Title: [Plugin: Simple Pagination] Cannot get pagination working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Simple Pagination] Cannot get pagination working

 *  [igor666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igor666/)
 * (@igor666)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simple-pagination-cannot-get-pagination-working/)
 * I have the following code in my pages.php:
 *     ```
       <?php
       if (is_page() ) {
       $category = get_post_meta($posts[0]->ID, 'category', true);
       }
       if ($category) {
         $cat = get_cat_ID($category);
         $paged = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
         $post_per_page = 15; // -1 shows all posts
         $do_not_show_stickies = 1; // 0 to show stickies
         $args=array(
           'category__in' => array($cat),
           'orderby' => 'date',
           'order' => 'DESC',
           'paged' => $paged,
           'posts_per_page' => $post_per_page,
           'caller_get_posts' => $do_not_show_stickies
         );
   
         $temp = $wp_query;  // assign orginal query to temp variable for later use
         $wp_query = null;
         $wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
         if( have_posts() ) :
       		while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>
       	    <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
               <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
               <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>  by <?php the_author() ?> </small>
       [/code]
       ```
   
 * It only shows posts from one category per page – but the pagination doesn’t show–
   after installing Simple Pagination I get the first Page icon, but nothing else.
 * Can anyone tell me where I’m going wrong?
 * Many thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-pagination/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-pagination/)

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 * Last reply from: [igor666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igor666/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simple-pagination-cannot-get-pagination-working/)
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