Title: Pagination Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Pagination Issue

 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-issue-1/)
 * Hey all,
 * I’ve been searching the forum for quite a while to find the solution to this,
   but all the relevant answers I’m coming up with are not working.
 * I’m running 2.3.3, and I have the default settings to show posts on the index
   page, and to show 10 at a time.
 * In my index.php file, I want only 1 post from a certain category to show, so 
   I’ve used a query to do so.
 * The issue come in with going back in time – the “next_post” stuff doesn’t work(
   I’ve tried 3 different tags – all show the link, and ALL links lead right back
   to the one post showing on the index page.)
 * right now, I have this (cleaned up extraneous stuff because it serves only layout
   purposes):
 *     ```
       <div id="content">
         <?php if(is_home()) {
           $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
           query_posts('cat=1&showposts=1&paged=$page');
       } ?>
   
         <?php if (have_posts()) :  while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       	  <div class="entry">
       	   post layout stuff here
                 <!--/entry-->
       	  </div>
   
           <?php comments_template(); ?>
           <?php endwhile; ?>
   
       <p class="navigation">
       <?php previous_posts_link(); ?>
       <?php next_posts_link(); ?>
       </p>
           <?php else: ?>
           <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
           <?php endif; ?>
   
       <!--/content-->
       </div>
       ```
   
 * This is the latest version of what I’ve been trying. I’ve also had the closing“}”
   for the “if(is_home())” stuff just before the closing “content” div tag, and 
   I’ve also used different next/previous tags. But no matter what I do, the link*
   always* leads to the most recent post on the index page.
 * Would anyone have any suggestions for me? I just cannot get this to work at all.
   I’ve even changed he settings so I wouldn’t use a query – just set it back to
   default – and they *still* won’t work.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-issue-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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