Category Older Posts Link Broken

Have you tried resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting via Settings -> Permalinks? If this works, then review Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

Do the category pages use a custom query?

Hi Esmi — I have this in my theme’s index.php:

if ( is_home() ) {
query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-18');
}

I think the issue is certainly permalinks. On default, the older / newer links worked fine:

https://www.retroland.com/?cat=3%2F&paged=2

Returning to what we normally use, %category%, causes the link to become:

https://www.retroland.com/toys/page/2

which doesn’t work.

Thanks for the tip… any ideas on resolution?

Thanks again,

Matt

Try:

if ( is_home() ) {
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-18&paged=' .$paged);
}

I’m also having a similar problem. If anyone has any ideas (I’ve read page after page on fixes, but nothing’s working), I’d appreciate it.

https://www.mileskahn.com