page navigation within category leaves current category

anyone? I’m completely stumped on this one.

bump… please anyone?

Alright, I’ve found the culprit. CForms.

After submitting a trac and help from a developer it was determined to be CForms.

I am resolving this and opening a new post under CForms.

What do you mean the problem was CForms? I’m having the same issue and curious what kind of solutions there are.

I had no specifics other than when I disabled the plugin, the inter-category page navigation worked properly. I notified the developer of cforms and he quickly gave me a beta which worked. The beta is now part of the stable release from a number of releases ago so if you have the latest cforms it shouldn’t be a problem.

If you don’t have cforms it might be another plugin stepping on the code. Disable all your plugins and check it. If it works enable one at a time (or small group) and test till it breaks. You’ll find which one is breaking it.

I’m having the exact same problem and I don’t have any plugins installed

I have the posts displayed on a “news” page which is actually the category.php page but when I click to see older posts it takes me back to the index.php page.

I’m using this for my navigation:

<div class="alignleft">
    <?php posts_nav_link('','','&laquo; Previous Entries') ?>
   </div>
   <div class="alignright">
    <?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries &raquo;','') ?>
   </div>

Are you using something different?

Many thanks,
Stumped.

Read Template_Tags/next_post_link

If I understand you correctly, your code should read

<div class="alignleft">
<?php prev_post_link('%link', '&laquo; Previous Entries', TRUE); ?>
</div>
<div class="alignright">
<?php next_post_link('%link', 'Next Entries &raquo;', TRUE); ?>
</div>

Thanks for the reply Heriz – I’m quite new to wordpress but isn’t that to display the next single post rather than the next “page” of posts? – I’m probably wrong on this though.

I tried adding the code to the page both inside and outside the loop but this broke the page.

Just to be clear – I have a category page, that’s displaying all the posts in the news category. The posts are limited to 3 so they should be paged. When I click “previous” it seems to go to the index page rather than staying on the category page. Also it says “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria”

I did see something that sounded similar at the bottom of here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks (Paged Navigation Doesn’t Work ) but I went though the fix with no joy.

Maybe I’ve set my whole loop up wrong. I have:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
 <ul id="news_list">
   <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
     <li><h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?></a> <span class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?></span> </h2>
	<p><?php $excerpt = strip_tags(get_the_excerpt());
        echo $excerpt; ?></p> </li>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</ul>
 <div class="navigation">
   <div class="alignleft">
    <?php posts_nav_link('','','&laquo; Previous Entries') ?>
   </div>
   <div class="alignright">
    <?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries &raquo;','') ?>
   </div>
 </div>

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

Maybe if someone would be kind enough to post their code I might be able to see where I am going wrong or if this is a HTACCESS problem.

Many thanks
Matt

Got it! I was linking to my category.php page using this actual URL in my navigation:

/news/

Really though I needed to go:

/category/news/

phew!