Page navigation doesn't show when query category
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**Problem**:
when I do http://www.example.com?cat=4 or choose category through custom menu or from category widget it shows only first page without navigation at the bottom, where it supposed to be. It’s the same if I use index.php or category-slug.php as template. For test, when I do http://www.example.com?year=2012 it works. Also, http://www.example.com?cat=4&paged=2 works. So it must be something with categories.**My setup:**
Wordpress 3.5, Free WP tube theme, SQLite**Relevant code:**
index.php<?php get_header(); ?> <!-- code to get theme options and setup $orderby --> query_posts($query_string.$orderby.'&cat=4'); //in this case showing category with navigation works if (have_posts()) : ?> <?php $i=0; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $i++; ?> <!-- code for displaying posts --> <?php if($i%3==0) : ?><div class="clear"></div><?php endif; ?> <?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?> <?php $next_page = get_next_posts_link('Previous'); $prev_pages = get_previous_posts_link('Next'); if(!empty($next_page) || !empty($prev_pages)) : ?> <!-- navigation --> <div class="navigation"> <?php if(!function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) : ?> <div class="alignleft"><?php echo $next_page; ?></div> <div class="alignright"><?php echo $prev_pages; ?></div> <?php else : wp_pagenavi(); endif; ?> </div> <!-- /navigation --> <?php endif; ?>
Note: you can see I’m using the
&cat=4
in query. It is the same ascategory_name=video
because I want to show only videos on home page. But also, I want to make able to choose that category from custom menu in which case doesn’t show page navigation.**What I have tried:**
Making
$wp_query = null
then making new query before the Loop.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/next-page-navigation-doesnt-work.
Basically any variation of this<?php $myqueryname = $wp_query; $wp_query = null; $wp_query = new WP_Query(); $wp_query->query('showposts=5'.'&paged='.$paged); ?>
Doesn’t work.
Adding $paged as suggested by the creator of WP-pagenavi and forums:
<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; ?> <?php query_posts("cat=-11");; ?>
Doesn’t work.
**Testings:**
besides the simple ones in the “problem” part of the question i didprint_r($wp_query)
all the way to see where to problem starts and it starts right on the beginning, ie. when i putprint_r($wp_query)
as the first line in header.php. So, the problem is not in the custom query of the theme, am I right?
I did it for the working $wp_query and not working $wp_query then compared them.
This is the relevant comparison part of the code:
Working $wp_query:[category_name] => [cat] => 4 ... <strong>**//most important part**</strong> [found_posts] => 382 [max_num_pages] => 43 ... [request] => SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private') ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 9 ... //here shows code for some posts even if not displaying them, because they're not in the cat=4 or category_name=video
non working $wp_query:
[category_name] => video [cat] => 4 ... <strong> **//most important part**</strong> [found_posts] => 1 [max_num_pages] => 1 ... [tax_query] => WP_Tax_Query Object ( [queries] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [taxonomy] => category [terms] => Array ( [0] => video ) [include_children] => 1 [field] => slug [operator] => IN ) ) [relation] => AND ) ... [query] => Array ( [category_name] => video ) [request] => SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) WHERE 1=1 AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (4) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'post' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private') GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 9 ... //this $wp_query doesn't show code for the posts which are not from video category ... [queried_object] => objArray Object ( [term_id] => 4 [name] => Video [slug] => video [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 4 [taxonomy] => category [description] => [parent] => 0 [count] => 379 [cat_ID] => 4 [category_count] => 379 [category_description] => [cat_name] => Video [category_nicename] => video [category_parent] => 0 )
Also, from the index.php code
get_next_posts_link('Previous')
returns NULL.
**Conclusion:**
something is happening before the template files with default query, but I don’t know what. Can somebody help me to show page navigation?P.S. formatting doesn’t work, look here for the more clean version http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82313/page-navigation-doesnt-show-when-query-category
Thank for helping!
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