ubaidrehman

Dear I have wasted my week on this problem, basically when you select static page as your home page in setting->reading of wordpress the complete behavior of listing things are changed, basically static pages are never meant for pagination the fact is when you call the $paged variable it will always return zero even if you define its value to 1 the pagination will just refresh your page, because its a page not a .php valid file page is already a taxonomy function that is called in index.php of main wordpress the function will always return same thing no matter what you do,

The work around make a index.php file copy all the content from that static page to it and then replace it with your index.php and select latest post in setting->reading of wordpress

Now if you really don’t want to mess with it, but still want to have the pagination then you need to write a small code of yours for pagination

basically home.com/page/2 will never work but homecom/?page=2 will always work but changing the permalink structure will change it for every one so we will create a pagination function that will call next page with home.com/?page=2

/* ——————————————————————*/
/* PAGINATION */
/* ——————————————————————*/

//paste this where the pagination must appear

global $wp_query;
$total = $wp_query->max_num_pages;
// only bother with the rest if we have more than 1 page!
if ( $total > 1 ) {
// get the current page
if ( !$current_page = get_query_var(‘paged’) )
$current_page = 1;
// structure of “format” depends on whether we’re using pretty permalinks
if( get_option(‘permalink_structure’) ) {
$format = ‘?paged=%#%’;
}
echo paginate_links(array(
‘base’ => get_pagenum_link(1) . ‘%_%’,
‘format’ => $format,
‘current’ => $current_page,
‘total’ => $total,
‘mid_size’ => 4,
‘type’ => ‘list’
));
}

if you include this rather than the current pagination you will see it working 🙂