Custom Page Template as front page

Try checking your site’s error logs for error messages. Your host should be able to help you in accessing your site’s error logs.

I’m developing my site locally with XAMPP on Mac, and as far as i know im not getting any errors.

Have you checked your error.log?

Its not creating any error.log-file, even though i have

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);

both enabled. And everything else in the installation works fine.

check if the get_query_var('paged') is set properly; alternatively check and use get_query_var('page')

Thanks, using ‘page’ instead seems to have solved the page navigation links.

But the site still loads the same four posts on every page. So when i click “Older posts” the navigation seems to behave correctly and send me to /page/2/ and displays functioning link to /page/3/. But the posts stay the same.

Heres the current code.

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Grid Page Template
 *
 */

get_header(); ?>

	<div id="primary" class="site-content">
		<div id="content" role="main">

		<?php
			$paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
			$args= array(
			 'page' => $paged,
			 'posts_per_page' => 4,
);
			query_posts($args);
			if( have_posts() ) :?>

			<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
				<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
				<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
			<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

			<?php twentytwelve_content_nav( 'nav-below' ); ?>

			<?php else : ?>
			<article id="post-0" class="post no-results not-found">
				<header class="entry-header">
					<h1 class="entry-title"><?php _e( 'Nothing Found', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></h1>
				</header>
				<div class="entry-content">
					<p><?php _e( 'Apologies, but no results were found. Perhaps searching will help find a related post.', 'twentytwelve' ); ?></p>
					<?php get_search_form(); ?>
				</div><!-- .entry-content -->
			</article><!-- #post-0 -->

			<?php endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

just tested in my local test site in a child of Twenty Twelve;

should work with (your initial code):

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
			$args= array(
			 'paged' => $paged,
			 'posts_per_page' => 4,
);
			query_posts($args);

btw: the query parameter has to stay 'paged' .

if not, check if any plugin might be interfering;

temporarily deativate all plugins;
if it helps, re-activate one plugin at a time to locate the interfering plugin.

Hey, thanks for your help. A sort of combination seems to have worked. Im running this now and everything works fine. I really dont understand why, though.

$paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;
			$args= array(
			 'paged' => $paged,
			 'posts_per_page' => 4,
);
			query_posts($args);

I dosent seem correct as the get_query_var(‘page’) differ from the ‘paged’ => $paged,

But it works.