Pagination Broken :: Nothing Seems to Work

Here is the code:

https://pastebin.com/w37JT8B9

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Jack

try to set the $paged variable:

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("cat=$blogpage_cats.&paged=$paged");

Thanks, but unfortunately it’s still giving me the same five posts on Page 2, 3, etc.

I’m thinking I don’t even need the category selection part of the query, so, if that’s the case, is there a way to re-write the query fetch more simply?

Thank you for your assistance so far, Keesiemeijer.
–
Jack

If you don’t need the category selection remove the whole query:

<?php
        if (get_option('blogpage_cats') <> ''){
                $blogpage_cats = implode(",", get_option('blogpage_cats'));
        }
        query_posts("cat=$blogpage_cats.&paged=$paged");
?>

The string in query_posts() has an extra period in it. It should be one of the following:

query_posts( "cat=$blogpage_cats&paged=$paged" );

or

query_posts( 'cat=' . $blogpage_cats . '&paged=' . $paged );

Thanks to you both. I edited the query as Big Bagel suggested (no luck – still same five posts on every page), and finally ended up removing the query_posts() block altogether (also no luck).

I decided to go through and clean up what I had just to see if it made a difference. I didn’t catch any other obvious flaws, but I’m sure I missed something. No matter what I do it seems to show the last five posts on the front page, then when I click “Previous Posts”, the URL changes to ../page/2 but shows the exact same five posts.

Here is the cleaned-up code.

Any advice or direction is greatly, greatly appreciated.

–
Jack

Try these. Maybe one will work happily:

query_posts( array( 'paged' => get_query_var( 'page' ) ) );

or

global $query_string;
query_posts( $query_string );

If any of these get pagination to work, then you can then try adding back in your category argument.

Thank you again, Big Bagel. I think I’ve traced the problem to the template itself – the pagination (including your queries above!) worked as expected when I switched from the template I was using to Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven.

I really appreciate you and keesiemeijer taking the time and effort to look at the code!

–
Jack