How to over-ride wordpress settings and include pagination.

what theme are you using?

have you reviewed
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pagination?
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts

Hi,

Yes i’ve read all those and a few other examples i’ve found online. The theme is one that i’m building myself yet i can’t seem to crack this problem. Some of the examples i’ve tried will pull the correct number of posts from the shop category, but when i click on the link to the second page, it just shows the content from the home page, yet the url is saying mysitedotcom/page2.

Very frustrating so any help would be much appreciated.

please post the full code of your category-shop.php template – please use the pastebin https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code

It’s as simple as this right now as just trying to get the code to work before i style it…

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="white-background">	

		  <?php
        $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
        $args = array(
          'cat' => 2,
          'posts_per_page' => 30,
          'paged' => $paged
        );

        query_posts($args);
        ?>

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

                                <h1><?php the_title() ?>
                                </h1>

 																				<?php endwhile; ?>

																						<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>    

                                                                                    <?php else: ?>
                                                                                    Sorry, there are currently no articles in this category.
                                                                                     <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

have a link at the bottom which allows users to click to page 2,3,4 etc

there should be an answer to that in https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pagination? …

consider to use next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() resp; or a plugin like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-pagenavi/

btw:
your template code is not complete; the loop is missing the endwhile; and endif;
review
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop
and possibly
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development

Thanks for the reply.

You may have needed to scroll to the right to see it but the code does include a endwhile and endif statement, as well as a link to page 2,3 etc using the posts_nav_link function. From what i read on the codex the next_post_link should be used on the post (single.php) code, and not a category like in this instance.

Anyway with the current code below it displays the correct number of posts, from the correct category, with a link to page 2. However, page 2 just shows the content from my home page, even though the url is reading mysitedotcom/page2.

Any help with fixing this is much appreciated.

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="white-background">	

		  <?php
        $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
        $args = array(
          'cat' => 2,
          'posts_per_page' => 30,
          'paged' => $paged
        );

        query_posts($args);
        ?>

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

                                <h1><?php the_title() ?>
                                </h1>

 			<?php endwhile; ?>

					<?php posts_nav_link(); ?>    

                           <?php else: ?>
                            Sorry, there are currently no articles in this category.
                           <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>