Page 1 is the same as Page 2 (loop problem in theme)

line 16 of your code:

query_posts('cat=-20');

try to change it ot:

global $query_string; query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-20');

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts#Usage_Note

Hey thanks for the reply however that didn’t seem to work :(.

Hmmm… this one is a noodle scratcher!

Try explicitly adding the ‘paged’ variable like this:

global $query_string;
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-20' . '&paged=$paged');

alternative:

line 16 of your code:

query_posts('cat=-20');

try to change it to:

query_posts('cat=-20&paged='.get_query_var('cat'));

Jomsky: Tried this and didn’t do the trick ??

alchymyth: Tried this and the result was a broken listing (no posts found).

I appreciate you guys trying to help.. wonder what it could be?

my bad – what i really meant was:

query_posts('cat=-20&paged='.get_query_var('paged'));

@jomsky
your idea is right – just the syntax (single quotes and strings in php) needs to be adapted:
query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-20' . '&paged='.$paged);

or
query_posts($query_string . "&cat=-20&paged=$paged");

Hey still isn’t working. What a bugger eh?

Hey, so the index.php that I pasted earlier also includes featured.php which has similar lines of code:

https://codepad.org/6teg10Xl

keep the index.php with the latest changes; and try to add wp_reset_query(); after the endif; of featured.php

Added modified codes but still gives me the same return ??

Anyone else want to take a stab at it? It would really make my day ??

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-theme-problem?replies=9

This is the same problem I’m having, anyone know how I can change it properly to make it work?

Thanks.

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