Why won't my pagination show up? (Custom Post Type)

  • Resolved Chris

    (@nutlog13)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hello, I have a custom post type that I’m listing on a page. Everything shows up fine; it’s showing the right number of posts, only the pagination won’t show up. What am I missing here? Seems like something small and simple I’m just not seeing:

    <?php
$postId = get_the_ID();
$args = array('post_type'  => 'news',
'post_status'          => 'publish',
'order'                => 'desc',
'posts_per_page' => '10'
);

$loop = new WP_Query($args);

while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post();
	$newsId = $loop->post->ID;
	$newsLink = get_permalink($newsId);
	$newsExcerpt = get_excerpt($newsId);
	$content = get_the_content();
	$smallContent = substr($content, 0, 300);
	if($newsExcerpt =="") $newsExcerpt = $smallContent;
		  ?>

	    <div class="row-fluid post-grid">
	      <p class="post-date"><?php the_date('l, F j, Y');?></p>
	        <h3><a href="<?php echo $newsLink;?>"><?php the_title();?></a></h3>
	          <p><?php echo $newsExcerpt;?></p>
	        </div>
	        <?php endwhile;?>

			<?php if(function_exists('wp_simple_pagination')) {
		    wp_simple_pagination();
			} ?>

    Thank you in advance for any help at all!

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  • The Grey Parrots

    (@greyparrots)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi

    Kindly change this part

    $args = array('post_type'  => 'news',
'post_status'          => 'publish',
'order'                => 'desc',
'posts_per_page' => '10'
);

$loop = new WP_Query($args);

    to

    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array('post_type'  => 'news',
'post_status'          => 'publish',
'order'                => 'desc',
'posts_per_page' => '10',
'paged'=>$paged
);

$loop = new WP_Query($args);

    Regards,
    PD

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@nutlog13)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi PD, thank you for the reply! Unfortunately that code is still not working for me for some reason.

    Does it matter that this is on a PAGE template (i.e. not index), or am I missing anything else? I’ve tried changing ‘paged’ to ‘page’ in your code but still no luck…

    It seems so simple but the pagination just won’t show up. Thanks!

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    what plugin or code is used for wp_simple_pagination(); ?
    does that pagination code work on custom post types?

    would the pagination link show if you try to use the generic WordPress functions next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() ?

    example:

    next_posts_link( 'Older Entries', $loop->max_num_pages );
previous_posts_link( 'Newer Entries', $loop->max_num_pages );

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

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@nutlog13)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the reply. The standard WP functions you posted give me an “Older Entries” link, which goes to the page /latest-news/page/2. However, that page 2 displays the same first 10 posts and won’t actually show any previous posts or pages.

    The plugin I’m using is Simple Pagination (https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-pagination). That gives me a “Pages” title at the bottom of the page, as in the function appears to be working, but no actual links to previous posts/pages. But I can’t figure out why the default WP functions won’t work either. :/

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    The standard WP functions you posted give me an “Older Entries” link, which goes to the page /latest-news/page/2. However, that page 2 displays the same first 10 posts and won’t actually show any previous posts or pages.

    you need to try to apply the fix suggested by @the Grey Parrots, i.e. integrate the ‘paged’ parameter into the query.

    your chosen plugin seems to work only with the default query, not with custom queries.

    alternatively, have a look at http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/ which is prepared for custom queries; see http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/faq/ ‘Does PageNavi work with secondary WP_Query instances?‘ – applied to your case: wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $loop ) );

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@nutlog13)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Ah, my bad. I had Grey Parrot’s query in there, but I had been trying different things and had changed ‘paged’ to ‘page’ (which some people on The Interwebs had said worked when using it on a page… but not for me).

    Anyway, changed ‘page’ in the query back to the original ‘paged’ and NOW your default WP prev/next pagination works fine. I’ll check out PageNavi as well; sounds like that will take care of it.

    Thank you very much for the help!

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@nutlog13)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Yup, the WP-PageNavi plugin with the ‘paged’ query did the trick. Thanks guys! 🙂

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