Custom Taxonomies with Pagination getting 404, Page Not Found

i have the exact same problem.

any ideas anyone?

It turns out that I needed to set posts per page to 12 on the Settings -> Reading page in WP admin. I probably did not need the custom query, in that case either. Hope this helps someone.

Thanks a lot, you saved my day ??

Mine as well – thanks for posting your solution!

i came across this problem before and also came up with the same solution and i assumed the problem was related to my inexperience with custom taxonomies, however even then i knew somethin was amiss, because im certain i’ve not had issues with pagination using custom queries of custom post types without custom taxonomies (lol, say that 3x fast :P) … now that i’m again trying to get pagination to work in a Custom Post Type & Custom Taxonomy scenario WITHOUT editing the Reading settings (because i want to use Infinite Scroll JS with one post-per-page in my query), im running into the same exact problem.

ive also found a related post where the OP seems to have solved the problem, but i dont quite get the solution:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-navigation-problem-paged1-works-paged2-doesnt

OK :::

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

should actually be:

$paged = (get_query_var('page')) ? get_query_var('page') : 1;

see here:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16353/custom-taxonomy-not-working-with-posts-per-page-in-new-wp-query-pagination-probl

i should also mention that next_posts_link(), previous_posts_link() and posts_nav_link() all pull up a faulty URL and i had to catch this custom setup for pagination:

<?php // OK, custom tax's dont work nice with query_posts (i think) but they DEF dont work nice with next_posts(), previous_posts() and  posts_nav_link()
              // SO, got the custom page nav from here:
              // https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-pagination-to-a-wp_query-loop?replies=16
        if($taxquery->max_num_pages>1){
          if ($paged > 1) { ?>
            <a href="<?php echo '?page=' . ($paged -1); //prev link ?>"><</a>
          <?php
          }
          for($i=1;$i<=$taxquery->max_num_pages;$i++){?>
            <a href="<?php echo '?page=' . $i; ?>" <?php echo ($paged==$i)? 'class="selected"':'';?>><?php echo $i;?></a>
          <?php
          }
          if($paged < $taxquery->max_num_pages){?>
            <a href="<?php echo '?page=' . ($paged + 1); //next link ?>">></a>
          <?php
          }
        }?>

which i based off this semi-related support topic:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-pagination-to-a-wp_query-loop?replies=16

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@cornhustlah: Please stick to just one topic: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-navigation-problem-paged1-works-paged2-doesnt?replies=10