Older entries link not working

Not sure if I understand what you;re trying to do but try:

<?php if !is_paged()) query_posts('showposts=7&paged=');>
<?php if(have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags#A_Paged_Page

Hi Esmi, thanks!

What I am trying to do is to figure out why wordpress will not show me the next latest posts when I go to the “older entries” link. It shows me the same seven posts as the previous page.

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Because you’ve only asked for 7 posts to be retrieved?

query_posts('showposts=7&paged=')

Ok, well I don’t know php that well. So the ‘showposts=7&paged=’ argument will only allow those latest 7 posts to show up? And this loop wont display the previous posts no matter what?

What I want is to define the number of posts on this page, and also link to the older post that formerly displayed on this page. Older posts, previous page, whatnot.

I am doing this because I have a custom loop on this page, my “blog page”. The rest of my pages are set up by WP-Admin to only display 4 posts, as I want. So I am trying to find a way to define the number of posts to be displayed on this one page, and to feature a link on the bottom to previous posts.

Thanks for your interest.

hello– i am also having this identical issue. clicking ‘older entries’ shows the same entries. i have no idea why its not showing.

the /blog/ page is a Page with a custom template (called blog.php).

heres the loop i put in blog.php:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
 <?php query_posts('cat=3'); ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class=regular><div class=date><span style='color:#999; text-transform: lowercase;'><php the_bookmark_links(); ?><?php the_author() ?> | <?php the_time('M Y') ?></span></div><?php the_title(); ?><p><p><?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?></p><?php if (function_exists('sociable_html')) { echo sociable_html(Array("Facebook", "Twitter", "MySpace", "del.icio.us", "Google", "Mixx", "Digg", "RSS", "email", "Print")); } ?></p>

				<p class="postmetadata"><?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>
</p>
			</div>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

	<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

would really appreciate any help.

try and change this:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
 <?php query_posts('cat=3'); ?>

into:

<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('cat=3&paged='.$paged); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

unless youre female, then thank you so much!

one last question. if when i click on the comments link of a post from my blog page (my blog is category 3 only) and it goes to the single post page, and the links at the top for NEXT and PREVIOUS post appear, what code can I use so that those links ONLY show next or previous posts from category 3 (the blog) ?

thanks!

nevermind, found it!

<?php next_post_link('%link', '%title', TRUE) ?>

OK guys, I have the same issue. I have tried many things but I just cannot get it to work. I NEED:
– Previous entries and Older entries to be visible (I managed to achive it, but the next problem fucked up the things)
– The Previous and Older links go to paged=1,2,3 – for the 12 posts I have (5 per page), however I DO NOT SEE THE DIFFERENT POSTS BUT ONLY THE first 5 no mater whether it is page 1,2 or 3.

Please help!

Here is the index.php of the theme:

<?php get_header(); ?>

			<div id="main" class="grid_8">

				<?php $more1 = get_option('woo_more1_ID'); ?>

    			<?php query_posts('page_id=' . $more1); ?>

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

		<div class="entry">

        <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

		<?php the_content(); ?>

        </div>

  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

		<div class="navigation">
			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
		</div>

                <?php

        		if( get_option('woo_show_carousel')  == 'true' ){ include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/category_carousel.php'); }

    			?>

			</div><!-- / #main -->

<!-- <?php get_sidebar("home"); ?> -->
<?php get_sidebar("2"); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>