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Ok Fixed!
The problem was that get_query_var('paged') doesn’t seem to work when a page template is used on a static page on the homepage, So you have to use get_query_var('page') instead, but for some reason having this being called after the $temp = $wp_query; value was redefined meant it didn’t return a value. So I just had to move it up so it was called before the custom value was defined. Working code for anyone with the same problem is:

<?php
 $paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();

$wp_query->query('posts_per_page=5&cat=4&paged='.$paged);
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post();
?>

Then:
<?php endwhile; ?> after the post.`
Then:
<?php $wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;?>
at the end.

Full page code <a href=”http://pastebin.com/N0dEngEf”>here</a&gt;

This <?php print_r ($wp_query->query_vars); ?> was very useful in working out which variable was returning which value.

Thanks keesiemeijer for your patience and help.

Thanks, I did try with that in there but took it back out because it didn’t work, just put it back in to be sure and unfortunately still nothing.

Here you go.

It is a static front page, I tried that code but unfortunately still nothing. I tried echoing the various values on the page and

get_query_var('page') returns nothing, no value

get_query_var('paged') returns “1” on both the first and second page.

$paged returns 1 as well.

Would this mean that the code is right but something is amiss elsewhere?

also, If I change the else statement to
else { $paged = 2; }
It then loads only second page, and wont go back to the first, does this meant that the if and elseif statements aren’t being satisfied?

thanks for your help so far

Hi, Thanks for the reply, unfortunately still no luck, implemented your code as such:

<?php
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$wp_query->query("posts_per_page=5&cat=4&paged=".$paged);
while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post();
?>

But no change to the problem, still the same thing on first and second page.