how to get pagination for custom taxonomies to work?

OK, as I understand it, pagination is most probably not going to work?

I would settle also for showing all instead of using pagination…

It seems I have to do something with a wp_query, but I cannot figure out how to set this up to show all posts from a specific term on one taxonomy.

For illustration:
– I have 5 custom taxonomies (type, size, color, to name a few) hanging under Pages.
– The taxonomy page “size” shows a short introduction about sizes and then lists all the terms within that taxonomy.
– When a term is clicked in the above, you’ll get to the taxonomy-term page and after a short introduction I want to list all the Pages that use that same taxonomy term.

I have accomplished all of this already with the exception of the “list all”-part: only the last 10 entries show up, nothing more.

The code I have used is as follows:

<h1 class="page-title"><?php _e('Helmet Size: ', 'nzih'); ?><?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); echo $term->name; ?></h1>
<?php $categorydesc = category_description(); if ( !empty($categorydesc) ) echo apply_filters( 'archive_meta', '<div class="archive-meta">' . $categorydesc . '</div>' ); ?>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="taxo-helmet">
<div class="taxo-title">
<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( __('See details of this helmet', 'nzih')); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
</div> <!-- .taxo-title -->
<div class="taxo-thumb">
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
<?php the_post_thumbnail('carousel-thumbnail');?>
</a>
</div> <!-- .taxo-thumb -->
</div><!-- #post-ID .taxo-helmet -->

<?php endwhile; ?>

the result can be seen at https://bit.ly/cgfj0h

miraculously this morning I tried to implement the page structure again and all of a sudden it works! Don’t know what I did wrong last night, but it must once again have been a product of working too long and until too late

The code now is as follows (entire taxonomy-slug.php)

<?php get_header(); ?>
		<div id="container">
			<div id="taxo-content">
				<div class="pagewrap fix">
					<div class="copy fix">
				<h1 class="page-title"><?php _e('Helmet Size: ', 'nzih'); ?><?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); echo $term->name; ?></h1>
				<?php $categorydesc = category_description(); if ( !empty($categorydesc) ) echo apply_filters( 'archive_meta', '<div class="archive-meta">' . $categorydesc . '</div>' ); ?>
					</div><!-- .copy fix -->
					<div class="copy fix">
						<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post('orderby=ID'); ?>
						<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="taxo-helmet">
							<div class="taxo-title">
								<h2 class="entry-title">
									<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php printf( __('See details of this helmet', 'nzih')); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
								</h2>
							</div> <!-- .taxo-title -->
							<div class="taxo-thumb">
								<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
									<?php the_post_thumbnail('carousel-thumbnail');?>
								</a>
							</div> <!-- .taxo-thumb -->
						</div><!-- #post-ID .taxo-helmet -->
						<?php endwhile; ?>
						<?php if (  $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>
							<div id="nav-below" class="navigation">
							<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( __( 'More helmets', 'nzih' ) ); ?></div>
							<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'More helmets', 'nzih' ) ); ?></div>
							</div><!-- #nav-below -->
						<?php endif; ?>
					</div><!-- .copy fix -->
				</div><!-- .pagewrap fix -->
			</div><!-- #taxo-content -->
		</div><!-- #container -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hey there Senlin;
I realize that it’s been a couple of months,
but it might interest you to know that I’ve been using a plugin that helps accomplish exactly what I think you’re asking for (including the pagination).

Taxonomy-list-shortcode

I can use shortcode in my pages/posts like this:
[taxonomy-list tax=”Artist” cols=”1″ per_page=”15″ show_counts=”0″]
and it will show 15 entries per page (list of artists)

Thanks anyway bluekachina, it’s always good to have more than one option to accomplish things!