Loop with multiple post types not rendering archive pages

  • Resolved Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    First off, the website I’m referring to is http://floridanavs.org/blog/.

    I’m creating a loop for this blog that includes multiple post types. All the following code is within home.php (rather than index.php). 

    query_posts( array(
     		'post_type' => array( 'post', 'flnavs_podcast', 'flnavs_video', 'flnavs_resources' ) )
	 		);
			if ( have_posts() ) : $count = 0;
				while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $count++;
					get_template_part( 'loop', get_post_format() );
				endwhile;
			else: ?>
				<div class="post">
					<h2 class="title">
						<?php _e('Sorry!','standardtheme'); ?>
					</h2>
					<p>
						<?php _e('Whoops! Something broke. Please try again!','standardtheme'); ?>
					</p>
				</div>
			<?php endif;
			// Function that handles output of pagination
			standard_pagination(); ?>

    This loop will successfully display the first 10 posts (as defined in the Reading panel in Settings) but when I click on Older Posts I get a 404 error. I’ve tried using WP_Query instead of query_posts but the same error occurs. Any idea what’s going wrong?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Try replacing:

    query_posts( array(
     		'post_type' => array( 'post', 'flnavs_podcast', 'flnavs_video', 'flnavs_resources' ) )
	 		);

    with:

    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args= array(
	'post_type' => array( 'post', 'flnavs_podcast', 'flnavs_video', 'flnavs_resources' ),
	'paged' => $paged
);
query_posts($args);
    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that didn’t fix the problem. I should have mentioned that I’d tried that solution before. Perhaps it’s needed in the final product but something else is missing too.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Have you tried looking at the standard_pagination() function?

    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Yes. It looks pretty innocuous. It also performs just fine on other archive pages (category, author, etc.). 

    function standard_pagination() { ?>
		<div class="more_entries">
        	<div class="next-posts fl"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Posts') ?></div>
		<div class="prev-posts fr"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Posts &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>
<?php } ?>
    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    What happens if you remove the custom query in home.php?

    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Well, there are only 9 posts in the default post type, but after adjusting the settings panel to display 5 posts per page both the blog and first archive page render properly.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    So it sounds like there’s a problem with your custom post types. Check that you have the correct names in that custom query

    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    The names are correct. I used the $post_type parameter I defined for each custom post type. I’ve had no problem getting each post type to appear on the first page of the blog, so I know I’ve gotten the names correct all this time.

    I just stumbled across something really strange. Like I said, I altered the number of posts per page from 10 to 5. I tried going to the second page of the blog using those settings and it loaded successfully. But then I tried to go to the third page and I received a 404. Just to test things further I switched the posts per page from 5 to 3. I can load the first, second, and third pages of the blog, then I receive a 404 when I try to load the fourth. So, I can load no more than 10 posts, and it’ll load fewer than that if the display setting doesn’t divide evenly into ten.

    I’m completely baffled now.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Unfortunately, after trying both your suggestions I’m still seeing the same problem.

    racer x

    (@racer-x-1)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Out of curiosity, what happens if you place the number of posts right into the query rather than using the settings?

    ‘posts_per_page’ => 3

    I have seen other similar posts here and that seemed to work.

    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for replying, racer x.

    Unfortunately that did not fix the issue I’m having, but it is responding differently than before. No matter what I set posts_per_page to I’m able to load the first three pages of posts before returning a 404.

    Thread Starter Andrew Ledwith

    (@jaledwith)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Okay, out of sheer frustration I decided to go about the problem an entirely different way. I scrapped everything I’d changed in home.php and used the default loop. Then, in my functionality plugin, I added the following:

    function my_get_posts( $query ) {
	if ( is_home() && $query->is_main_query() )
		$query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'flnavs_podcast', 'flnavs_video', 'flnavs_resources' ) );
	return $query;
}
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_get_posts' );

    It achieves the desired results. Thanks to all who helped me try to figure this mess out.

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