Posted 2 years ago #
Hey all, I am working on a WordPress theme. The site I am posting on for now is right here.
I am finding that when I scroll down on the main page and click "<< Older posts," nothing is happening. The address changes to "(website)/?paged=4," but all the posts on the page are the same.
Any idea why this might be going on?
Please paste all the code from the theme template file (probably index.php) that is displaying those posts into a pastebin, such as wordpress.pastebin.ca, and report the link back here. Maybe someone might spot your problem. Thanks.
Posted 2 years ago #
Do you have enough posts for page 2 and beyond? Set your post display to 2 per page (under admin/reading) or so and see if pagination works.
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks for getting back to me!
Songdog, I have like a bajillion posts of gibberish on the site, so it should definitely be able to pull something in. I set up the reading options to display only 2 per page and it still wouldn't show any back log.
Michael, here is my index code: http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1595592
The older posts works fine in the archives and under categories, so maybe it has something to do with the 2 loops on the index page?
Hard to tell... but might try this...change this:
<?php query_posts(array('post__not_in' => $ids)); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>to this:
<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts(array('post__not_in' => $ids,'paged'=>$paged)); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks for the help, Michael, but it didn't look like that made a difference. The only thing that changed is that when I click on the "<< older posts" the address always goes to "(website)/?paged=2," wherein with the old code, the page numbers had no limit.
Posted 2 years ago #
What two loops do you have on index? You need to run a new WP query to run a loop inside the main loop so they don't crash into each other. I run mutliple new queries on a page that don't conflict. See multiple loops. Maybe that's the issue....
Posted 2 years ago #
I think I do that. I start the second loop with:
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
<?php query_posts(array('post__not_in' => $ids)); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>If you look at my index page without any of the CSS or info pulling in the excerpts or post authors I think the loop PHP is:
<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); $ids = array(); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $ids[] = get_the_ID(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php rewind_posts(); ?>
<?php query_posts(array('post__not_in' => $ids)); while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Posted 2 years ago #
rewind_posts should work, but maybe try a new query, something like this format for the second loop (not sure if this actual example will work):
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query(array('post__not_in' => $ids)); while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?><?php endwhile; ?>
Posted 2 years ago #
Song, it doesn't look like that worked either. I don't really know php, so I am just closing my eyes and cutting and pasting things. Maybe I'll take a look into this later in the future.
Thanks for all your help everyone.
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