Pagination resolves only to 1st page

Looks like your theme’s index.php template file contains an improperly defined custom query.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts

esmi, first I just want you to know how incredibly helpful you’ve been to me on numerous issues as I perused around WP Support and saw your answers. Really, thanks for being so direct and helpful.

Okay, I thought it might have something to do with this, but I’m at a loss to fix it. I’m pretty new with queries. Can you give me an idea of what’s wrong here?

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Can you just post the few lines around query_posts (assuming it’s in there)?

These are the only lines that mention query.

<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query(array('cat'=>of_get_option('category_slider'),'showposts'=>of_get_option('postnumber_slider'))); ?>
                    <?php if($wp_query->have_posts()) : while($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>

Thanks.

Try replacing:

<?php $wp_query = new WP_Query(array('cat'=>of_get_option('category_slider'), 'showposts'=>of_get_option('postnumber_slider'))); ?>

with:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array(
	'cat' => of_get_option('category_slider'),
	'showposts' => of_get_option('postnumber_slider'),
	'paged' => $paged
);
$wp_query = new WP_Query($args); ?>

Hi esmi,

That did fix the pagination problem. However the slider now appears on every page and pulls the images from whatever page it’s on. I will try to figure out how to anchor it on the first page only. Any thoughts appreciated. Thank you again for your help.

That sounds like a theme issue. As this is a commercial theme whose template files are not freely available, we cannot help. You need to seek support from the theme’s vendors.
https://www.organicthemes.com/support

Yes, I appreciate it. Thanks so much.