which atleast shows the page numbers, but when you click on page 2 it does nothing. Can anyone either help me get pagination working without this plug in or get this plug in to actually work?

http://www.lsw-design.com/tf/Gridded/?page_id=8

cybershot

doesn't wordpress have it's own pagination? Have you tried the template tags? if the plugin you are using doesn't work, try a different one. There are lots of them. I don't know how to help you without you giving access to your site. unless you post code

lukewilde

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="pagename">
<div id="pagename-inside">
	<h1>Blog</h1>
</div>
</div>


<div id="blog-inside">

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<div id="content-blog">

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
	'paged' => $paged,
	'posts_per_page' => 5,
	'caller_get_posts' => 0,
);
query_posts('cat=-5');
if (have_posts()) :
	while (have_posts()) :
		the_post(); ?>
			
		<div class="post">
		<div class="home-thumb"
		<a class="post-thumb-a" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo getImage(302,302,"2");?></a>
		<a class="post-thumb-b" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php echo getImage(302,302,"");?></a>
		</div>
		
		
		<div id="entry">
		
		<div id="post-date"><span class="post-date"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?></span><span class="post-author"> By <?php the_author_meta('nickname'); ?></span><span class="post-comments"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></span></div>
		
		<h2 id="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
		
		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
		
		<div class="blog-readmore"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read more &raquo;</a></div>
		
		</div>
		</div>
		
		
		
		
		
	<?php endwhile; else : ?>
	
	<h2>Woops...</h2>
	
	<p>Sorry, no posts were found.</p>
	
	
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>




<?php wp_pagenavi(); ?>
</div>
</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thats the code for the blog page, been trying to find answers for pagination since i started learning wordpress and haven't found anything that works, or explains it in detail.

cybershot

in your code, you have query_posts('cat=-5');

I think it should be query_posts('cat=5');

cybershot

p.s also check out the codex for more on this

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts

lukewilde

If i change it to just 5 no posts show

cybershot

what version of wordpress are you using?

cybershot

also, how many posts do you have in the category?

lukewilde

i have 7 posts in the category, and it is the latest version

cybershot

so you see five posts but no pagination?

cybershot

try moving your

<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>

up before the

<?php endwhile; else : ?>

wp_link_pages must be inside the loop. maybe it's not executing where you have it?

lukewilde

tried moving that as well as <?php wp_pagenavi(); ?> to different places, and still not working, if i put it before the endwhile; else then the page numbers show after every post and still doesnt work.

cybershot

at this point, I would try a different loop


<!-- Start the Loop. -->
 <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

 <!-- The following tests if the current post is in category 3. -->
 <!-- If it is, the div box is given the CSS class "post-cat-three". -->
 <!-- Otherwise, the div box will be given the CSS class "post". -->
 <?php if ( in_category('5') ) { ?>
           <div class="post-cat-three">
 <?php } else { ?>
           <div class="post">
 <?php } ?>

 <!-- Display the Title as a link to the Post's permalink. -->
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

 <!-- Display the date (November 16th, 2009 format) and a link to other posts by this posts author. -->
 <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?></small>

 <!-- Display the Post's Content in a div box. -->
 <div class="entry">
   <?php the_content(); ?>
 </div>

 <!-- Display a comma separated list of the Post's Categories. -->
 <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', '); ?></p>
 </div> <!-- closes the first div box -->

 <!-- Stop The Loop (but note the "else:" - see next line). -->
 <?php endwhile; else: ?>

 <!-- The very first "if" tested to see if there were any Posts to -->
 <!-- display.  This "else" part tells what do if there weren't any. -->
 <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

 <!-- REALLY stop The Loop. -->
 <?php endif; ?>

try that loop above. You can see the if(in_category(5)) part of the loop. Try it and see if it works. If it does, you can modify it to show the amount of posts that you want

lukewilde

that loop showed the posts, but it just done what it was doing before, when i click page 2 it just changes the URL and not the posts.

cybershot

your problem is in here

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
	'paged' => $paged,
	'posts_per_page' => 5,
	'caller_get_posts' => 0,

if you check the url after clicking on the two, you can see the address is wrong. I don't know how to fix it for you. Sorry

lukewilde

Can anyone else help? Loads of people have done this in their themes, but i can't find an answer for this problem anywhere..

cybershot

okay, I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but chris made a tut that will most likely help you figure this out

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/91-the-wordpress-loop/

lukewilde

Thanks, i sorted it out after changing the part you pointed out to something TheDoc posted and it is working now finally. Thanks for your help.

TheDoc

Glad to hear it, Luke.

It really is way more complicated than it should be. But WordPress is still growing into a functioning CMS, I'm sure things like this will get taken care of eventually.

cybershot

what was the problem? Post the sollution for others in the future

lukewilde

I changed the part you pointed out to:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
     <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("category_name=somecat&paged=$paged"); ?>
        <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

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